Not Lost in Translation

At Wexner Heritage Village, Diet Tech Jill Krafty utilized technology to help educate one of her rehab patients. There is a large population of Russian speaking residents and patients within Bexley Ohio, where Wexner is located. While there are translators available by appointment, Jill went above and beyond to help her patient get the care and food that he needed. Jill utilized Google Translate on a laptop to communicate with this Russian speaking patient to get his likes, dislikes and weight information.

Diversity of The Moorings

The annual Holiday staff luncheon provided a great opportunity to celebrate the diverse backgrounds and cultures of our dining services staff. We spent some time discussing both the differances and similarities of our traditional holiday meals.

We also took the opportunity to pose for pictures that we made into a holiday card for our residents. Many residents commented on what a nice surprise it was to find the greeting in their mailbox. The staff was proud to brighten their day. We also displayed the greeting at the host stand of the main dining room.

Pajamas at Bedtime Program at Weinberg

Above is a photo showing the Morrison Team and the pajamas that we are donating to the Pajamas at Bedtime program. Scholastic Books is donating a book for every pair of pajamas that is collected. Residents and staff at Weinberg Community collected over 90 pairs of pajamas!

Spreading Joy through Holiday Greetings at Three Crowns Park

The dining services team at Three Crowns Park made holiday greeting cards and strung them to candy canes for all the residents and staff in order to spread holiday cheer throughout the community. The team also discussed the many different holidays celebrated around the world during this time of year. It was fascinating to learn about each team members unique holiday traditions.

The staff at Oakwood Common, Dearborn would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays!

Diverse Thought of the Week: Google

Throughout December, the Diverse Thought of the Week will showcase other corporations and their work with Diversity and Inclusion. Read down the webpage to see how their policies are similar to ours. How are they different? Do you find a new understanding from reading their meanings, descriptions or offerings?

 

Diversity in Our Culture and Workplace

 

Gingerbread Houses at Smith Village

This past December the Smith Village team worked together to create a gingerbread village. The cooks and utility aides creatively constructed a post office, a dog house, Ginger's Pub, a hospital, a church, and many other decorative houses.

The houses were on display in the main entrance area, where residents and their families could stop by and take a look. The team had a great time making their gingerbread village and were proud to share it with the residents.

Diverse Thought of the Week: ATT

Throughout December, the Diverse Thought of the Week will showcase other corporations and their work with Diversity and Inclusion. Read down the webpage to see how their policies are similar to ours. How are they different? Do you find a new understanding from reading their meanings, descriptions or offerings?

 

AT&T's Workplace Inclusion

 

Diversity Activity from Central Baptist Village

Here is the CBV December diversity activity. I took pictures of different groups of employees and made several Christmas cards to pass out to our residents. The employees were holding different signs in the photos that said Merry Chrsitmas in different languages. In most cases the aid could speak the language that they were holding. Also most of the cards were made for each unit with the employees in the photos working on the unit. The empoyees really enjoyed this activity, most of them saying they wanted a xmas card for themselves. During the CBV staff meeting today we will also go over the xmas around the world handout emailed earlier this month.

Diversity for November

 

Cardinal Stritch Thankful Tree

Here at Cardinal Stritch, all the employees wrote down on a leaf what they are thankful for.  A couple for example are, Family, Pets, Jobs, and Facebook.  From everyone here at Cardinal Stritch have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

 

The staff at Oakwood Common in Dearborn made a thankful tree.

The staff had many things to be thankful for.

Family, Friends, Health, Residents, Morrison, laughter, co workers, education, etc.

 

 

November Diversity Activity at Three Crowns Park

The dining services department created a "Thankful Tree" where employees wrote what they were thankful for on a leaf of the tree. The board was displayed outside the kitchen to celebrate Thanksgiving this month.

 

 

Weinberg Community's Diversity meeting in November.

The topic was: "What the Employees are Thankful for."

 

At Lake Forest Place, we had residents and staff write on a leaf what they were thankful for. Out of the leaves we made a garland and put it on the Komono Shelf, where we display all items of accomplishments.

Central Baptist Village

As a department employees wrote what they were thankful for during the holiday season. Each leaf from the employees contributed to the thankful tree. The employees enjoyed participating in this activity and some even were thankful for similar things.

 

Villa St Benedict

Here is our "Accumulate the Thanks" Board. It's located in our server alley and is up for the entire staff to write what they are thankful for. We're keeping thankfulness going throughout the holiday season.

Here is our diversity project for the Felician Sister Motherhouse in Livonia. We displayed a tree and created leaves with what we are thankful for during this time of year. We invited the Sister to join us and as you can see many did.

 

 

At the Indiana Masonic Homes we did a thankful tree. We had great fun with this activity. For the most part our team was thankful for their family, jobs, pets, certain foods and beverages. It was a very positive activity.

 

 

 

 

Diverse Thought of the Week: Campbell's

Throughout December, the Diverse Thought of the Week will showcase other corporations and their work with Diversity and Inclusion. Read down the webpage to see how their policies are similar to ours. How are they different? Do you find a new understanding from reading their meanings, descriptions or offerings?

 

Campbell's Diversity and Inclusion

 

Celebrating Our Diverse Contributions on Thanksgiving at The Moorings

Typically Show Time is a time to go over the menu, taste the meal of the day and answer any service questions staff may have. On Thanksgiving, we decided to do a team building exercise to change the dynamic of dining room. It wasn’t just informational, but a time to reflect, not just for being thankful for family and friends but also for their co-workers.

We gathered in the Private Dining room, stood before a sheet of paper that not only had their name on it but the symbol of TEAMWORK.

I explained the purpose of the exercise is to write down something kind and/or grateful for the people they work with.

They each moved the paper to their left until the paper with their name came back to them. They then got to read the comments that their co-workers wrote about them.

I received so many positive comments about this exercise from the staff but the most rewarding part were the smiles when they read the comments their co-workers had written about them!

Diversity at AM McGregor

This month, we did a "Giving Thanks" bulletin board. Attached is a picture. During Showtimes, we asked our staff to speak about some of the things that they were thankful for, and discussed them, finding a variety of things that are important to individuals and how they are similar and how they are different, showing diversity among us all. Then everyone placed their turkey feathers on the board, writing down what each is thankful for.

We also have a "Got Caught Caring Program" that coincides with our Hero program. Above is a picture. We recognize those that have gone above and beyond by placing their fish on the board!

Finally, we put up a display of "Amazing Paths" and discuss the different paths that each of us take to become who we are today.

Diverse Thought of the Week: American Airlines

Throughout December, the Diverse Thought of the Week will showcase other corporations and their work with Diversity and Inclusion. Read down the webpage to see how their policies are similar to ours. How are they different? Do you find a new understanding from reading their meanings, descriptions or offerings?

 

 

 

American Airlines: Employee Diversity and Inclusion

Intergenerational Costume Contest at Lake Forest Place

On Halloween Night Lake Forest Place held 2 costume contests. Employees wore a costume of their choice and residents got to vote on their favorite. Also residents wore their costume to dinner and the employees got to vote. The winner of the employee contest was the Penguin or "Happy Feet" and received a $25 gift card and the resident winner was a husband and wife team who dressed in a WWI Uniform and will receive a complimentary cocktail party for 6 hostessed by the Dining Services Team.

Diverse Thought of the Week: Diabetes Month

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Diverse Thought of the Week: Veteran's Day Quote

 

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Four Course Greek Meal at Indiana Masonic Home

The starter for our "Four Course" meal consisted of a kassen cheese pan-seared in flour with a red wine-balsamic glaze over the top, traditional feta and spinach spanikopita, ground pork and rice stuffed grape leaves.

 

The salad for our Greek "Four Course" consisted of spring mix, traditional Greek toppings and vinaigrette. 

 

The main course for our "Four Course" Greek meal consisted of beef tenderloin with a boursin cream sauce, roasted rack of lamb with a mint demi glaze, rosemary crusted fingerling potato in a puff pastry basket and marinated vegetable kabobs.

 

The dessert at the "Four Course" was Baklava.

Diverse Thought of the Week: Weinberg

 

 The staff at Weinberg discussed "One of Life's Biggest Highlights" for their monthly diversity activity. Each employee brought up one momentous event in their life, either work- or family-related. 

 

 

Foodie Penpals!

How fun would this be as a team diversity activity? Lindsay is a dietetic student at the Ohio State University and she runs The Lean Green Bean blog. Each month you sign up and send a package of local foods, healthy foods or unique foods to the penpal you are assigned to. You will also receive a package of the same kind of goodies to share with your team! If you sign up, be sure to send pictures to Be The Benchmark to be posted as a Diverse Thought of the Week!