National Activity Professionals Week

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Celebrate Activity Professionals Week, January 20-26, 2019. Every day, your activity staff members enrich the lives of those you serve throughout the year and promote the well being of everyone in your facility.

More Information about National Activity Professionals Week


It is www.thenaap.com for more information about the activity profession.

Linda Amoroso

Linda Amoroso, ADC

Public Relations Trustee

Greetings from the National Association of Activity Professionals

We would like to thank you for your interest in celebrating National Activity Professionals

Week, 

Our hope that this packet will help as you design exiting programs to enrich the lives of those

you serve and enlighten those you work along side of!! NAP week was created to recognize

the contributions of Activity Professionals in all adult communities. It is a chance for us as

Activity Professionals to shine our light.

This year, we are enclosing theme programming information which will hopefully give you

some ideas not just for this week but the rest of the year as well. Included a letter addressed to

Administrators that you can share to remind them to honor the activity department as an

important part of your community’s team. Samples of proclamations, press releases & public

service announcements, for the week are included. You can also find more information on the

Web site. Take the time now to plan for this very special event!

If we can assist you with further information, please contact the NAAP Office at (865) 429-

0717 or fax us at (865) 453-9914.

Visit the Web site

Programming Ideas: National Activity Professionals Week

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Courtesy of National Association of Activity Professionals

   

Educate and show everyone in your homes how your activity department

provides Oceans of possibilities for your Elders.

Programming Ideas:

Activities: “Oceans of Possibilities”

Educate and show everyone in your homes how your activity department

provides Oceans of possibilities for your Elders.

The possibilities of keeping traditions.

_ Talk with the Elders about family traditions and your facility

traditions

The possibility to win.

_ Have a special Bingo using pictures or words relating to

activities.

The possibility of making friends.

_ Have a tea,

_ create a “Getting to know you Bingo” (see example)

_ have a staff / Elder scavenger hunt (using activity items as the

items to find)

_ Starting a Post Card Pen Pal Program to write to Nursing Home

Elders in other cities.

The possibility to socialize and try new things.

_ host a special dinner party serving different kinds of food

_ Host a happy hour with different types of drinks

The possibility to serve others.

_ make Sandwiches for a local shelter

_ have a food drive (this time of year is usually a lean time for food

banks so they will appreciate even more)

The possibility to explore past interest and be creative.

_ Crafts

_ Creative Writing

The possibility to stay in touch with the community.

_ Plan out trips

The possibility to LET GO.

_ Be a kid again for just an hour or so ( see attached).

_ show off your talent & lack of at Karaoke.

The possibility to learn something new.

_ Learn how to write and say your name in another language

o Chinese http://www.chinesetools.eu/names/

o Hawaiian http://hawaiiannames.hisurf.com/

Just google “my name in (what ever language) then print

it and make it a special sign for them to keep.

_ Show them the world wide web.

“Oceans”

The Tropics

_ enjoy some Kona Coffee, Hawaii’s “Gold”

_ Use the web to learn elders’ names in Hawaiian and a few

Hawaiian phrases.

_ Learn the meaning of the different Hula Dances by the way they

use their hands

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110077/dance.htm

_ Dinner Party. adventure into Hawaiian Dishes

_ Try your hand at Pineapple bowling with a Coconut bowling ball

_ Have a Parrot Head Day. Play Jimmy Buffett, have “Changes in

Attitude” discussion group, Cheeseburgers in Paradise for lunch

and Margaritaville for Happy Hour

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_ Take photos and make your own Hawaiian Post Card

c

http://www.hawaiiandays.com/HDC/categories/cat_postcards.htm

has vintage postcards, and may grant permission (they did for me)

for you to copy and use their photos for backgrounds. Then cut and

paste resident photos on the computer (looks best) or by hand to

make the postcards

_ Have a luau with BBQ, have staff dress tropical.

_ Use fruit of the Islands, and make individual Pineapple

Shortcakes: twinkies, vanilla pudding, pineapple and whipped

cream

_ Don’t forget the Drinks of the Islands happy hour !!

The National Association of Activity Professionals

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The National Association of Activity Professionals (NAAP) was founded in 1982, and is the only national organization that exclusively represents Activity Professionals working primarily in geriatric settings. NAAP provides opportunities for professional development and personal growth through national and regional conferences that offer a variety of topics and numerous hours of education. NAAP has established partnerships with allied organizations, governing bodies, consumer groups, regulatory agencies, and provider groups. They continuously work toward uniform Standards of Practice for all Activity Professionals working with elders. For more information, contact the NAAP Office at (865) 429-0717, e-mail thenaap@aol.com, or visit www.thenaap.com.