Carol King-Ries Wilmington University

Week 5 Review October 14, 2018

Time Account:

Wednesday, 10/9/18 9am – 1 pm

4 hours Materials Center

Thursday, 10/11/18 9 am – 2:30 pm

5.5 hours DVI offices

Total: 9.5 hours this week

58 hours to date

Overview:

I spent Wednesday of this week at the Materials Center with Rich, and Thursday at the DVI
offices. My time with Rich was spent talking about the project I would be doing for him, participating in
a volunteer interview, and learning to use my new laptop to do research. Rich has asked for four things:
to look for possible grants to improve volunteer services, to look at what other volunteer organizations
in the area are doing to glean some best practices, to review and recommend updates to the volunteer
application and handbook, and to recommend any improvements to the interviewing process. I will
work on this the week of October 15th.

On Thursday, I interviewed Rob Schmidlkofer, with DEP. It was very interesting. One of the
most interesting parts of that conversation was when we talked about the lack of gender diversity in the
program; and how people were assessed for readiness for this program. I only have three people left to
talk with officially, Jill, Matt, and Sandy. Hopefully I will wrap those conversations up soon. I have
already completed my agency overview paper. I thought it would be a presentation, but because the
course was switched to online, it is a written report. I will forward it to Elisha.

I am still stalled on the parent engagement assignment. I would like to meet with Erin, Shirley,
and possibly Sandy to discuss FERPA, and how I think we can change the project to meet our goals. I
also reviewed a great presentation from Shirley concerning Parent Engagement and transitions.
Task Assigned:

 Review volunteer application and handbook

 Given by Rich Huber
 In progress
 Look at other volunteer organizations program to discern best practices
 Given by Rich Huber
 In progress
 Evaluate volunteer interview process
 Given by Rich Huber
 In progress
 Review Parent Engagement presentation

Given by S. Bryson

Completed

Task I have assigned myself:

Research and understand FERPA regulations as it applies to parent engagement

In Progress

 Find my way around the maze of DVI offices

In progress

 Meet with Shirley, Erin and Sandy to discuss Parent Engagement and how to move
forward

Hopefully the week of October 22nd

 Research Volunteer support grants

In progress

Schedule for next week:

I have appointments next week and will be traveling on Friday. Therefore, I will only be able to attend
the Technology fair on Thursday in Dover.
People I met with:

Deb Bradl Social Services Administrator

Olu Ogunsola Sr. FAO

Melody May Independent Living Supervisor