The Oak Life Journal
Jan | Feb 2024
It’s 2024, and we want to come alongside you and support your home even more.
So this year, Oak Life is launching an all new series of online courses for orphanage directors and caregivers, taught by orphanage directors and caregivers.
Each course includes a unique Oak Life Suite of tools, from new apps to example documentation, that will help you put what you learn into practice, and immediately improve the quality of life in your home.
Our team is actively working on developing new tools for you and your team. Here are a couple examples of what’s currently available:
Writing Policies & Procedures
Resumen:
This course is fundamental for orphanage directors, wherein we explore the tools and abilities you will need to successfully write or update your home's policy and procedure manuals. Overwhelmed at the though? Let's simplify it together!
Oak Life Tools included:
Apps:
Policy Manual Creator
Procedure Manual Creator
Summary
Both of these Oak Life Apps are designed to make administrative manuals easy to create. One is for policy writing, the other for procedure writing. They both include:
- Easy creation of digital manuals for download
- Full example policies and procedures for each aspect of the home
- Save & Continue option, so you can write at your own pace
Volunteer Management
Resumen:
Design a volunteer program that works for everyone involved. We explore the policies and procedures necessary to protect both volunteers and children, levels and types of background checks, communication strategies to avoid conflicts, and much more!
Oak Life Tools included:
Apps:
Gestión de Voluntarios
Summary
This Oak Life App gives you the tools to manage volunteers in your program. It includes:
- Easy creation of digital files for each volunteer’s information
- Background screening suggestions based on the volunteer’s position
- Upload volunteer documents to their virtual file
- Keep up with volunteer availability, listed skills, contact information, and much more!
Attending this course gives you a one year free subscription to this Oak Life App!
Connect with Oak Life’s teaching team, and get real support and counsel on the subjects that impact your orphanage. We understand the value of practical help, and making each other’s lives simpler, and we’d like to do that for you, too.
What topics would you like to see Oak Life develop courses on?
2 thoughts on “Directors’ Courses”
The course examples are in Spanish only.
No English translations?.
Great question! Yes, they are offered in both English and Spanish. And we are working on our translation and web-design to limit the confusion. Our apologies!