The document discusses Murray Ridge Center, a non-profit organization that provides employment programs and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It outlines Murray Ridge Center's mission to assist eligible individuals in achieving greater independence and living fulfilling lives. A variety of services are provided, including adult day support, vocational training, residential housing, and transportation assistance. Social work practices at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels are also summarized.

1. MICHALENA MCCANN
Integrated Capstone Seminar
March 24, 2016

2. MURRAY RIDGE CENTER
 Non- Profit Corporation established to provide and
promote employment programs.
 Develops work skills and training opportunities for
eligible individuals who have intellectual and/or
developmental disabilities.
 Help individuals that have an intellectual and/or
developmental disabilities, achieve greater
independence, and to live fulfilling lives.

3. MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is to ensure the availability of services
and supports that assist eligible individuals in living
the life they choose; to promote their health and
safety; and to assist and support the families of these
individuals in achieving these goals.

4. SERVICES PROVIDED
 Adult day Supported
Services
 Vocational Habilitations
Services
 Family Support
 Supportive Living
 Group Homes
 Transportation
Services
 Special Olympics
(Sports)
 Residential Housing
 Early Intervention
 Community Employment

5. INDIVIDUALS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL
AND/OR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Diverse Populations Diversity

6. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MICRO
 Build trust
 Ask open ended questions
 One on one interaction
 Building boundaries

7. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MICRO
 Gained the clients trust.
 Applied educational experience and field work
experience.
 Independently working with clients.

8. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MICRO
 Professional training and
certifications
 CPR, First Aid, Crisis
Prevention Intervention
 Major and Unusual
Incident Reporting
 Computer skills
 Client focused
 Empathetic
 Active listener
Skills Strengths

9. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MICRO
 Finding clients jobs
 Utilize networking
 Providing Resources
 Helping transition
clients
 Providing all clients
with choices
 Introducing clients to
new environments
Supportive Employment Community Integration

10. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MEZZO
 Individual Service
Plans (ISP)
 Early Intervention
 Supportive Service
Administrator

11. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MEZZO
 Relate with my own situations
 Understand
 Provide options and choices
 Set goals
 Follow up with families
 Provide necessary resources/information

12. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MEZZO
 Educational
Background
 Experience with
diverse populations
 Utilize my own
personal experiences
 Energetic personality
 Passion to help others
 Ambition to strive to
make changes
Skills Strengths

13. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MEZZO
 Developing needed work skills
 Gaining self-awareness
 Providing information about resources
 Following up with families on progress
 In service training

14. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MACRO
 Identify services and resources
 Identify goals
 Provide choices to the clients

15. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MACRO
 Advocate for clients (job opportunities).
 Apply my education and field work experience when
working with outside organizations.
 Engage with Community Based Supportive
Employment sites.
 Apply my research and methods class for my research
paper on Customer Satisfaction Surveys for Provided
Services.

16. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MACRO
 Identify the clients needs
and wants.
 Apply field work
experience.
 Great communication
skills.
 Knowing the clients in
interests.
Skills Strengths

17. SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
MACRO
 Inform the staff how important Supportive employment
to help them encourage the clients to be community
based.
 Provide the clients with choices.
 Network with companies to find job opportunities for
individuals with intellectual disability and developmental
disabilities.

18. COMMUNICATION
VERBAL
 Experienced
 Non- verbal communication skills
 Calm monotone voice
 Organized

19. COMMUNICATION
VERBAL
 Confident
 Professional tone
 Triggers/ eye contact
 Non verbal communication skill

20. COMMUNICATION
VERBAL
 Person Oriented
 Engage in conversations
 Professional attitude
 Interpret facial
expressions
 Great personality
 Communication skills
Skills Strengths

21. COMMUNICATION
VERBAL
 Continue to work on improvements on fine and
gross motor skills for greater indepence
 Attend education workshops
 Picture exchange communication
 Read more books and professional journals
 Consult with other professionals

22. COMMUNICATION
WRITTEN SKILLS
 Horrific
 Constructive feedback
 Work in progress

23. COMMUNICATION
WRITTEN SKILLS
 Improved
 Organized
 Structured
 Work shops, tutoring center

24. COMMUNICATION
WRITTEN SKILLS
 Behavioral goals
 Progress notes
 Emails
 Confident
Skills Strengths

25. COMMUNICATION
WRITTEN SKILLS
 Organization development
 Pre- writing
 Drafting
 Making revisions

26. SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND
ETHICS
 Values – service, social justice, dignity and worth of the
person, importance of human relations, integrity,
competence.
Ethics- responsibilities to clients; responsibilities to
colleagues, practice settings, ethical responsibilities as
professionals, responsibilities to the social work
professions and responsibilities to the boarder of society.

27. SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND
ETHICS
 Importance of Commitment to clients
 Informed Consent forms
 Cultural Competence and Social Diversity
 Confidentiality
 Respect

28. SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND
ETHICS
 Good listening skills
 Sense of observation
 Empathetic
 Establishing trust with
clients
 Professional attitude
 Understanding
Skills Strengths

29. SOCIAL WORK VALUES AND
ETHICS
 Continue education and staff development.
 Reviewing relevant ethical standards.
 Consulting colleagues and staff on how important
the Code of Ethic is, and how we can maintain the
professionalism within the work environment.
 Weekly meetings with staff to discuss the
responsibilities to maintain our client satisfaction.

30. SELF-AWARENESS

31. SELF- AWARENESS
 Believed in my self, became confident and
started using my abilities to the best of my
advantages.
 Organized my thoughts, personal life, work and
school,

32. SELF- AWARENESS
 Motivated
 Understanding
 Self Reflections
 Rebuild
Skills Strengths

33. SELF- AWARENESS
Promote Self- Awareness
Educate staff and clients and
families

34. CRITICAL THINKING
 Struggled with engaging in reflective and independent
thinking.
 Un-sure about making decisions.
 Exploring new resources and information.
 Uncomfortable at taking on tasks with out supervision or
other staff present.

35. CRITICAL THINKING
 Understanding Logical connections between Ideas.
 Identify and evaluate escalated situations.
 Solve problems and identify them.
 Give my input, and beliefs in certain situations I can
relate to.

36. CRITICAL THINKING
 Active listener
 Able to understand verbal
and non verbal
communication
 Thinking outside the box
to accommodate clients
needs, and wants.
 Creative
Skills Strengths

37. CRITICAL THINKING
 Changing old habits
 Finding new resources and ways to help the clients.
 Networking, and working together as a team, to come up
with goals and interventions.
 Continue having a positive attitude and staying focused.

38. DIVERSITY

39. DIVERSITY
NASW Code of Ethics
1.05 Cultural Competence and Social Diversity
 Social Workers should obtain education about and seek
to understand the nature of social diversity and
oppression with respect to race, ethnicity, national origin,
color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or
expression, age, martial status, political belief, religion,
immigration status and mental or physical disability.

40. DIVERSITY

41. DIVERSITY

42. SOCIAL JUSTICE
 NASW Code of Ethics
 Equal opportunities
 Resources and services
 Provided choices

43. SOCIAL JUSTICE
 understanding the organized structure and using positive
empowerments to help clients.
 Applied existing legal principles to field that has helped
me voice changes, to help protect the clients that are
powerless.
 Referring clients/ families to the correct departments.
 Make sure the client’s wellbeing is being met.

44. SOCIAL JUSTICE
 Hand over hand
 Verbal prompts
 Offering choices
 Focused on developing
strengths with the
clients
 Consistent and
reinforce learning
Skills Strengths

45. SOCIAL JUSTICE
Educational plans that are in place to help maintain social
justice in the agency and meeting the clients' needs self
determination are having control over ISP process and
resources that will be invested in their lives.
Participating in their community and making informed
choice about how, where and whom they want to live with.
Also making them aware that they have a variety of choice
on how they want to live where they want to work, whom
they would like to live with , what they want to do with
their services.

46. WORLD OF WORK
 Work experience
 Education
 Focused
 Team player
 Recognized for my good attendance

47. WORLD OF WORK
 Productive with networking
 Applied social work course in field work
 Interviewing skills
 Introduced to different departments
 Understanding the agency

48. WORLD OF WORK
 Educational
background
 Resource and
networking
 Personality
 CPR and First aid and
Safety
 Crises intervention with
behavior support
planning
Skills Certifications

49. WORLD OF WORK
 Adult service staff meetings are held weekly; other
departments meet on as needed basis.
 Scheduled in service will be held as needed.
 Staff can serve as resource personnel, thus providing an
on-going source of personal growth through exchange of
ideas.
 Formalized staff in-services will be provided in
accordance with need, opportunity and available
speakers.

50. REFERNCES
 About Murray Ridge." Murray Ridge Center Lorain County
Board of DD. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
 Bondy, Andrew S. "The Picture Exchange Communication
System." The Picture Exchange Communication System. N.p.,
2014. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
 "Forms/ Personal Policy Manual." Murray Ridge Center
Lorain County Board of DD. N.p., June-July 2015. Web. 22
Mar. 2016.
 "National Association of Social Workers." National
Association of Social Workers. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016.
 "Why Make Room in Sports for Kids with Developmental
Disabilities?" The Aspen Institute. N.p., 25 Feb. 2015. Web.
22 Mar. 2016.