At Absolute Care Management, we believe caring is an art. The client is the inspiration and the canvas, and the caregiver is the artist and the brush. Our role in creating the masterpiece of care is to make sure all the supplies are available and the artist is fully prepared for the work. When all the components come together as they should, the result is beautiful!
In order to pay tribute to this idea, our marketing department put together a client wide art contest, open to any of the clients of our Marked Tree Branch who would like to participate. We started small, with just one of our 26 counties of service, just to see how it would go. We gave each contestant a kit with everything they would need to create a watercolor painting. We set the ground rules and the time-line in a small manual and gave each client 8 words of inspiration to get started. After a month of painting, we collected the art, took it to a local artist to be judged and held an art showing and celebration just last week. During the show, we spoke about what each client painted, what things are most important to them and what advice they have to give younger generations. Those clients who participated varied in age and ability, but they all seemed to enjoy the challenge and especially the opportunity to share what inspires them with others. Each of the clients had their caregiver with them to celebrate, because they were a large part of the project start to finish. I was a great bonding experience for the caregivers and their clients as well as the branch employees because they all worked together in a new sort of way. Overall, the project was a success and will give rise to other fun projects like it in the future. Below we have shared a few more lovely photos of the Art of Caring Show and celebration.
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In order to pay tribute to this idea, our marketing department put together a client wide art contest, open to any of the clients of our Marked Tree Branch who would like to participate. We started small, with just one of our 26 counties of service, just to see how it would go. We gave each contestant a kit with everything they would need to create a watercolor painting. We set the ground rules and the time-line in a small manual and gave each client 8 words of inspiration to get started. After a month of painting, we collected the art, took it to a local artist to be judged and held an art showing and celebration just last week. During the show, we spoke about what each client painted, what things are most important to them and what advice they have to give younger generations. Those clients who participated varied in age and ability, but they all seemed to enjoy the challenge and especially the opportunity to share what inspires them with others. Each of the clients had their caregiver with them to celebrate, because they were a large part of the project start to finish. I was a great bonding experience for the caregivers and their clients as well as the branch employees because they all worked together in a new sort of way. Overall, the project was a success and will give rise to other fun projects like it in the future. Below we have shared a few more lovely photos of the Art of Caring Show and celebration.
