Conference April 2007 - Get it off your chest.

The first session of the day. And a really good exchange between us, all very positive, with help being offer and accepted.

A few things to follow up on,

1. A review of our own placement description documents, comparing their placement outlines with what we are actually doing.
2. Frequency of PO visits to placements. Do a survey amongst volunteers to assess how often and why visits were made.
   
3. Pressure in short term placements to come up with the goods too early - instant answers as opposed to considered solutions. Perhaps develop a check list apply to short term placements to assess viabilty (might already exist.?)
   
4. Are we feeling the benefits of VSO capacity building?
5. Are established volunteers always present during needs analysis sessions with potential partners?

Ok, we will follow through with some of these for the June SL Prog Area meeting.