[humanser] organizing information, more work-related questions

[Ginny Duff]

For labelling, there is a thing called the PenFriend.   For those of us who don't read braille, it allows you to label things and the Pen Friend will read the label to you.   I do not know if that would be of any use.   I've never used it myself.

I collect all my contacts in the contacts list on my phone.

Ginny



Please note that my e-mail address has changed as of March 29, 2016 to:    Gduff at stjoestoronto.ca<mailto:Gduff at stjoestoronto.ca>

Dr. V. Duff
Clinical Director, West End ACT Team,
St. Joseph's Heatlh Centre , Toronto
Staff Psychiatrist, Complex Mental Illness, CAMH
Lecturer, University of Toronto
Tel:   416.530.6000, ext 3101
FAX:   416.530.6363

On Apr 21, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Lisa Irving via Humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org<mailto:humanser at nfbnet.org>> wrote:

Hi All,



I'm pretty excited to share that my employer purchased JAWS. I'm a bit
nervous that, for the most part, I've been left out of the loop. I've done
my best to provide resources and support. I hope to tell you sometime next
week that all is well with JAWS on the workplace desktop.



I've learned a little bit more about some of my job responsibilities and, of
course, that brings up additional questions. Here are my questions. I
apologize if they're not clear.



At this point I will not have the option to take a company laptop into the
community and I'm not supposed to use my personal laptop for work purposes.
This poses challenges at a number of levels. One concern I have has to do
with paperwork that I pass out to participants at the end of a meeting. The
group is asked to fill out the form. I'm supposed to collect the completed
forms; take them back to the office; look over the form to see if any
participant has requested information or  phone contact. I'm also supposed
to do something with tallying information I'm supposed to photocopy each
form and put it into a particular hard-copy file.. I'm not too clear about
that task. I don't know how to pull all of this together and do my job
without a laptop. Ideas?



I know that JD and others shared how they organize resources. I'm still a
little lost. I've got a bag of print brochures; flyers and other papers that
I've collected at a couple of resource fairs and at Earth Day. I understand
that I can use the Pearl Camera to scan each item. I don't know how to
organize the information from that point. I don't know how I'm supposed to
retrieve a resource without the use of a laptop. Ideas?



Last week I was tasked with finding faith-based organizations. I worked from
home; used the internet and tried editing some of the lists I found.
Subsequently while at work, and without internet access, I used my cell
phone to get phone numbers for some of the places; there's over 500 places
of worship listed. At work I've called some of these places to  introduce
faith-based leaders and their members to our organization and our approach
to living with a mental health challenge; wellness education and other tools
as defined by the participant, including meaning and purpose/spirituality.
Some of these organizations asked to have information emailed. I've got
their email information and it's not well organized. For example, I have a
list of places of faith that begins with the letter "A". There's probably 30
places. I've started to create headings; that's tedious and maybe not the
most effective way to list these places. I've been inserting phone numbers
and email addresses into a word document. There's got to be a more effective
way to do all of this. What is it?



I've been permitted to use my laptop and work from home for the past few
weeks. Now I have saved work emails; the faith-based project and a few
resources. I don't know how to finish the faith-based project if I can't
transfer it from my laptop to the company's desktop. (We can't use thumb
drives).



Thanks so much to JD, Carli and so many of you for doing a little
hand-holding and sharing tips-n-tricks.



From,

Lisa Irving

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