Work Areas At Charles Webster Potter Place

C.W. Potter Place has refined and developed the work of the clubhouse into three different work areas. Each work area has two staff generalists to coordinate the work, and to engage members in the necessary tasks to insure the successful running of the clubhouse. These areas include: the Business Office, Membership Services, and Food Services.

BUSINESS OFFICE
The Business Office is comprised of all internal and external communication systems and the orientation component. This work area provides members the opportunity to perform a wide range of clerical tasks and computer/data entry work. It is responsible for managing the petty cash system, typing minutes, outreach, as well as coordinating the reception area and telephone answering. The office coordinates the production of three publications: the weekly newspaper The Potter Press, the monthly newsletter Innerworks, and a quarterly creative writing journal Reflections. These publications require writing, photocopying, and collating. Members and staff from this work area also coordinate, organize, outreach, schedule, and orient new members to Potter Place. This involves a structured orientation procedure that concentrates on current members scheduling, welcoming, and educating potential and new members to Potter Place. The Business Office provides the opportunity for members with diverse abilities to explore new vocational roles, improve current work skills, and gain new vocational abilities.

MEMBERSHIP SERVICES
The Membership Services work area is comprised of education services, employment services, and the tracking of member information. This work area provides a variety of clerical, data entry, filing, outreach, computer work, statistical, and research tasks for members. It is also the center of our support system for members interested or involved in education and employment. The monthly census, main member data base, and employment tracking is all updated and completed in Membership Services. Central to the functioning of this work area is the involvement of members, not only in the day to day tasks, but in performing as a resource to help support members of our community who could benefit from their work or educational experience.

FOOD SERVICES
The Food Services work area is responsible for the maintenance and running of our Cafe, Kitchen, and Dining Room services. This integrated approach provides members with the opportunity to get involved in the wide variety of tasks that are required to coordinate and manage food services for 60+ people a day. Members are involved in stocking shelves, operating a cash register, menu planning, budgeting, food preparation, cooking, waiting tables, cleaning, shopping, outreach, recycling, and inventory maintenance. Each of these tasks done successfully prepares Potter Place to serve a hot lunch five times a week, deli sandwiches five times a week, dinner three evenings a week, full breakfast one time a week, brunch one time a week, and six hours a day of cafe or snack bar service Monday through Friday.

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