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Comments (7)
If you're not using breakout groups for your activity, you could use the break-out group field with a 1 our 2 letter code to indicate (in a somewhat secretive way) that a child has an allergy, etc. For example, if a child has an allergy to nuts, make the breakout code AN (allergy to nuts). This would print out in a box on the top right of the name tag. You would then need to train your volunteers/staff what these mean.
Because we use breakout groups here for our children, we rely on the tags comments but also put an attribute on the child's record that prints out on a roster for the room teacher. Kind of a double check for the leader.
Hope this helps,
Katie, That's a great idea to use it in a breakout group, cause then if you only use two letters it will show up very large.
For severe allergies, we actually use cheap bright orange plastic snap on bracelets (like you get at cheaper theme parks or resorts). Then write the allergy on the bracelet. We just keep them at the check-in station and moms with kids who have allergies know to ask for a bracelet. When you have a kid with allergies that matter...parents are asking and looking for a way to make sure you know their child has an allergy. We do also put it into the tag comment, but those can be overlooked or ripped off.
You could do different colored tags for different issues. Just a thought.
Lark Corbitt
Ministry Database Director
F1 Certified Champion
StoneBridge Church
The Woodlands, TX
Twitter: LarkTX
Lark-That's a cool idea too! One question-have you had any parents that had issues w/using the colored bands (for privacy issues)? Which, really, our system would probably have the same issues too. Just curious...
No. As far as allergies go...for our parents..the more obvious and visible the better. They want to make sure no one misses them. Now if you were to use them for special issues, then you could use more muted tones, like cream and brown so they look like bracelets and nobody would even notice except the teachers who need to know.
Lark
One thing I get my churches to do is test your volunteers on a regular basis. Take a staff kid or a members kid that you know and change their allergy tag comment to be "Contact Katie Smith at 972-555-1212 IMMEDIATELY when reading this!" The name should be the children's pastor or director's phone number. When they call or contact you give them a $5 Starbucks card or something similar.
The problem is that the allergy information becomes invisible to volunteers over time. They just stop reading them. So test them and then reward them. If no one reads it then retrain them. :)
Matthew McMaster
Implementation Manager
We want to put symbols in the place of putting the special need on the tag ...is there a way to do that?
Hi Alisha!
At this point in time it is not possible to input anything other than text in the Tag Comment area of the Check In tag. Thanks for the feedback!