2019 Inbound Themed and Global – Health and Wellness: Integrating World Influences

Journey #15418

FFNEO Hosting Journey Coordinators
Rose and Duane Horning

Program and Home Stay Week #1 with FFNEO – 9/11 to 9/18
Program and Home Stay Week #2 with FF of Dayton – 9/18 to 9/26

FFNEO completed its first Global and Themed Inbound Journey by giving home hospitality and arranging Health and Wellness programming. We warmly thank the 15 ambassadors who joined us from Alabama, Arizona, California, Iowa, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Toronto CAN and Kaohsiung Taiwan. We hope you learned a lot and enjoyed your time with us – we certainly did!

We would like to give our most sincere thanks to the organizing committee for their hard work and to our members and guests who acted as home hosts, dinner hosts, day hosts, drivers and companions during this busy week.

Health and Wellness Programs and local hospitality and touring points of interest included:

WED, 11 September
Arrivals and Welcome Dinner in downtown Cleveland

THU, 12 September
Amish birthing practices at Middlefield Care Center
Study of genetic disorders at DDC Clinic – Center for Special Needs Children
‘Horse and Buggy Lunch’ in an Amish home
Visit to an Amish 2-room school house
Visit to a home-based business for sales, custom assembly and service of Amish buggies and carts

FRI, 13 September
New concepts in residential dementia care at Lantern Group Dementia Facility
Therapies with horses, animals and nature at In Step With Horses

SAT, 14 September
Free day with hosts

SUN, 15 September
Tour of Cleveland on Lolly the Trolley
Free day with hosts

MON, 16 September
Program on palliative and hospice care at Hospice of the Western Reserve
Senior Health and Wellness at Breckenridge Village, a senior living community

TUE, 17 September
Cutting edge practices of the world-renown Cleveland Clinic
Tour of new Health and Wellness Campus combining studies of medicine, nursing and dental training
Programs offered by VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System
Farewell Dinner

WED, 18 September
Departures to Dayton

9/11 – At Welcome Dinner, ambassadors Beth and O-San from Taiwan with hosts and Ambassador Journey Coordinators, Rose and Duane	9/11 – At Welcome Dinner, hosts Frank and Mary Jane welcoming ambassadors Karla and Elke	9/11 – At Welcome Dinner, ambassadors Karen and Marie with hostess (center) Aggie
9/11 – At Welcome Dinner, ambassador Peggy Ann with host Mike (and Pat)	9/13 – ‘At Home’ residential living at Lantern Group Dementia Facility	9/13 – Ambassador Elese at In Step With Horses
9/13 – After the day’s programs, ambassador Denise with hostess Claire and ambassadors John and Caye with hosts Bill and Amy visiting Chagrin Falls	9/14 – On ‘Free Day’ at Holden Arboretum, ambassadors Dianna, Kathy, Bonnie, Joan and Elese with hostesses Mary, Lori and Jackie	9/14 – All ambassadors and hosts were dinner hosted by FFNEO members. Here, ambassador Marie is with dinner hostess Anne (co-dinner hostess Nancy not in photo)
9/15 – What is more typical on a FF journey than hosts and ambassadors making breakfast together? Here, host Duane with ambassador Beth	9/16 – Ambassadors and hosts at the Veale Wellness and Aquatic Center at Breckenridge Village	9/17 – At Cleveland Clinic, our group heard how therapy dogs roam near entrances to make visitors and patients feel welcome and calm
9/17 – At the Health Education Campus, an explanation of how first responders receive life flight and ambulance simulation training	9/17 – At the VA Hospital, a program explaining services followed by a tour of the prosthesis center	9/17 – After the end of our programs but before the Farewell Dinner, ambassadors Joan, Elese, Dianna, Peggy Ann and Denise gather with FFNEO host Mike and member Marilyn on a beautiful Cleveland afternoon at Merwin’s Wharf