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Title: Growing


1
Growing Sustaining a Local Caregiver Coalition
  • South Central Town Hall Caregiver Coalition
  • Jinx Hackler Hastings Respite Care
  • Nichole Bryant Midland Area Agency on Aging
  • Hastings, Nebraska

2
Who We Are
  • Informal Group of Agencies and Caregivers working
    toward an adopted mission with
  • Enthusiastic and persevering leadership (cause
    without it nothing happens!)
  • We provide
  • Educational Opportunities
  • Awareness Activities
  • Caregiver Support
  • Information and Referral Services

3
What We Do
  • Meet Monthly
  • Plan at least 1 yearly event
  • Not a formal 501C3
  • No bank accounts!
  • Fundraising based on events

4
Our Mission
  • Mission
  • The South Central Town Hall Caregiver Coalition
    promotes and supports issues important to
    caregivers through coordination, education,
    public policy, and awareness.
  • Coalition Goals
  • Goal 1 Caregivers will experience less stress by
    having access to the services and resources they
    need.
  • Objective 1 Increase public awareness of the
    stresses that caregivers face and need for
    increased resources and access to those
    resources.
  • Objective 2 Increase awareness and access to
    services and support groups.
  • Goal 2 Caregivers will receive information and
    education through our annual Day of Caring for
    Those Who Care.
  • Goal 3 Caregivers will have greater balance
    between work and caregiving.

5
How we came to be.
  • Creation of State Level Coalition
  • AARP and US Administration on Aging Grant given
    to State Unit on Aging and Nebraska AARP.
  • Grant to assist in creating and sustaining
    coalitions
  • Focused on state and local level

6
Caregiver Town Hall Meeting
  • First State Coalition project
  • Thou Shalt Honor Telecast and Town Hall
    Meeting, September 2004 in Kearney
  • Wiland-Bell production by PBS
  • Nationally Televised Forum
  • Enlightening, empowering, and encouraging
    caregiver activism.

7
Town Hall Meeting.
  • Town Hall Meeting Vision
  • Gain greater knowledge of services and resources
  • Create awareness of quality of care and quality
    of life issues
  • Promote enthusiasm for change
  • Increase community involvement
  • Improve awareness of caregiver challenges

8
Caregiver Issues from Town Hall
  • Top 5 Issues identified by Caregivers across the
    state at Town Hall meetings
  • Caregiver Stress
  • Balancing a Job with Caregiver Responsibilities
  • One-Stop-Shop (statewide phone line)
  • Caregiver Training
  • Financial Issues Related to Caregiving

9
Local Town Hall Meeting
  • Resulting Local Town Hall Meeting
  • Local agencies challenge to repeat Town Hall
    locally
  • Hosted by Midland Area Agency on Aging, Hastings
    Respite Care, etc
  • 30 caregivers, 25 professionals attended

10
Local Town Hall Meeting
  • Result of Local Town Hall Meeting
  • Identified issues important to caregivers
  • Recruited coalition agencies and leader
  • Raised Awareness of Caregiver Issues
  • Local media coverage
  • Promoted agency networking
  • Attendees invited to join local coalition

11
Steps to Forming Your Own Caregiver Coalition
  • Planning
  • Implementing
  • Recruiting
  • Fundraising
  • Events
  • Evaluation and Sustainability

12
Planning Your Local Coalition
  • Gather information on caregiver needs
  • Hold your own Town Hall Meeting
  • Conduct needs assessment survey
  • Determine Coalition Purpose
  • i.e. education, awareness, support, advocacy,
    sharing resources, etc.

13
Mission and Vision
  • Vision Where you want to be in the Grand
    Optimistic Future!
  • To empower and educate caregivers of all ages,
    creating a caregiver utopia!
  • Mission Where you are going now, why you exist
    coalition purpose
  • To educate caregivers on issues important to them
    through awareness activities.

14
Goals and Objectives
  • Prioritize actions by coalition
  • Determine capabilities of coalition
  • Steering principles of all planned activities
  • Goal 1 Caregivers will experience less stress by
    having access to the services and resources they
    need. Objective 1 Increase public awareness of
    the stresses that caregivers face and need for
    increased resources and access to those
    resources.
  • Objective 2 Increase awareness and access to
    services and support groups.

15
Operations
  • Consider
  • Leadership hierarchy, voted in leaders?
  • Staffing (or volunteers) treasurer, PR
  • Location of meetings
  • Communication Methods
  • Decision Making
  • Anonymous ballots
  • Raising of Hands
  • General Consensus

16
Operations continued
  • Adopt a regular meeting schedule
  • Adopt a regular form of communication
  • i.e. email, mailing, telephone
  • Dealing with conflict
  • Methods talking, voting, defer to leader
  • Conflicting interests of members
  • Agree to disagree yet work together toward MISSION

17
Recruiting Coalition Members
  • Identifying possible members
  • Look for local people with personal experience
    and connections
  • Caregivers
  • Human Service Agencies
  • Long term care professionals
  • Hospitals
  • Respite Organizations
  • Clergy
  • Media
  • Community and Senior Centers
  • Any organizations connected to families with
    special needs

18
Recruiting Tip!
  • Find an organization (i.e. 501C3) to provide
  • Backing and support to coalition
  • Meeting space
  • Mailing address and contact phone number
  • Financial stability to manage fundraising
  • Staff time and office supplies

19
Recruiting Tips
  • Put Yourself Out There!
  • Believe in what you are selling
  • Personal Contact mailings wont work
  • Buy-in is essential
  • People accept what the effort is and are willing
    to work towards it.

20
Recruiting
  • Dont be a Debbie Downer
  • Be an Action Jackson

21
Fundraising Can Be Fun!
  • Believe in What Youre Selling
  • Tug at their Heart Strings!
  • Use your recruiting tips!
  • Explore what works in your Community
  • Community focus and showcase
  • Family friendly
  • Eco-Friendly
  • Community working together
  • Tourism
  • How do caregivers fit within the community focus

22
Fundraising Who to Ask
  • Ongoing keep asking!
  • Local service clubs
  • Kiwanis, Optimist, Elks, Rotary
  • Area business utilize locally owned
  • Grocery, floral, gift shops, banks, printing
    companies, clothing,
  • Big Businesses
  • Wal-Mart, Kinkos, Pepsi/Coke,

23
Fundraising Tips
  • Service Organizations
  • Hospitals, Retirement Facilities, Medical Service
    Offices
  • Utilize personal connections of coalition members
  • Individuals
  • Just ASK!!! The worst they can say is Nothis
    time!
  • Just asking is a promotion for events and can
    recruit a new coalition member in the deal

24
Selling the Funding
  • What do they get in return for donation?
  • PR Coverage
  • Name association with worthwhile cause
  • Good Vibes in the community
  • Return on investment in increased sales
  • Physical benefits
  • Business name on event materials
  • Name in event advertising

25
Keeping repeat funders
  • Thank-you notes
  • Thank-you ad in newspaper
  • Personal Thank-you phone call or visit
  • Shared comments from event participants visiting
    their business
  • Ask for multi-year commitment

26
Other Funding Possibilities
  • Grants (local and national)
  • Community Foundations
  • Private businesses
  • Philanthropic organizations
  • Local schools and education programs
  • Hospitals and medical parks
  • Utilize personal relationships between coalition
    members and those awarding grants.

27
Plan a Coming-Out Event
  • Helps promote awareness of coalition
  • Provides chance for funding of other projects
  • Gives coalition members tangible purpose,
    results, and rewards
  • Feel Good Time promotes continued participation
    of coalition members

28
Evaluation
  • Ongoing
  • Measure whether goals and objectives are being
    met
  • Members learn what works and what doesnt
  • Keep track of coalition activities
  • Help improve ongoing programs
  • Results guide new projects

29
Sustainability
  • Continued commitment of all members
  • Participation will wane and expand with events
  • People want something to plan!
  • Continue refining goals and objectives
  • Continue to gather input from caregivers and
    families served
  • Ongoing events and projects

30
Sustainability
  • Ongoing recruitment
  • Keep the mission statement the focus
  • Gain community support
  • PR, Fundraising, Event benefits
  • Give recognition
  • Coalition Members, Funding Sources, Partnering
    Agencies and Businesses

31
Sustainability
  • Celebrate Your Successes!
  • We use cheesecake

32
Holding A Town Hall Meeting
  • What Does the Community Want?

33
Holding Your Own Town Hall Meeting
  • Find a non-competitive location
  • i.e. community center, police station, city
    auditorium, chamber office, library
  • Brainstorm regarding who to invite
  • Use local directories, (i.e. human resource
    guides, United Way mailing list, Chamber of
    Commerce directories, phone book agencies lists,
    etc.)
  • Invite Community Leaders (Senators, Mayor City
    Council
  • Invite Family Professional Caregivers
  • Physicians

34
Recruiting Host Agencies
  • Find an agency(s) willing to..
  • Donate staff minimal time
  • Monies for expenses
  • (i.e. postage, mailings, meeting notice,
    snacks, etc)
  • Meeting location conference room

35
Getting the Word Out
  • Prepare press releases for local media
    (television, radio, newspaper)
  • Prepare distribute posters (i.e. library,
    banks, grocery stores, community centers)
  • Provide short presentations to interested parties
    (Church groups, Kiwanis, Support Groups, etc)

36
Suggested Topics at Town Hall
  • The need for respite care
  • Financial burden of care giving
  • No one-stop shop for services
  • Difficulty balancing work and care giving
  • Caregiver training
  • End of life issues
  • No respect from physicians and other health care
    professionals
  • Family conflict and caregiver stress

37
Sample Agenda
  • Opening and Introductions
  • Director Midland Area Agency on Aging
  • Video Clips Caregiver Topics
  • Provided by PBS Thou Shalt Honor
  • Clips on Top 5 Caregiver Topics
  • Caregiver Stress
  • Balancing Work and Caregiving
  • Caregiver Resources
  • Caregiver Training
  • Financial Burden
  • Small Group Exercise
  • Discussed questions on handout

38
Feed them and they will come!
  • Find local business willing to donate
  • refreshments.

39
First Coalition Meeting
  • Lets Get Together!

40
Recruiting Host Agency for First Coalition Meeting
  • Find agency committed to hosting for at least one
    year
  • Willing to donate minimal staff time
  • Willing to provide money for miscellaneous
    expenses,
  • i.e. postage, paper, snacks,
  • Ability to host large group
  • Conference Room

41
Who to Invite to First Coalition Meeting
  • Everybody!
  • Use list of attendees from Town Hall meeting
  • Use brainstorm list from Town Hall invitations
  • Invite participants from needs assessment surveys

42
How To Ensure Attendance
  • Hold it within 2 weeks after your Town Hall
    meeting
  • At the end of the Town Hall meeting
  • announce the 1st Coalition meeting
  • (time, date, place).
  • Follow-up with personal invitation by phone

43
Sample Agenda of First Meeting
  • Introduction by host agency
  • Introduction of attendees
  • Capabilities Assessment (handout)
  • Discuss results of Town Hall Meeting or Needs
    Assessment
  • Open discussion of Mission and Vision
  • Discuss possible goals and events
  • Set date and time for next meeting

44
Hosting Your First Coalition Event
  • A Day of Caring for Those Who Care

45
Planning Your Event
Also known as Keeping Coalition Members
Interested, Active, and Excited!
  • Brainstorm ideas on format of event
  • i.e. Resource Fair, Respite Day, Lunch and Learn,
    Informational Seminar, etc.
  • Use issues identified at Town Hall to develop
    activities
  • Format can dictate sponsors, speakers and
    materials needed
  • Develop a budget
  • May depend on your enthusiasm for fundraising!

46
Funding Tips
  • Use your Funding Can Be Fun Tips
  • Use local donations
  • Food, Decorations, Door Prizes, Speakers
  • Find and utilize a coalition member who has
    access to a space!
  • i.e. Coalition member Eric from Parks and
    Recreation ensures we have the City Auditorium at
    no charge
  • Update Budget as Needed
  • Dont spend it before you get it!

47
Event Tips
  • Use a theme
  • i.e. Luau, Garden Party, Jazz Fest, Patriotic
  • Recruit Enthusiastic Volunteers
  • We are not above preparing the food ourselves,
    and we do the clean up, too!

48
Happy Volunteers Fun!
49
Event Tips
  • Provide Lots of Food!
  • Local cafés and restaurants donated food
  • Grocery store donated food to prepare
  • Local restaurant donated part of meal
  • Beverages provided by Assisted Living members of
    the coalition

50
Coalition Members Participation
  • Each member makes contributions
  • Dollars
  • Donations of Food and Decorations
  • Door Prizes
  • Equipment
  • Respite
  • Time, Lots and Lots of Time!

51
Caregiver Members are Greeters!
52
Evaluation
  • Day of Caring eval. sample (handout)
  • Determine what worked and what didnt
  • Gather ideas for next event from participants
  • Recruit new coalition members
  • Provide positive feedback to coalition
  • Feels Good to Know they Enjoyed It!
  • Measure effectiveness of goals

53
Event Follow Up
  • Hold follow-up meeting soon after
  • Celebrate Your SUCCESS!!!
  • Send thank-you notes ASAP
  • Review expenses, reconcile budget
  • Jump Right in for Next Event

54
Other events by SCTH
  • November Family Caregiver Awareness Month Event
  • Luncheon and Caregiver Tree Ceremony
  • City Of Hastings Proclamation
  • On-going lunch and learn program for area
    employers
  • Caring for Your Parents Film Showing
  • Developed Brochure for IR and events
  • Participation in National Education Events
  • Washington D.C. National Caregiving Coalition
    Conference
  • ARCH Conference
  • Participate in national teleconferences and
    webcasts

55
Questions?
56
Thank-You!
  • Go Forth and Coalesce
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