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On May 23 SE Research Centre, JourneyHomeHospice, and SE Health SE First Nations, Inuit and Métis Program spent the day engaging in the exchange of stories and initiatives with First Nation Elders and leaders from communities and organizations in both Ontario and New Brunswick.   At the meeting, initiatives were shared by the SE First Nations, Inuit and Métis Program, Journey Home Hospice, Home for Life Project and the SE Research Centre. Paige Fernandes, Program Manager at SE Research Centre, presented one of our projects, the #OurDementiaJourneyJournal (ODJJ), a resource intended to support relationships between family/ friend #caregivers and #care #providers of persons living with #dementia. The ODJJ was co-designed and adapted with and for First Nation communities across Canada to ensure that it is #CulturallySafe and #Inclusive. We are now working with the SE First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Program to bring the ODJJ to First Nations communities across Canada. Learn more about the ODJJ project at https://lnkd.in/g2gt3kEE.   Some key takeaways from the day:   1. #Authentic #CoDesign leads to trust: Upon hearing about the First Nations community's involvement in the co-design of the ODJJ, several members felt empowered to openly discuss dementia and seek support within their community. 2. #Participatory #research helps to understand and meet a community need: A community-based research team worked with the Elsipogtog community to develop an assessment tool to understand the services and supports First Nation Elders need to age in place. #AgingInPlace enables First Nation Elders to maintain culture, language, friends, family, familiar foods, and ceremonies. Read more about the Home for Life work at https://lnkd.in/g82p8J7d 3. Meaningful change is community-driven and specific: Through business lines such as the FNIM Program, the JHH, and the Research Centre, SE Health strives to continuously expand our understanding of the unique needs of diverse communities across Canada so that we can not only work to address the needs but strive to create a healthier future for #aging Canadians.   #HealthEquity #CommunityEngagement #IndigenousHealth

GRANT OPPORTUNITY: The Administration for Community Living, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded the Alzheimer’s Association a $25 million grant to enhance respite services for people living with dementia and their caregivers nationwide. This grant — the largest ever made to the Association — established the Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI). The CDRI will award approximately $20 million total (contingent on the availability of federal funds) in competitive grants to local respite care providers with a target of at least 50% awarded to underserved communities. In addition to the grant funding, the CDRI will support grant recipients through online training and technical assistance so respite services are delivered by staff who are knowledgeable (dementia-capable). The CDRI will collect data and study the outcomes of these projects to inform public policy. For info & to apply: https://buff.ly/3Tm2XwN

GRANT OPPORTUNITY: The Administration for Community Living, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, awarded the Alzheimer’s Association a $25 million grant to enhance respite services for people living with dementia and their caregivers nationwide. This grant — the largest ever made to the Association — established the Center for Dementia Respite Innovation (CDRI). The CDRI will award approximately $20 million total (contingent on the availability of federal funds) in competitive grants to local respite care providers with a target of at least 50% awarded to underserved communities. In addition to the grant funding, the CDRI will support grant recipients through online training and technical assistance so respite services are delivered by staff who are knowledgeable (dementia-capable). The CDRI will collect data and study the outcomes of these projects to inform public policy. For info & to apply: https://buff.ly/3Tm2XwN

ICYMI: Open invitation to Colorado organizations - 1) find your location using this link, register, and join us, and 2) forward to your respective partners and invite them to join us! Risa Hayes and I are pleased to be bringing (no cost) Colorado Community Capacity Building workshops to you, starting this week! Through the progressive CO Hospital Transformation Program (HTP), CO hospitals are engaging with their wider communities for Community Health Neighborhood Engagement (CHNE). When we all wrap our arms around the hospitals for the health of our respective local family, friends, and neighbors, we are BEST TOGETHER! Why these workshops? To bring as many local community partners together to connect and strategize – even to better understand what services and/or resources each partner can offer that are not well known. We will be facilitating collaborative, strategic brainstorming activities between hospitals, community-based organizations, health alliances, coalitions, regional health connectors, social needs services, and other partners in your community to explore opportunities and approaches to collectively address challenges facing the health of our communities, share best practices, and build community capacity. While the tools and practices we’ll use are an important part of the workshop, the real benefit is in using these tools in collaboration with your partners.  NOTE to hospitals: Due to the interactive nature of these workshops that are designed to bring hospital teams and community partners together, participating HTP hospitals can count this workshop as a Community Advisory Meeting for the purposes of Community and Health Neighborhood Engagement (CHNE) reporting for PY3Q3 (April-June 2024). Matt Haynes MPP, MA Kami Tam Sing, MPM, PMP, CPIS We look forward to seeing you there!

🌟💰 Calling all Public Health Advocates: Unlocking Funding for Healthier Communities! 🤝🌍 Hey, change-makers! Securing funding for public health is key to building resilient communities. Here's how to make it happen: 📊 Highlight Impact: Showcase the impact of public health initiatives! Clear demonstrations of successful programs can attract potential funders. 🤝 Forge Partnerships: Collaborate with businesses, NGOs, and governmental bodies to pool resources, expertise, and funding opportunities for robust public health initiatives. 📈 Data-Driven Proposals: Back your ideas with solid data! Evidence-based proposals outlining the potential impact are more compelling to potential investors and donors. 🌐 Grant Applications: Explore grant opportunities from foundations and government agencies, aligning your proposals with their mission and goals. 🗣️ Community Support: Mobilize community support! Engaged communities can be powerful advocates when seeking funding for public health projects.

We are asking health, social, and community care leaders and providers, "How would an Alberta caregiver strategy and action plan support your efforts?" I just love this reply-- navigation and not duplicating efforts: "A lot of what you're doing already is terrific. I mean, and especially this Caregiver-Centered Care education and co-design group that is gathering in professional caregivers, clinicians to think in that team work and collaborative mindset.  But also, I think one thing that would be great is to have and without duplicating services is to have various links to common kinds of resources. And we've tried to do that ourselves with our own website is things like, okay, where do I get the SAGE directory? How do I find the DATs application form? How do I find the City of Edmonton rec paths? Like, if those links are available to people, you know, they can do a lot of that stuff themselves. It's that how do I how do I even know that there's a service for that? Right. And they just don't know how to navigate that. So having some of that information as well might be helpful." If you are interested in talking to us about how to build a better system to support Alberta's family caregivers, email us: sdanders@ualberta.ca

Wagner Kapoor Institute has 200+ community partners, and it’s still not enough. We’re here to serve the community as widely as we possibly can, which is why we have so many partners to aid us in this outreach. Still, very few people want to open up an eye care institute in the “worst part of town.” So it’s critical that we keep finding new community partners to help us reach the care deserts, where we can do the most good for people. That’s why, most weekends, our Sight Forever team heads out to local health fairs, churches, community centers, or senior living facilities to perform free vision screenings for sight-destroying diseases, such as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy. We want to reach the people whose conditions make it difficult or impossible for them to access eye care on their own. If they can’t see, they can’t get transportation to a fancy office in the city…which is why we have 10 smaller locations (4 are ours, and 6 are built with community partners), rather than one urban mausoleum. Our goal as healthcare providers is to serve as many communities as possible. By nourishing our existing community partnerships and constantly seeking out new ones, we’re making that happen.

WBI is in the 🗣️Raising Voices in Research🔬 project with Action Hampshire to introduce harder-to-access communities to health and care research. We started this work in November-December last year to introduce and demystify community research over two workshops. Our goal is to increase #minority and #migrant participation in community research and use findings to improve #PublicHealth services. 🔎Through the workshops, we helped to debunk some myths concerning health and care research. Some of the misconceptions we heard concerning health and social care research were that: “it means taking [medication] or being injected with something”; “it only takes place in the hospital”; or “it only involves physical diseases; it cannot help with mental health.” “I learned and understood how research is done because we discussed different issues, for example how to be part of the NHS organisation and more.” In collaboration with University of Winchester, University of Southampton, NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board and the NIHR Clinical Research Network Wessex, the project targets #HealthInequalities by increasing a participatory, inclusive approach in public health research.  🙌 We look forward to the next phase of collaboration with Action Hampshire and the NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board in their commitment to work closely with voluntary organisations to make services work better for everyone in our local communities. https://lnkd.in/eKzrEB2w

Learn how organizations can engage members of the communities they serve to build trust, advance health equity, and improve care outcomes in this new report from INSPIRE.

The two phases of Saathealth’s learnings that shape our ambitions for the next 5 years. The first, 2019-2021 showed us how the use of infotaining, preventive health content can be used to influence health seeking behaviors in a base of 100-150K families. The second, 2022-2023 demonstrated our ability to effectively reach, engage with and influence the health choices of millions of health consumers. The third phase - 2024 onwards, is when we apply our learnings to help millions of health consumers access health and financial resilience products through our curated marketplace. Looking forward! Aditi Hazra-Ganju Saathealth