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Making Connections Creating Community
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Making Connections. Creating Community. A Self-Determined Life. Freedom Authority Support Responsibility Contribution to Community. The Value of…. Relationships and community connections Deciding where and with whom I live. Engaging the Strengths of our Communities. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Making Connections
Creating Community
A Self-Determined LifeFreedomAuthoritySupport
ResponsibilityContribution to Community
The Value of…Relationships and community connectionsDeciding where and with whom I live
Engaging the Strengths of our Communities
The word community is derived from Old French communite’which is derived from the Latin communitas
(cum, “with/together” + munus “gift”).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community
When all is said and done, the best guarantee of a long and healthy life may be the connections you have with other people. John Cacioppo, Neuroscientist University of Chicago Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
Why Loneliness Can Be DeadlyKatharine Gammon, LiveScience
Loneliness is a risk factor for functional decline and early death in adults over age 60, according to a University of California, San Francisco study
Social ConnectionHow Feeling Lonely Can Shorten Your LifeBy Alice Park
Search loneliness and disabilityAbout 1,560,000 results
Loneliness Linked To High Blood Pressure In Older Individuals By Donna Parker
Loneliness is the only real disability. - David Pitonyak
Search loneliness and healthAbout 16,700,000 results
Lonely? Your health may suffer - CNN.com June 18, 2012 Loneliness and isolationCan affect your quality of life – andMaybe your quantity of life, too.
When “I” is replaced by “we”
even illness becomes wellness.
Social Networks & Connections
YOU CAN'T COMMAND CARE
Institutional systems can command many behaviors but they cannot command care. Care is the commitment of one person to another, from the heart. It is the domain of people who come together in community.(John McKnight)
ASSET BASED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Needs/DeficitsServices to Meet Needs
Consumers
Programs are the Answer
Two Paths – Two Solutions
Assets/StrengthsConnections &Contributions
Citizens
People are the Answer
People and communities have deficiencies & needs
People in communities have skills & talents
Asset Based Community Development is the
capacities of local people and their associations to
build powerful communities.
What can we do with what we already have?
4 key Elements…• Everyone has Gifts• Gifts are valued in the
community• Communities are full of
welcoming places• Friends and relationships
bring meaning to our lives.
Everyone has gifts.
Hand, Head and Heart
Gifts are valued in the community.
Communities are full of welcoming places.
In groups of three…Tell your group about a gift you have and where you share it.Discuss with your group what it means to you to give your gift, and what it would mean to you if your gift remained a present, unopened.
Friends and relationships give meaning to our lives.
How to build connections.Show Up
Pay AttentionAcknowledge GiftsBuild RelationshipsKeep Showing Up
InviteIntroduce
-Joe Erpenbeck
Challenges to Community Building…
Scarce Resources
Perception
The “Service System”
Role
How do we use scare resources?
Theories of Normalization…
• Wolf Wolfensberger• Dr. Marc Gold – Competence-Deviance
Hypothesis• John O’Brien
• Personal reflection…
Service Life
A Good Paid Life
Community Life
Needs drive servicesNo organized effort to address citizen goals
Interests and needs knownClosest people are paidFew real connections
Valued outcomes and interests drive servicesActive circle of support (not paid)Needs address to support inclusion
Community Supportive Living
Interdependence
Community Participation
Informed Decision Making
RiskIndividualized
For All
I Choose Where and
with whom I live
Right thing to do
More effective support
Community/Neighborhood connections
Cost Effective
Community Supportive Living – The Right thing to do….
• All adults, whether married or single, shall make the choices about where they live, and the people with whom they will live. The preferences of each individuals should guide all aspects of the selection of housing, including the neighborhood, and whether the individual will live alone, with their family, roommates, extended family spouses or friends.
• Individuals with disabilities, like other young adults leaving high school/college select their roommates/housemates and rent or own their own home.
• Elderly individuals desire to stay in their neighborhoods, in their own home, where they have built/created a life for the last 30+ years.
Community Supportive LivingMore effective support
Support matches level of need/fluid
I choose who provides my support
Provided on my turf
Supportive Living is for Everyone…
Under $30/day$31-$45/day$46-60/day
$61-$75/day$76-$90/day
$91-$110/day$111-$150/day$151-$200/day
$200 +/day
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Number of Members in Rate Bands(information is based on 98 members)
# of members in Rate Bands
Community Supportive LivingCommunity/Neighborhood Connections
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ― Mother Teresa
Community Supportive LivingCost Effective
Supportive Living
5-8 Bed Sleep Staff
5-8 Bed Awake staff
$0.00
$20.00
$40.00
$60.00
$80.00
$100.00
$120.00
20112012
Next Steps/Areas to Enhance:
StaffingEducationAssessmentHousingTechnologyFunding
StaffingRelationshipsTrustSchedulingRuralLocation
EducationMemberFamilyGuardiansSchoolsADRC How do I stay in my
own home?How do I find a home
or job of my own?
Assessment• Determine gifts and strengths of
individual• Tool to capture outcomes of person• Tool to determine cost associated to
support person• Measurement of outcomes
– Is the person more independent?– Are we supporting areas they are
requesting?
Housing*Affordable*Accessible*Safe*Start Up*Security Deposits*Home Ownership*Waitlists
Technology
Funding
Flexibility
CodesComplexity15 min unitRoommate
Provider wrap around support
Outcomes not Units
Small group ExerciseBreak into 6 groups and brainstorm
solutions to the 6 areas that enhance options for Community
Supportive Living.
