Building Effective Supports for Family Caregivers

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Building Effective Supports for Family Caregivers

• The Georgia Quality Care Network
• Amy Tribble
• Director of State Initiatives
• Gayle Alston
• Director of Community Initiatives
• Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving
• Georgia Southwestern State University

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Learning ObjectivesParticipants will

• Learn how the Rosalynn Carter Institute built
  statewide coalitions to address caregiver issues.
• Learn how RCI is mobilizing the CARE-NETs to
  promote evidence-based programs across the state.
• Learn about tools that support dissemination of
  evidence-based programs in communities.

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Coalitions

• Coalitions are one of the cornerstones for
  creating successful change within a community.
  They represent an array of local interests and
  bring together organizations and individuals to
  build a power base that works to influence social
  change of a mutual concern.
• Wisconsin clearing house

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RCI Partnered with the Agencies on Aging to
Create CARE-NETs across the State of Georgia
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CARE-NETs

• Bring together professional and family caregivers
  as well as agency administrators and
  policy-makers.
• CARE-NETs function independently, setting their
  goals and priorities based on regional needs and
  opportunities.
• Quarterly Liaison meetings offer opportunities to
  share training and information and develop
  statewide initiatives.

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Georgia Quality Care Network

• The GQCN is a state-wide network of agencies,
  coalitions and other stakeholders committed to
  improving the quality of home and community-based
  services in Georgia.

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Georgia Quality Care Network

• The twelve state-wide CARE-NETs are the
  foundation for the GQCN.
• Expanding the partnership
• Georgia Extension
• Area Health Education Center
• HealthCare Georgia Foundation

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Why Evidence Based Programs

• One of the elements of Quality Care is
  Effectiveness.
• Because of rigorous testing, we can be sure EBPs
  will be effective if implemented with fidelity.

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Challenges

• Resistance to added expectations.
• We already use Evidence-based practices.
• Entering unfamiliar territory.
• Moving from independent CARE-NETs to a Statewide
  Coalition

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Health Care Georgia Foundation

• 2-Year Grant provides basis for development of
  State-wide network with CARE-NETS as key members
• Workforce Development to provide quality supports
  to caregivers is the focus of our efforts
• Bringing EBPs to the long-term, home and
  community workforces is a critical element of
  this.
• First step is to increase awareness and
  readiness of providers in GA to adopt EBPs.

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Increase Awareness and Readiness for EBP

• National Summit
• Quarterly Liaison Meetings
• Individual CARE-NET meetings
• Include new partners during planning process.
• Provide opportunities for communication with EBP
  researchers.

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Moving Forward

• Measure Knowledge and use of EBP through a
  state-wide survey.
• RCI identified four EBP for implementation
• Savvy Caregiver
• Win-a-Step-Up
• Care Transitions
• Powerful Tools for Caregivers

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Moving Forward

• Train the trainer sessions to be conducted
  statewide.
• CARE-NETs to sponsor trainings/assist in
  identification of participants.
• CARE-NETs to determine most appropriate training
  modality for their region.
• Evaluation Post Survey to measure increase in
  knowledge and use of EBP interventions for
  caregiver workforce.

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Practices seem to be "influenced by fads and
fashions that are adopted over enthusiastically,
implemented inadequately, then discarded
prematurely in favor of the latest trend.
Walshe Rundall, 2001
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Quality Supports for CaregiversNot a Fad

• Caregivers deserve effective interventions.
• Evidence based practices are our best hope for
  effective interventions.
• Effective and successful implementation of
  evidence based practices requires a paradigm
  shift in the way we select, train for, implement
  and evaluate new programs.
• We begin to become the agents for change by
  accessing and mastering the tools for successful
  implementation.

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www.rosalynncarter.org
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