Here's a story about how a member of the Changemakers community is demonstrating that the disabled can claim their rights and become role models of achievement and leadership for everyone:
Meet GameChangers competition judge Tanni Grey-Thompson, Britain's greatest ever paralympic athlete and one of the most gifted and courageous sportswomen of her generation. In this video, Grey-Thompson, who broke 35 world records as a wheelchair athlete says being born with spina bifida "didn't really play a big part in my life."
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Created on 03/26/2012 by Nicholas Carlisle
No Bully partners with schools to implement innovative and sustainable solutions to student bullying.
Organization: No Bully
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Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Other.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Student bullying is epidemic across industrialized nations worldwide, involving approximately 30% of students. It causes its targets physical, cognitive and emotional distress, marginalizes diverse youth and leads its targets to commit suicide and school shootings. Unless schools intervene promptly and effectively, the result is student disengagement and long-term mental health challenges, which impact school performance and impede students from ever reaching their lifetime potential. Students who habitually bully tend to engage in delinquency, alcohol abuse, anti-social behaviours and crimes in to their adult lives. Unchecked, bullying creates unsafe school environments and leads to greater violence in our communities.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
No Bully has developed a non-punitive response to bullying grounded in the new research on empathy that the vast majority of students, including those involved in bullying, demonstrate empathy and kindness towards their peers when their school creates conditions that support these behaviours. We train educators how to bring together a Solution Team® of students and leverage their empathy to end the bullying of one of their peers. The educator tells the team that they are not in trouble, describes how it feels to be in the target’s shoes and asks the team what they can do to resolve this situation. Solution Team is an applied lesson in empathy that gives students a direct experience of being an ally to a student who is suffering.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Last year we trained all the staff at Davidson Middle School in a common language around bullying. This is a mixed ethnicity school with a high Latino population. We then trained a group of core staff how to Solution Coach students entrenched in the role of bully or target, and how to run Solution Teams as needed. We coached one member of staff to be a Bullying Response Specialist through a three-day training of trainers hosted by No Bully. She now trains and sustain a core group of Solution Coaches at their school site, ready to run Solution Teams and Solution Coach students involved in bullying and harassment. Staff trained by us have run over thirty Solution Teams during the past year and have successfully resolved over ninety percent of incidents of bullying. Students run up to staff asking to be part of the next Solution Team. Targets are more willingly seeking adult help knowing that they wont get other students in trouble. Bullying students report that they felt good to be part of the solution instead of being stuck forever as the bully. Teachers report that the culture of the whole school is becoming more compassionate.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program is the most widespread program in the US. It asks schools for a yearlong commitment and trains schools to use escalating consequences in response to incidents of bullying. Safe Schools Ambassadors trains student leaders in nonviolent communication and intervention skills to stop bullying and violence among their peers. No Bully trains educators how to engage empathy.
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No Bully helps schools to implement a Bullying Response System that leverages student empathy to stop the bullying of their peers.
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It is grounded in research that the vast majority of students will demonstrate kindness when schools create the right conditions.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
No Bully has trained educators at nearly two hundred California schools in Solution Team and so helped support bully-free campuses for an estimated 60,000 students. Dr Alyssa Steiger reported in her doctoral research study in 2010 that educators who were trained in Solution Team resolved student bullying in 80% of cases, and this held true three months later, making Solution Team one of the most effective strategies available for ending student bullying. In 2011 No Bully received a grant from the Lynx Foundation to train schools in all the major school districts in Marin County, California in its bullying response system. In an interim survey of participants in the Marin County trainings, 96% reported that they had very successful or somewhat successful in ending bullying.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Our goal is to embed our Bullying Response System in 1,000 schools across the Western States by the end of 2015 and so train staff in providing solutions to bullying for estimated 30,000 students at these schools who are bullied each year. The project outcome each year is that 10,000 of these students will be the target of long-term bullying and that these schools will end the bullying for 80% of the students who agree to adult help.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
(1) Significant budget cuts cause schools to fund only essential academic services. We aim to secure third party funding where possible to provide training at low cost to schools. We will make the case to schools that the costs of not having Solution Team outweigh the costs of training.
(2) Shortage of school professional development days. Most schools provide only two paid professional development days and allocated these solely to academic instruction techniques. Solution: to make our training as easily integrated as possible and/or include the cost of releasing teachers and paying for substitute teachers within grant funding.
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By December 2012 we will have trained 60 additional schools in our Bullying Response System.
Task 1
We will recruit and train six No Bully trainers to deliver our program across the western US.
Task 2
We will secure foundation and corporate sponsorship for $100,000
Task 3
We will retain a part-time development director.
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By June 2013 we will have trained 150 additional schools in our Bullying Response System.
Task 1
We will have raised $200,000 in development funding.
Task 2
We will have retained a communications and sales manager.
Task 3
We will have created an online training program for educators nationwide in how to run Solution Teams.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
In 2007 I piloted a new approach to bullying that brought together teams of students to resolve the bullying of a peer. I had seen how counterproductive it was to threaten punishment so instead I let them know how it felt to be in the shoes of the target and told them they had been specially chosen as the Solution Team. After initial disbelief, the students suggested actions they could take and with my encouragement carried them out. Schools gave the intervention enthusiastic feedback: finally a remedy for an intractable problem. I trained others to run Solution Teams and soon we were getting e-mails and calls reporting almost universal success and saying that the atmosphere of the whole school was changing.
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We have partnered with WestEd, a leading US center for education, and applied to for a federal grant to test and develop Solution Team. No Bully will learn in Summer 2012 whether this application was accepted. In the meantime, No Bully will continue to submit applications with WestEd for additional research grants. We also partner with CommonSense Media and Soul Shoppe in delivering a one-day traveling roadshow on bullying.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
The Executive Director is responsible for ensuring the overall achievement of No Bully’s mission and strategic objectives. The Office Manager will be responsible for co-coordinating all aspects of No Bully program delivery to schools. The Development Director will be responsible for proposing and executing No Bully annual development plan. The Communications and Sales Manager is responsible for establishing our online and in person messaging and enrolling school clients and securing partnerships.
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We are looking for individuals with strong business experience in launching products and services to guide our launch as an international solution to bullying.
On the International Day of Down syndrome, this March 21st 2012, a new project 'Adding Capacities' is born launched by Itinerarium and focused on empowering Anna Vives (a girl with Down Syndrome) and other handicaped people with the help of technology and the power of human networks.
Anna is working to create her own font (like Arial, Times...) and would soon offer it for other people to use.
Created on 03/22/2012 by GNOFairHousing
GNOFHAC is a non-profit civil rights organization that seeks to eradicate housing discrimination through education and enforcement work.
Organization: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center
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United States, LA, New Orleans, Orleans Parish
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United States, LA, New Orleans, Orleans Parish
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Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Other.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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Operating for 1‐5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC) is a non-profit civil rights organization dedicated to eradicating housing discrimination. Recent studies by GNOFHAC show that housing discrimination is still a frequent occurrence in the greater New Orleans area. For example a 2007 audit showed a 58% rate of discrimination against African-Americans, and a 2009 audit showed widespread discrimination against people with disabilities. Families with children are particularly vulnerable to discrimination; according to HUD, 1,500 families reported that they were discriminated against on the basis of having children in 2010. Because of these statistics, GNOFHAC seeks an innovative strategy for reaching families with information about fair housing and the impact of discrimination.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The Equal Opportunity Game is a tool for educators and advocates that GNOFHAC developed in partnership with schools, community centers, and youth-serving organizations. The game and associated curriculum educate young people about civil rights, the importance of diversity and equal opportunity, and the impact of discrimination. GNOFHAC believes that youth should be educated about housing discrimination so that they may become advocates for equity and watchdogs for injustice in their communities. Because GNOFHAC intends for students to share their experiences of the Equal Opportunity Game with their parents, guardians or teachers, the workshop also functions to educate adults in the community about fair housing rights. Families with children are particularly vulnerable to housing discrimination and are specifically protected under the Fair Housing Act. Thus the Equal Opportunity Game represents an innovative form of outreach to a population deeply affected by discrimination.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
GNOFHAC partners with dozens of educators, schools, youth-serving organizations and advocacy groups to bring the Equal Opportunity Game and its related children's book "The Fair Housing Five & the Haunted House" to youth in New Orleans and as far away as Michigan, Alabama, and Washington, DC. The game is designed to build empathy and cultivate critical thinking about social issues by putting students in the shoes of a person who has experienced the impact of housing discrimination.
In the game, students are assigned characters and must work in teams to find the housing that best meets their characters’ needs. Some of the characters “experience” housing discrimination, and students see the impact discrimination has on access to education, healthcare, jobs, and other resources via “situation cards” that they draw periodically. Students complete journal entries throughout the game to reflect on their experiences. The Equal Opportunity Game builds an appreciation of diversity, and a vocabulary around justice and equity in participating youth. As our next generation of leaders, it is important that youth learn about the impact of discrimination and the importance of equal opportunity at a young age so that they may bring these insights to their communities and work throughout their lives.
GNOFHAC hopes to expand the reach of the project by partnering with schools throughout Louisiana to conduct workshops, as well as by producing copies of the game materials and facilitator guide to distribute to schools and fair housing organizations around the country.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
GNOFHAC is part of a national network of fair housing agencies, as well as a community of organizations and educators interested in engaging young people in conversations about justice and equity. Currently, there is a dearth of materials about fair housing and housing discrimination for young people and families. GNOFHAC seeks to fill that void with its Equal Opportunity Game and youth workshops.
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GNOFHAC is a non-profit civil rights organization that seeks to eradicate housing discrimination through education and enforcement work.
Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
The Equal Opportunity Game is an innovative tool for building empathy and engaging youth in dialogue about civil rights and equity.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since spring, 2010, when GNOFHAC launched its youth outreach project, staff have partnered with 11 (eleven) schools, community centers and youth-serving organizations to conduct 23 (twenty-three) youth workshops. All together approximately 350 (three hundred and fifty) students and their parents or guardians as well as fifteen (15) teachers have been served by GNOFHAC’s civil rights workshops. Students and teachers have attested to the positive and transformative impact on participants. One teacher reflected, "This workshop, superbly designed and executed, prompted challenging discussion and higher level thinking in our classroom community. We have been using themes and lessons learned as a jumping off point for further investigation and as connection to other areas of the curriculum." Students have said, "I loved the board game, because I think that it was an awesome and fun game" and "I learned a lot about fair housing... especially that discrimination needs to be stopped!"
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
Over the next 1-3 years, GNOFHAC hopes to expand the reach of the Equal Opportunity Game youth civil rights workshops. By 2015, GNOFHAC will have reached students in all sixty-three (63) New Orleans public schools serving students in grades one through six through workshop facilitation and/or distribution of its children's book "The Fair Housing Five & the Haunted House." In addition, GNOFHAC will develop curricula for high school students about fair housing and begin working in five (5) area high schools. Finally, GNOFHAC will train staff from at least five (5) fair housing agencies around the country to facilitate workshop activities with youth in their districts and build partnerships with local schools.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
GNOFHAC staff have found it challenging to market its youth workshops to public schools and teachers who have limited time for enrichment activities and must connect all curricula to state Grade Level Expectations and testing standards. GNOFHAC will overcome this barrier by developing a set of materials that outline the connections between workshop elements and required curricula. In addition, GNOFHAC staff have built a partnership with Young Audiences, a national organization whose local chapter coordinates extracurricular programming in a number of area schools, and staff will work to build similar relationships with other youth-serving organizations.
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Develop and publish a facilitator guide in order to share the Equal Opportunity Game with other organizations and educators.
Task 1
Consolidate existing curricular and training materials and develop new workshop curricula for high school students.
Task 2
Organize focus group of educators and advocates to review and provide feedback on draft facilitator guide.
Task 3
Publish facilitator guide; develop and implement distribution plan.
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Conduct Equal Opportunity Game workshops at three (3) new schools and train two (2) new organizations in workshop facilitation.
Task 1
Conduct outreach to area schools and teachers.
Task 2
Work with teachers at three new schools to tailor curricula to their classroom needs.
Task 3
Distribute facilitator guide; plan and implement webinar-style or in-house facilitation trainings for three organizations.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
The idea for the Equal Opportunity Game came out of the friendship between a fair housing advocate and a New Orleans teacher. One day at a coffee shop the GNOFHAC staff member was expressing her frustration at the number of housing discrimination complaints received recently from families with children who encountered landlords with formal or informal "no kids" policies. The staff member suggested that there was a need to engage youth in conversations about equal housing opportunity because of the ways in which housing discrimination impacts their quality of life. Meanwhile, the teacher was sharing her interest in implementing a unit on social justice and equity that connected to required English Language Arts and social studies curricula. And thus, a mutually rewarding partnership was born. GNOFHAC partnered with the teacher and her classroom of fourth and fifth grade students to develop the Equal Opportunity Game and implement its flagship workshop in April 2010.
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To date, GNOFHAC has partnered with eleven (11) entities, including six (6) schools, two (2) community centers, and three (3) youth-serving organizations to implement youth workshops. These include Audubon Charter School, Langston Hughes Academy, McDonough 32 Elementary School, Alice Harte Charter School, Eisenhower Elementary School, The Urban League, Young Audiences, Ashe Cultural Arts Center, and the Freret Neighborhood Center in New Orleans, LA, as well as the Dumas-Wesley Community Center in Mobile, AL. GNOFHAC also works with a network of partner fair housing agencies nationwide.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
Two full-time GNOFHAC staff members will work to implement project milestones- the Education Coordinator and the Outreach Specialist. In addition, GNOFHAC will utilize volunteers and interns to help with administrative and programmatic activities related to the project.
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GNOFHAC is looking for educators, schools, and youth-serving organizations to partner and share resources with. GNOFHAC would love to share its curricula, materials and children's book with more children and families around the country.
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Organization: Independence High School
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United States, CA, Bakersfield
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United States, CA, Bakersfield
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Other
Your role in Education
Teacher.
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Public (tuition-free)
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1‐5 years
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The goals of our project were to help mainstream our Autistic students with their general education peers, and to provide outreach and awareness about green energy and promoting renewable energy for a sustainable future. The Falcon Autistic Solar Team wanted to provide an open forum, through our presentations, so that local students will think about ways they can make a difference too.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Our higher-functioning students with Autism decided to form a club called the Falcon Autistic Solar Team to help peer-tutor other schools about how a solar panel takes radiant energy from the sun and converts it into electricity. The focus of the Falcon Autistic Solar Team (FAST) is to travel to other schools in Bakersfield, CA and teach their students about how solar energy works. Our presentations to other schools allow our special needs students to work on their socialization skills and help to develop their public speaking skills as well.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Our solar demonstrations include using solar-powered cars, a solar house, and a solar-powered Ferris wheel. Falcon Autistic Solar Team members also demonstrate other solar energy conversions such as how radiant energy is used to cook food in a Solar Oven and how solar beads that contain a special pigment, change colors when exposed to ultraviolet light from the sun. Other goals of the Falcon Autistic Solar Team are to help our special-needs students at Independence H.S. gain a concrete understanding of science areas such as energy usage, forms of energy, photosynthesis, solar power, photovoltaic systems, and electricity.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Our project is creative and original in that it addresses our need for more solar energy education, it uses a “kids-teaching-kids” delivery model, and it is run by students with Autism. We don’t really have any competitors, but our project could be easily replicated by other groups of students and spread on a large-scale basis. I think that the more groups that start clubs like ours is a good thing. We would be happy to share our project with other schools to replicate.
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Students with Autism who peer-tutor other students about how solar energy works.
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Our students peer-tutor other students about how solar energy works. It helps mainstream our special-needs students with their peers.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The Falcon Autistic Solar Team has done solar presentations for 14 classrooms. We have held an energy expo on our campus, sponsored a recycled art show, filmed 2 public service announcements about solar energy, created an energy calendar, and sponsored an energy run on our campus.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We plan on continuing to do solar presentations for 6-12 classrooms per year, as well as continue our other energy-related activities.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
One possible barrier to our Falcon Autistic Solar Team project is transportation. Currently, we use our school’s special education van to go to other schools to do our solar demonstrations. If we lost the use of the van our project could possibly be jeopardized.
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We spend the first six months learning about solar energy and planning our solar club activities.
Task 1
Write grants to raise money for replacement supplies.
Task 2
Do art projects and other energy-related activities to reinforce the solar energy concepts.
Task 3
Identify and connect with possible schools where we could do solar demonstrations.
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Our twelve month goal would be to do multiple solar demonstrations, complete other energy-related activities, and submit our pro
Task 1
Schedule solar demonstrations.
Task 2
Submit competition applications.
Task 3
Get feedback from attendees of our solar demonstrations to see what we can change to make things better.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
I was teaching our higher-functioning students with Autism how some of my solar-powered LEGO kits worked. The students were actively engaged in the activity and were making concrete connections with the learning. I was really impressed by how enthusiastic and focused the students were with the topic. Later that day while waiting for the buses, one of the students walked up to me and said, “That solar energy activity was mind-blowing!” That was my “aha” moment. I thought, “These kids could teach solar energy to other kids.”
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Over the last five years I have received over 30 grants worth $73,000 from corporations such as Target, Best Buy, Chevron, National Education Association, Pacific Gas & Electric, and DonorsChoose.org
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
Our Falcon Autistic Solar Team has 2 advisors and 12 student members.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Our main need is spreading our message on a larger scale.
Created on 03/20/2012 by sminkara
ETI hosts free, local summer camps to help transition blind youths into becoming active and integrated members in developing countries.
Organization: Empowerment Through Integration
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United States, MA, Wellesley, Norfolk County
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Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Coach, Resource Officer, Other.
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Other
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1‐5 years
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How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Over 40 million people are completely blind, and at least another 135 million live with varying degree of visual impairments. Almost 90% of the visually impaired population lives in developing countries, where communities have neither the resources nor understanding to care for marginalized members. Even when family members and charitable organizations try to fill in the void, they often fail to empower the affected and, instead, allow misconceived stigma to confine disabled individuals to dependent roles. These circumstances negatively affect self-esteem, social status, and life expectancy.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
We propose the following four approaches to empower visually-impaired individuals. First is to provide comprehensive training on overcoming disabilities related to blindness through the use of assistive devices to achieve greater independence with activities of daily living and, especially, in the pursuit of education. Second is to foster partnerships between blind and sighted youths, with the goal to increase awareness and rectify misconceptions of visual impairment. Third is to collaborate with companies to create internship positions that will integrate blind young adults into the workforce. Fourth is to engage and support advocacy activities for full inclusion and non-discriminatory behavior towards people with blindness on a local, regional and national level.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
We successfully hosted three Camp Rafiqi programs, which is a three-week summer sleepaway camp for youths aged 12 to 20 years, in Lebanon since the summer of 2009. Visually impaired youths were recruited from local schools and villages to attend the camp with all expenses paid. For every disabled attendee, two non-disabled youths were also invited. This unique camp composition achieved several goals. It allowed visually impaired participants to gather and share their experiences with each others. At the same time, they get a taste of integration into society, where they explore their abilities and techniques to overcome their limits in safe environment, and with the help of mainstream peers. Sighted participants also gained an intimate understanding of living with visual impairments and learned to be attuned to their new friends’ needs. Upon completion of the program, many attendees have naturally become local ambassadors for ETI. Our success with Camp Rafiqi program confirms the importance of building mutual understanding for full integration of visually impaired individuals into society.
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Youth Association of the Blind (YAB) runs summer programs for blind children. However these programs are not integrated with sighted children, and do not provide science education. YAB focuses on training educators who will be able to accommodate students rather than on the students themselves. We focus on providing highly individualized attention to direct student growth. We are partnered with YAB to introduce new dimensions to the service landscape. This will allow us to grow in a complementary manner.
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ETI empowers blind youths to partner with sighted individuals and become active, integrated members of their societies.
Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
ETI aims to merge the visually impaired and sighted people by promoting mutual understanding of and adaptation to both worlds.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
A majority of blind youths in Lebanon do not have canes and are confined at home because their parents feared social stigma. These children are completely dependent on their caregivers and unable to function in society. Since the start of our first Camp Rafiqi program in 2009, we have helped over 100 children become more independent. Our curriculum taught them to walk using a cane, shop for grocery, and even go mountaineering. Parents and witnesses are encouraged by these children’s achievements. The 200 sighted alumni from our camp are also helping to spread the words. One person at a time, we are changing Lebanese society’s perception of what visually impaired children can do.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We will expand our outreach in Lebanon to recruit blind children not currently enrolled in schools and those in remote villages. ETI will also begin to venture into Ghana and aim to replicate our success with Camp Rafiq program in Lebanon. We expect to directly help at least another 100 children become more independent. Our updated curriculum will include more comprehensive skills set. ETI will also partner with local schools to develop programs that may eventually integrate visually impaired children into the mainstream education system.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Working against societal norms is our hardest and most important challenge to overcome. We plan to overcome this by working with children whose views are still impressionable. We hope that by introducing sighted and non-sighted campers to an environment in which they are successfully, they will feel comfortable with the idea of working together instead of self-segregating.
Another issue we have is finding the right partners to work with. Collaboration amongst NGOs, while ideal, can sometimes cause tension and apprehension. We have already run into this problem and have found that it was important to identify other organizations that had the same attitude of serving the community that we have.
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We will recruit more children across Lebanon for our Camp Rafiqi program and make the curriculum more comprehensive.
Task 1
Expand Camp Rafiqi program curriculum to better accommodate children from diverse backgrounds, and teach a greater set of skills
Task 2
Establish a local volunteer network system in Lebanon to implement and measure the effectiveness of the new curriculum.
Task 3
Raise funds for future Camp Rafiqi programs.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
We will expand our presence and operations to Ghana, a country where almost 180,000 visually-impaired individuals are neglected
Task 1
Send representatives to Ghana to assess applicability of our model and identify unique challenges faced by blind youths locally.
Task 2
Develop partnerships with various organisations, institutions, and individuals to help ETI execute our integration model.
Task 3
Host information sessions and workshops to inform the public about our work and recruit children for 2013 Ghana camp program.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
Sara Minkara returns to Lebanon each summer, like many Lebanese-Americans. However, her summers there were rather atypical vacations. Her visual impairment was more prominent in the Lebanese society and even despite her strong educational successes in the US she was discouraged time and time again. The fact that she had sight problems however, only made her more determined to help others never lose hope of their vision. In the summer of 2009, after her sophomore year at Wellesley College, Minkara received funding from the College and the Clinton Global Initiative University Outstanding Commitment Award to start a summer camp that focused on integrating and empowering blind students in Lebanon. The camp was held in Tripoli, Lebanon and was a success! The overwhelming enthusiasm from both volunteers (Lebanese college students) and the campers (blind and sighted campers from Tripoli) led Minkara to continue her work through forming a nonprofit organization, Empowerment Through Integration
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We established relationships with various local disability organizations, schools and handicap union in Lebanon to recruit youths and volunteers for our camps since 2009. We have been partnering with local schools, government, Lebanon Minister of Education and small business to obtain use of facilities, funding, and food donations. We are now partnered with MIT research to derive a low-cost curriculum for blind youth and planning for a swimming program with Making Waves in Canada.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
ETI will best benefit from a team of experienced staff working with a diverse pool of local volunteers, notably alumni’s of Camp Rafiqi programs. Staffs are responsible to keep ETI on track with its growth milestones. Volunteers will promote ETI’s causes and allow our programs to adapt to the changing needs of the community. Local investment in ETI’s mission is essential to ensure meaningful integration of the visually impaired population into society.
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Our idea is very unique and could easily be implemented in other countries for other marginalized populations. Our research and information can be used in schools.
Created on 03/7/2012 by L'Arche Canada
L'Arche knows the transformative impact of relationships with people with intellectual disabilities. Its educational kits open students to ourshared humanity.
Organization: L'Arche Canada
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Canada, ON, Richmond Hill
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Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Other.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for less than a year
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The need is to give young people a transformative experience and a vision that will help them want to build a school community of inclusion and belonging, and then some tools to start to talk about and implement their vision. Young people often fear those who seem different from them, and they fear being different. Associating with people who are seen as “the other” might jeopardize their own belonging and inclusion. It is easier and "cool" to exclude those who are different, and even to bully them. But at the same time young people have a great desire for fairness and they want to make a difference and to change the world for the better. The vision of L'Arche and Jean Vanier, summed up in our motto, "Help Build a World Where Everyone Belongs!" calls forth student leadership.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The solution is to change understandings, perceptions and attitudes towards “the other.” When mainstream students can discover together that they are not so different from those they perceive as "other," in this case, people with intellectual disabilities, their understanding and their actions change. The “I Am…” Kit provides the kind of “aha” moment that is transformative. Students engage the content first themselves in conversation with each other, completing the sentences, “I am..., I love…, I hate…, I dream….” They then watch a short, powerful video in which young adults with intellectual disabilities complete these sentences. Silence invariably reigns! A class discussion is followed by questions and activities to deepen the learning of empathy and transform it into action. Curriculum Services Canada evaluated the “I AM...” Kit and recommends it. We know this is a powerful resource that touches students profoundly. Our contribution to the solution is to make "I AM..." go viral.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
This resource creates a space where students can first talk about their own experience of who they are. This helps them to view the video at a much deeper and more personal level. The Curriculum Services Canada (CSC) evaluation of the “I AM…” Kit states, “The DVD component is based on the actual experiences of individuals who have intellectual disabilities. The information is reliable and relevant , the language is accessible for the targeted audience” (gds. 6-12) and the “Kit presents a balanced perspective.” CSC describes the methodology: “The resource approaches the topic of inclusiveness by providing students with an experiential awareness of the common ground that exists among all people. The pre-viewing activity supports students in deepening their understanding of the DVD’s content. The post-viewing activities provide opportunities for students to engage with the DVD’s content at different levels of understanding. There are opportunities for students to develop their communications, thinking, and problem-solving skills and make personal connections as well as connections to the school community and beyond.” Art and journaling are included. The Kit inspires students to want to get to know those who have intellectual disabilities and, by extension, others who seem different. It also invites them to learn about the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Canada ratified in 2010, and to work with people with disabilities and others for its implementation in their school and region. (CSC site: http://curriculum.org/resources/258/i-am-kit.)
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
L'Arche materials flow from our lived experience. Little similar material exists. The focus on disability extends diversity education beyond ethnicity and race. Anti-bullying material focuses on the negative and tends to exclude the bully. L'Arche offers a positive approach. It awakens empathy through encounters that dissolve stereotypes. Many people in the disability field, trying to change attitudes, focus on the person with a disability, not on mainstream students. Empathy springs from a shared belonging. When we help others belong, we discover we also belong. In fact, no one can truly belong unless everyone belongs! A student wrote, this material "gave us permission to talk about loneliness, belonging--things we think about all the time but other course content does not lead into."
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L'Arche Canada's Educational Resources engage students in self-discovery and inspire them to build a world where everyone belongs.
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Through the "I AM..." Kit, students discover their similarities with those who seem very different from them in ability or limitations.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Both teachers and students love "I AM...". Since we began making the "I AM..." video known as an educational resource, its use by teachers has been growing quickly. On Vimeo, since 2009, there were 11,800 loads. In the last year, from March 29, 2011 to March 29, 2012, there were 8208 loads. The week of March 19, there were 236 loads from 16 countries. The video is also on YouTube and has been seen 14,084 times in about 2 years. The Vimeo graph (see jpg) shows that it is educators who are accessing the video--use increases greatly during the school terms and falls off dramatically in the summer, at Christmas, and at March break. We have ourselves used the video with approx. 700 teachers and principals and 3000 students in the Toronto area. I AM.. is an amateur video. We had it enhanced and put on a DVD and wrote a short teacher's guide for it last year. This is the "I AM..." Kit. While most teachers use the online version, we have sold or given away 200 Kits in the past year.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
We project that use of "I AM..." (both the online video and the hard copy Kit) will continue to grow exponentially and extend across the USA as well as Canada. In February 2012, we had the Kit evaluated by Curriculum Services Canada. The CSC recommendation and the fact that the Kit is now on the CSC website as a supplementary resource adds much credibility to it for teachers across Canada and beyond who go to this site searching for materials.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
A lack of human and financial resources limits L'Arche's ability to reach youth in traditional ways, but by engaging social-media-savy young people and by leveraging partnerships we are working to overcome this. We are on some list-serves. We will extend this. We have developed credibility with provincial Departments of Education. Alberta has an online resource for social studies using our materials. Ontario has invited us to give curriculum feedback as a stakeholder in inclusion, diversity education and the disability sector. Most provinces “recommend” our online resource "ibelong.ca." We will leverage this credibility and work with the 50 L'Arche communities across Canada and the USA to spread "I AM..." We have strong local public and Catholic (govt. funded) school board connections.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
We will have a strategic plan in place for a multifacted dissemination of I AM... and will be beginning to implement it.
Task 1
Hire a part-time media-savy young person with a passion for increasing empathy among youth.
Task 2
Develop a multifaceted strategic plan. Develop on-line advertising, splash pages etc and success measurement tools.
Task 3
Introduce "I AM..." to the 50 L'Arche communities across North America and bring them on board.
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"I AM..." will be widely talked about and used by educators in intermediate and senior secondary schools.
Task 1
Apply measurement tools to assess success.
Task 2
Get "I AM..." recommended by school boards in 10 provinces and 8 US states.
Task 3
Production of a French version of a video similar to "I AM..." will be underway in Quebec.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
(This is a founding story about "I AM..."--not about L'Arche itself, which is a much bigger story told by Jean Vanier in a book.) About 2 years ago a high school principal in the inner city with many at risk students called me to see if there was something L'Arche had--perhaps a video--that he could use for a half-day he was going to spend with grade 11 vocational students. "They are easily bored," he warned. I had just recently viewed the short "I AM..." video and suggested he ask the students to take a few minutes to complete the 4 sentences in the video with each other in several ways, and then show the video and invite their thoughts. The students were very attentive and touched. Of course, they expressed surprise that the responses of people in the video were very similar to their own. The session was a big success. The video's popularity spread by word of mouth. We put the video on Vimeo on the larche.ca Education page, enhanced it to make a DVD, and wrote a short study guide.
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1. We are linked to 136 L’Arche communities around the world, 50n in North America, each with boards of directors and friends including teachers and social workers. Few have resources for schools. 2. L’Arche Canada’s Educational Initiatives has a strong collaborative curriculum-writing relationship with the Toronto Catholic District School Board, and through its Character Education Program, the York Region District School Board. (Both boards are publicly funded.) 3. Provincial Departments of Education invite us to collaborate on Social Studies, Inclusion, Equity and Diversity curricula.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
Our team will be passionate about the well-being and growth of empathy in young people so as to create a society where every person can belong and contribute. Members will care deeply and optimistically about all young people. They will need good team, and organizational and communication skills, and imagination to innovate. One team member will be a web and media-savy young person eager to spread “I AM…” through social media. Team members will also work well with long-time national and international L’Arche people. Our network of volunteers and educators will help us with dissemination.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
We need $10,000 to implement our marketing plan. Suggestions on sources of investment would be welcome.
We would like immediate advice on how to market "I AM..." to schools in the U.S.A. Later, we want to market internationally to English and French schools.
We can be a resource for the ways people who have differing abilities are represented. We have some editing expertise.
Improving the Lives of People with Disabilities.Improving the Quality of Higher Education,Labor Migration Program,Media Development,Cross-Border Youth Cooperation,Youth Rights, Inclusion and Political Engagement
Created on 02/23/2012 by loreto sealdah kolkata
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Organization: Loreto Day School, Sealdah
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Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Social Worker.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Private (tuition-based)
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Half the world’s children not in school are Indian children. This backlog of about 50 million children belongs to the lowest levels of society – ‘hard to reach’ children living in deep slums under bridges, in bonded labour, in brickfields, in quarries, salt pans of Surat, street children, trafficked children, children of prostitutes and others for whom the normal school is not an option. And even after they have been brought into the school system what option do they have to access quality education or to be empowered to make their contribution to a society which has largely ignored them ?
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
33 years ago we opened up our big school to such marginalized children from the slums welcoming them on an equal footing in our regular school, challenging them along with their more affluent peers to reach out beyond themselves to help other children. Among the most neglected ‘others’ were the girls sleeping alone and vulnerable on the streets each night. These children were taught by the regular students during their work education periods using a special programme of accelerated learning. Later these children stayed full time in school. Thus the Rainbow Home programme was born.
Other programmes catering to 29,000 out-of-school children, financed by the SSA, as well as the children in the Brickfields, Eastern Bypass and Orissa came into being later.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Every Saturday (our school holiday), 150 students from Classes V to XII farm out into village schools outside Kolkata to do learning enhancement programme with about 3500 children in rural Government Schools. When this programme began in 1979 the enrollment in Class I averaged 50 but by Class IV only 10 children were left in school and all were boys. Now in the same areas where we have been able to construct a secondary school building for girls, there are over a thousand girls and the school has been recognized by the Government up to Class XII. The ex-students are now in college and some are married. The people impacted by this are not just the village children and their parents but also the parents and families of the students who go out, as, the whole level of understanding the plight of village children has become acute. Our Class IXs and VIIIs are now working with 1200 girls in the Government Schools, teaching them how to use the materials for other out-of-school children.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Other schools who have studied our system and are now involving their children in outreach programmes. We are different because we were first in the field. Back in 1979 no one was thinking along our lines. People found it hard to understand the concept of children giving up holidays to teach others. Now, over the years, other schools have come here to examine our system and have started in their own way. One of our biggest challenges is the growth of competition and private tuition in the affluent schools which leave the children little time for reaching out.
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An all inclusive school, challenging its students to their best potential and providing a strong hands-on social component.
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Every student in the school has exposure to situation demanding empathy and the freedom and support to take appropriate action.
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Issues Tagging :
This project tags the following issues :
a)Quality education for the marginalized in school and outside
b)Teacher training and development materials to provide for quality education
c)Empowerment of children to work with other children to inspire them to join the effort
We have mainstreamed 15000 children from our Shikshalaya Prakalpa centres for out-of-school children into Government schools
The Central Government has adopted our Rainbow Home concept for the whole country (vide Pg. 18 of Framework for Implementation by the SSA). This will mean that thousands of girls at risk on the streets will find a safe home in a school and have all her needs supplied by government funding.
Till date the Barefoot Training programme has touched the lives of over 12000 teachers, spread across 15 Indian states, Bangladesh and Nepal, impacting 350,000 rural children.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
With the RTE Act in place we will be able to provide a working model for the induction of out-of-school children into classes consonant with their age.
The impact of our programme already felt, will continue till there are no more children to be helped.
All the directives of the RTE Act, especially in relation to Quality Education is being met by us.
In West Bengal, Loreto Sealdah theme and group teaching has been taken as the model for the preparation of new text books for January 2013. Loreto Sealdah has been asked to guide this preparation. These books will benefit 7 million children.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
A change in Government policy, over which we have no control. This cannot be planned for. In such cases in the past we have been able to work around the policy and get the work done.
Financial constraints – over the years our projects have all been low cost, cost effective and supported in each case by the value of what we do.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
We plant to collaborate with the Government to open 15 homes all over Kolkata catering to 1500 children in need of residential
Task 1
Follow up with the Government to prepare the physical infrastructure
Task 2
Identify the children and prepare their cases studies
Task 3
Invite the children and parents, if they have any, to view the arrangements and if satisfactory,
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
This is the spread of concept of inclusive schooling.
Task 1
Selection of schools prepared to accept and work for inclusive schooling
Task 2
Training and workshops for parents, teachers and children
Task 3
Spreading the concept (work has already begun on tasks 1 & 2)
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
Over the years I have had many aha moments, each one resulting in the creation of a new facet to our educational interface with the kids. So what we have created now is an integrated holistic package which can be taken up by many schools and implemented.
My journey began in 1964, when I was teaching in Loreto Lucknow, when I became aware of the immense poverty, even destitution of the poor people living a stone’s throw away from our beautifully groomed Loreto Campus and I suddenly realized the potential of all schools in India to change the whole of society through educating the children to be compassionate, competent crusaders for positive change in whatever situations they find themselves, seizing every opportunity as an aha moment to respond to needs as they arise.
S. M. Cyril
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Our partnerships encompass professionals from the health, business, corporate houses, Rotary & other clubs, schools / colleges / educational institutions, consulates & embassies, government officials (state & central), Kolkata Police, media, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, railways, airlines, welfare missions & NGOs, High & Civil Court personnel, HSBC, funding agencies like Save the Children, Indian Statistical Institute, IIT & IIM, Indian Chamber of Commerce, DPEP, UNICEF, the UN, Alcoholics Anonymous, Members of challenged groups like Indian Society for Cerebral Palsy, MENTAID and a wide rang
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
Our holistic team of staff comprising of teaching, non-teaching, administrative, domestic, contacts, liaisons, visitors, donors, and a wide range of networks – all dedicated and committed to the values of giving, sharing and feeling aimed at creating a school for the community.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
As our school is a resource centre reaching out to the poorest of the poor and aimed at total inclusive schooling, we have assembled over the years a wide range of resources, material and human, and partnerships (resulting from a 33 year saga of experience), which we can and are always ready offer to any person / body / organisation who is willing to replicate our model.
Created on 02/23/2012 by WPF
We support partners who want to found peace fleet projects in their country. They receive all necessary informations about building up such a project.
Organization: World Peace Fleet
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Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Social Worker, Other.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Scaling (the next step will be growing impact on a regional or even global scale)
How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Youth violence, ethnic and social prejudices, social desintegration, social exclusion - not in a specific place, but all over the world in regions which are suitable for execution of the project. (basic requirements for the project, like nautical infrastructure, are listed in franchise contracts)
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
While sailing in a licenced peace fleet partner project all participating children get a chance to abandon prejudice and hatred, to practice peaceful conflict resolution and to form friendships across ethnical, social and religious borders. The positive effects are to strengthen their social competence, capacity for teamwork and to get a sense to react responsibly. Thousands of children have taken part in the original Mirno More project (Adriatic Sea) already. But their own valuable personal experiences and effects on their lifes are not the only outcome: additionally, many newspapers, magazines, TV-reports and radio broadcasts about the project have spread an appeal for tolerance and peaceful conflict solution to a braod public. This effect can also be expected in all future partner regions.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Sorry, I don´t understand what you mean with "primary activities". But I can give you an example how peace fleet project can help children and young people to develope social competence: children and teens from the edges of society are mixed with others to form the crews of sailing boats. They work together as a team, they learn to respect each other a equal team members. Take the case of one young skinhead who dropped off his bomber jacket and Doc Martens boots on the third day of project week, to join in wearing the peace-fleet T-shirt proudly. Ore take another case, when an austrian boy told us astonished what he had learned during this week: "They don´t stink, these refugee-children!"
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
As far as we know, there are no other educational sailing projects of this kind. Well, we could mention some initiatives working with young criminals, who are socially trained on sailing boats on long term cruises - but these are heavy cases and cost a lot of money. Our impact works a long time before youngsters are endangered by criminal surroundings.
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We provide knowhow for the foundation of licenced peace fleet partner projects.
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15 years of knowhow in building up the biggest educational sailing project will help partners to develope their own local peace fleet.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Thousands of children and young people have taken part in Mirno More Peace Fleet already. Many of them twice or more. A lot of school classes experienced this kind of social learning, and there teachers gave us fantastic feedback about positive effects. Many of these teens started to engage in young organisational helping teams and now form a big community of socially engagegd young people. Some have chosen social professions, some have founded their own social projects. But all of them carry peace fleet experience in their hearts, and spread their knowledge in their personal surroundings. Additionally, a lot of media reports about peace fleet have spreaded out a message for tolerance and understanding.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
During the next 3 years we will try to install at least 10 licenced partner projects. Two are already active: Germany and New Zealand. Other contacts are developing, for instance in Thailand, Netherlands, Poland and Romania.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
We have no money, it´s as simple as that, and nothing else is blocking the chances for success. To start building up the franchising project is a full time job, but my position as a general secretary is unpaid, and I live on jobless support-money, which is difficult with 4 children, and after 2008 accident, which hit our family. We try to raise interest by sponsoring companies. They can expect to present their engagement in all future partner countries, but at this moment we are still not able to draw their attention: we have no attractive Public Relation materials, this costs money. Right now we work on these materials together with freelancer student groups, but it takes long times to proceed.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
For year 2012 we want to install 3 licenced partner projects and motivate them to organize cruises with 2-5 ships each.
Task 1
We have to find a sponsor giving at least 25.000,- $ to be able to start real work.
Task 2
We have to support developement of our new partner organizations. ( 3 for 2012)
Task 3
We have to intensify invitations of more partner projects for the following year.
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Next year 2013 we want to have at least 6 active franchise partner projects.
Task 1
We have to find another sponsor giving at least 25.000,- $
Task 2
We have to spread this support to our partners whenever they are in need.
Task 3
We have to evaluate developement process and form a global network of partner projects.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
Till the end of the eighties I was working as a captain and charter-base manager in Yugoslavia. The collapse of this country lead to several civil wars. My hometown Vienna was flooded by refugees, my friends in my second homeland – now called Croatia – hid in trenches. What could I do? I had an idea: take children from the different war parties, and let them sail "together in one boat". Give them a chance to throw away hatred and prejudice, to work together in one team, to form friendships across ethnic borders. The effects were fantastic: while their fathers were shooting at each other, the children became friends. This is how peace fleet started, and now 100 ships are sailing along the croatian coast every year flying the peace flag. But today - after having left my job due to a tragic accident - I have a NEW vision: this wonderful project can be copied worldwide - some day a hundred peace fleets will sail....
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Mirno More NGO (which I founded, as mentioned, 1994 and left 2010) has many partner organisations such as various schools (sending their students to participate) and many pedagogic organisations. Our new NGO World Peace Fleet is at the very start and we have only a few partners:
>Mirno More itself supports us with communicative and logistic aid;
>sunshine4kids (Turkey) runs a local peace fleet already;
>Various austrian yacht clubs have joined in as supporting members.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
Our partner organisation Mirno More works with a huge team of volunteers. As soon as we can proceed with developement of our own franchise project more and more of them will join uns doing so. In this moment our team consits of app. 10 volunteers, but none of them can work for more than a few hours per week. We have to install a professional general secretary for coordination of all activities, but this can only be achieved if we manage to get financial support.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Most needed: sponsoring cooperations. All future partner projects will be attractive to Press and TV, and our sponsors will be mentioned in these reports.
We offer knowledge in maritime matters concerning central and southern Europe as well as social pedagogic knowhow in these areas.
Created on 02/21/2012 by cyconcepts
Instead of speaking for youth with disabilities, this project gives them their own voice and choice in how to impact bullying.
Organization: Community! Youth Concepts
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United States, IA, Des Moines
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United States, IA, Des Moines
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Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
After-School Provider.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Growth (your pilot is up and running, and starting to expand)
How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for less than a year
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
41% of Polk County students do not believe students treat each other with respect, and almost 15% of students do not feel safe at school. Parents, youth, and community members consistently identify bullying as an issue for youth. Through focus groups, conference presentations, and program discussions with youth, the ID Action Youth Advisory Board determined that bullying was the issue they wanted to impact. Based on their own experiences of bullying and isolation, they identified disability-related bullying as a need. In particular, they saw a strong need for youth to hear from a youth with a disability about what their experience with a disability has been, how they have faced bullying, and how they have overcome challenges in their lives.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The solution identified by the ID Action Youth Advisory Board was to develop a presentation on bullying and disabilities that they gave to middle school students. In particular, they asked educators to identify students who had experienced bullying or who had disabilities for attendance, though all students were welcome to participate. The Youth Advisory Board led youth through a series of activities, including discussion of public service announcements, role-playing, a self-assessment of bullying behaviors, sharing their personal stories of struggle and overcoming barriers, and the discussion of movie clips from "Temple Grandin", a movie about the accomplishments of a woman who has autism. In this manner, the Youth Advisory Board engaged middle school student groups in discussion of bullying and disabilities to enable younger youth to problem solve, educate them about people with disaiblities, identify with older youth, and offer hope for people experiencing bullying.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
One way this project makes a difference is the impact it had on the ally youth. The KWAKers (Kids with a “Kause) were a test group for the presentation and then attended another event with the Board as allies. Because of the project, the group understood disabilities and bullying in a broader way. Before the project, the KWAKer youth had little experience interacting with youth with disabilities. Any anxiety that the KWAKers had going into the project was put to rest upon meeting the group. The presentation invited opinions and discussion from everyone involved. The experience of being bullied was a powerful, unifying element for the two groups. The stories prompted one KWAKer member to share his own struggles that were not unlike those shared by several of the ID Action youth. During the first presentation, the KWAKers looked upon the ID Action youth with admiration as members took turns getting up in front of the classroom to tell their stories. For the KWAKers, it was a powerful and effective experience that changed pre-conceived notions. In the end, one of the KWAKers observed that the youth in both groups were more alike than they were different.
The broad strengths of the project were three-fold: the ID Action Youth Advisory Board members gained confidence, pride, and presentation skills; the KWAKers understood disabilities in a broader way and made friends with people with disabilities; and the presentation participants witnessed this partnership, learned about ways to combat bullying, and reflected on their own attitudes and experiences.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
The Iowa Department of Education is implementing a Safe and Supportive Schools grant and is engaging youth through advisory boards to address school climate issues. We are targeting middle school youth, and their focus is high school. One focus of our project is to empower youth with disabilities to impact bullying, while their scope encompasses more than bullying and the general student population. We see both efforts as beneficial and addressing different niches and age groups within the issue.
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Instead of speaking for youth with disabilities, this project gives them their own voice and choice in how to impact bullying.
Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
This project utilizes youth with disabilities who have experienced bullying to impact the issue by sharing their lessons learned.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
This project provided the KWAKers with an understanding of what it is like to have a disability and created a bridge between the two groups by focusing on what they had in common. The ID Action group encouraged the KWAKers to be true to themselves, prompted all to intervene if they saw someone being bullied, and taught youth that they are not alone and anyone can overcome challenges. When they completed the presentation, Board members felt a sense of leadership, ownership, and responsibility to help others. 15 youth have experienced the presentation. Based on the self-report, it is clear that bullying behavior is common among middle school students, and interventions will be critical to the way students deal with these experiences. Participant attitudes about people with disabilities were measured, and more students held positive attitudes toward people with disabilities than negative attitudes. This was even more so the case for the KWAKers.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
The group is expected to impact a greater number of youth and adults over the next year. The group regularly receives requests from adults to hear about their intervention methods and will present to 100 adults at a spring conference. If funded to continue, the project is expected to impact bullying two-fold: by introducing adults to youth ideas on how to address the issue, and by involving middle school youth in discussions and activities around bullying. Over the next year, it is the goal of the group to reach at least four more metro youth groups and an additional 60 youth. As measured on an attitudinal survey, participants are expected to increase positive attitudes toward people with disabilities.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
One challenge of the project is that most of the presenting youth are enrolled in high school or college, which would prevent them from being available during the school day. Since CYC coordinates several school-based and linked after school programs, the group plans to present to groups during after school programming. Teachers and administrators will be invited to participate to provide crossover to the school day and curriculum.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Engage 30 additional youth from two new youth groups in the presentation.
Task 1
Conduct outreach to after school groups in school-linked programs to make them aware of the opportunity.
Task 2
Engage ID Action Youth Advisory Board to make any adaptations to their presentation and practice.
Task 3
Present the idea to adults attending the Family 2 Family Conference and invite them to bring the group into their programming.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Engage 60 additional youth from four new youth groups in the presentation.
Task 1
Conduct outreach to school groups to make them aware of the opportunity.
Task 2
Engage ID Action Youth Advisory Board to make any adaptations to their presentation and practice.
Task 3
Present the idea to adults in various community groups and invite them to bring the group into their programming.
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world [125 words]
The ID Action Youth Advisory Board was in the middle of brainstorming community needs that they wanted to impact through service learning. Amelia Colwell Reedy (the founder) asked the group how they would impact bullying, which came up as the issue of greatest importance to the youth. The youth said they would return to their former middle schools to talk with students about their experiences with disabilities and bullying to bring understanding and problem solving skills to youth. It was then that Colwell Reedy said, "Let's make it happen, then!" She saw great potential in the voices of youth with disabilities impacting bullying firsthand, to a different extent than adults could. She saw the potential in each youth present to have a positive effect on how the community viewed people with disabilities and how they viewed bullying.
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CYC partners with metro area school districts to conduct multiple after school programs. The organization also networks with youth-serving nonprofits to offer programming to youth and training and assessment services to youth workers. The organization is involved in several systems development efforts within state and local entities to further youth development within a variety of sectors. The organization also works with funders and donors to identify critical needs in the community and address them. CYC works with nonprofits to identify their needs that youth can impact.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
For this project, CYC will rely on the full staff (5 people) to explore their networks for potential presentation opportunities. CYC staff regularly interact with youth workers through conferences, training, and programming, and all are aware of the opportunity to offer this presentation. In particular, the staff member with past experience in facilitating this group and other groups of youth with disabilities will lead the project. The volunteer engaged as the KWAKer facilitator will be engaged to help determine strategies for engaging additional youth.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
CYC's greatest needs for this project are investment in the effort and marketing it successfully through media and other outlets.
Created on 02/10/2012 by jonCFU
We provide film and graphic design to charities and other companies and offer training and development opportunities to young people.
Organization: Community Film Unit
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Country of residence of entrepreneur
UK
Tell us about your personal background. Why are you passionate about this issue? Making an idea a reality takes innovation, dedication and strong leadership. Do you have the necessary entrepreneurial skills to realize your vision?
I have always been passionate about creative media - music, film and design. I have been involved in all of these field since my early teens. The Community Film Unit was recently formed to make high-quality promotional materials available to the private, public and third sector. The company offers unrivalled training and shadowing opportunities for young people to come and work on professional projects, learning technical and creative skills that significantly boost their employment prospects. The Film Unit also administrates a small grant which makes filmmaking training and promotional filmmaking more affordable and accessible for smaller organisations who are supporting good causes in their communities.
When I graduated from University I was confronted with an incredible bleak climate for employment, and so the Community Film Unit is a solution which aids young people (generally between 14-25 years old) to develop skills and experience in the media field.
In our relatively short history, we have worked with a range of organisations including our local County Council, the NHS and charities which support young, elderly and disabled people in our local community.
Organization Country
United Kingdom, XX, Staines
Country where this project is creating social impact
United Kingdom, XX, Throughout United Kingdom
Is your organization a
For‐profit
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The Community Film Unit mainly addresses two social issues: we provide training and developmental opportunities for young people, and we provide promotional materials for charities and small community organisations at a fair and affordable price without compromising quality.
Youth unemployment at the UK currently sits at just under 25% - 1 in 4 people, so it's hugely important for people aged under 25 to have access to free training and development opportunities, and at the moment these are incredibly scarce.
Similarly, at a time when economic conditions are forcing many charities and community organisations to save money, many of them are scaling back their investment in self-promotion and marketing.
The Community Film Unit's business model addresses both of these problems.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The Community Film Unit offers free developmental and training placements to people aged under 25 where they can shadow and receive instruction from senior staff members and work on professional filmmaking projects.
The CFU works primarily for the public and third sector, providing cost-effective film and graphic design materials to help organisations of all sizes promote their existence and achievements, and to communicate information to the public that improves their quality of life.
We also administrate a small grant that provides match funding for filmmaking projects throughout the UK, enabling small charities, youth groups and community organisations to promote themselves on a scale that they would not otherwise be able to afford or justify.
We frequently co-produce films with our client organisations - putting young or vulnerable people at the heart of the filmmaking process where they can gain valuable technical and personal skills and experience.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
One recent project we completed was for an organisation called Employability - they help people with learning disabilities to improve their CV and gain paid employment. We made a film which focused on four success stories for the organisation which they now use to attract new businesses to support the scheme, and encourage others with learning difficulties to take advantage of their service.
As a result of the film we produced, three members of Employability subsequently came for a work experience placement at the Community Film Unit where they learned to operate a broadcast camera, use industry-standard video editing software and record and produce their own music.
We have already been contacted by Employability with a view to make a 'sequel' to this film, to be produced under our supervision by the members of their organisation whom we have previously trained.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Whilst there area range of other opportunities that train young people in filmmaking, we are the only organisation in our region that provides young people the opportunity to work on broadcast-quality, professionally commissioned projects, which is brilliant for their CVs.
Our attitude to co-production distinguishes us from our competitors as it allows our clients a chance to build transferable skills and independently produce their own film resources.
Other community video projects that operate in the same area as us, rather than posing challenges to our growth, can potentially be useful contacts. Small local groups have recently contacted us with a view to getting our help for projects that they don't have the equipment or staff to complete on their own.
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Operating for 1-5 years
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Last year we produced over 4500 DVDs for our clients, and several more products (films and leaflets) which were distributed physically and online. We estimate that around 18000-20000 people saw our work last year.
We also delivered an average of 20-25 hours of developmental opportunities per week for young people, and we also provided long-term opportunities for two apprentices and a university placement student to join us for a year.
We worked with over 40 different organisations to promote their aims and achievements, and whilst it is very difficult to assess the impact of our contribution to their projects (the success of their projects can't be attributed solely to our videos), we have saved these organisations thousands of pounds by providing a quality service at a fair price.
What barriers might hinder the success of your business? How do you plan to overcome them?
As a trading company, our ability to invest in opportunities for young people and small organisations is dependent on our ability to attract enough daily trade to pay our small body of staff. In the long-term this will involve expanding our client base into the private sector, and attracting long-term contract from the private and public sector. We are already adapting our business model to make us more appealing to the private sector, and have recently secured a two-year contract to make training resources for Surrey County Council. As we continue to gain these commitments, our long-term future becomes more and more secure.
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Our model encourages financial stability by employing a multi-skilled staff who have experience in a range of creative media disciplines. We also offer opportunities through apprenticeship and placement year schemes, which allow us to reward employees by providing them with real responsibilities and developmental training rather than by paying them an extravagant salary. We save a lot of money by producing almost all of our product in-house, including our own promotional materials and website.
Our model addresses financial and social stability in our client organisations by providing them training and shadowing opportunities which build their own skill sets, and enable them to produce their own promotional film resources. This means they do not have to continually pay for each individual films on an ongoing basis.
The only part of the production process which we do outsource is the printing and duplication of our design products and DVDs. We are committed to finding ethical and environmentally conscious suppliers to meet our clients needs, and we are in the process of establishing working relationships with other social enterprises that work in this field.
Our previous work has included projects which actively promote social development and integration, legislation which gives disabled people more control over their finances, and encourage people to cycle to work rather than drive.
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Social Entrepreneurship fosters the support of the local community by tackling issues which are important to them, and by believing in community investment and development over lining the pockets of owners and shareholders.
Businesses depend upon investment, but not in a purely financial sense. Only by engaging their local community can businesses secure the time, trust and emotional investment of their immediate clients, which will ultimately determine whether they succeed or fail. Social enterprises benefit enormously from two-way relationships of this nature.
Based on this, Social Entrepreneurship is essential to the improvement of developing countries, as without this relationship to the community underpinning everything the company does, any enterprise will ultimately reach a size where it is more lucrative to move away to a stronger economic centre, leaving their local community to stagnate rather than develop.
What aspects of your stay in Uganda as part of the competition do you think you will find most challenging and rewarding?
Our organisation almost exclusively markets and promotes our products through the internet, so I would relish the opportunity to work in an entirely non-digital environment. I think there will be a lot of strategies that can translate roughly from one environment to the other that I could contribute from my background, and also learn that I can take back to my enterprise.
I am looking forward to the opportunity to live with the farmers, and be inspired by the passion of people who live with their business, having very little boundaries between their lives, and their livelihoods.
The social business knowledge sharing will also be enormously valuable - we have a very unique existence (being based in a youth centre at the heart of a community and balancing professional trade with training young people). I would love to share our experience, and meet others from similarly exciting circumstances to learn about their own achievements.
Created on 02/9/2012 by CIREC
CIREC,es una organización sin ánimo de lucro dedicada a la rehabilitación integral de la población en situación de discapacidad y victima del conflicto armado.
Organization: Centro Integral de Rehabilitación de Colombia CIREC
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Centro Integral de Rehabilitación de Colombia CIREC
Country where this project is creating social impact
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
*Premio de Beneficencia, Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar 1985
*La orden al Merito de Progreso en la Categoría de Caballero, Cámara de Comercio Colombo Americana, 1987
*Premio Honorifico Imserso España 1991
*Orden civil al mérito ciudad de Bogotá en el grado de Gran Oficial 1992
*Premio Carlos Lleras Restrepo, A la mejor Gestión de diseño de Producto- 1997
*Premio Comunicación, Integración Social e Investigación, Imserso España 1997
*Mujer CAFAM 2000 (Jeannette Perry de Saravia, Presidente Fundadora CIREC)
*Gran Canciller de la Orden Nacional al Merito Cruz de Plata 2001
*Premio Policarpa Salavarrieta
*Mujer del año categoría Salud otorgada por Master card y la revista Glamur.
*Niarchos Prize Survivorship 2005
*Condecoración de Salud y Merito Asistencial “Jorge Bejarano” 2006
*Reconocimiento por parte del Departamento de estado en los años 2007 y 2011
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
*RHANDA NEME: Presidente del Grupo CHAIDMENE Cra 7a No.26-20 Ed Tequendama - rneme@chaidneme.com.co – 57 1 210 56 11
*MIGUEL KRAUSZ: Presidente de GRASCO S.A, Carrera 35 No. 7-50 Piso 2 - mkrausz@grasco.com – 57 1 2 01 59 50
*JEAN CLAUDE BESSUDO: Presidente AVIATUR, Carrera 11 No. 82-01 Piso 4, jbessudo@aviatur.com.co – 57 1 621 46 46
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How long have you been in operation?
Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
En Colombia, cerca del 6,4% de la población, según datos del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE, 2005), presenta una discapacidad física y el 29.3% de este grupo poblacional, presenta limitaciones permanentes para caminar o moverse.
Lo anterior presenta un panorama en el cual el acceso se convierte en la principal barrera para que la población con discapacidad pueda tener la atención necesaria y un proceso de Rehabilitación Integral. Es por esto, que la TELEREHABILITACION se vislumbra como una solución que permite llegar a las personas que se encuentran en las zonas rurales mas apartadas del país, en dónde más del 98% de eventos relacionados con minas antipersonal ocurren, afectando de manera directa su calidad de vida y su proceso de inclusión social.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
el proyecto de TELEREHABILITACION busca Cambiar la forma de prestar los servicios de salud especializados y las actividades focalizadas en la rehabilitación integral de poblaciones vulnerables tales como: víctimas sobrevivientes de minas antipersonal, personas en situación de discapacidad física, comunidades afectadas por el conflicto armado del país y que se encuentran en condición de desplazamiento ubicadas en regiones apartadas de nuestro país a través del programa SEMILLAS DE ESPERANZA el cual es un programa que utiliza la estrategia de rehabilitación basada en comunidad, RBC, para dar respuesta a las necesidades de este tipo de población en Colombia, promoviendo el desarrollo de la comunidad para conseguir su integración a la vida familiar, social y laboral.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Nuestra iniciativa busca prestar los servicios de rehabilitación integral desarrollados por CIREC soportado en TICs a través de nuestra red de SEMILLAS DE ESPERANZA facilitando la inclusión social de poblaciones vulnerables
Para implementar dicha iniciativa el proyecto se apoyara en la red SEMILLAS DE ESPERANZA y se basara en el desarrollo de un prototipo entre Bogotá y Tibu (norte de Santander una de las ciudades más afectadas por el conflicto y donde la población no puede acceder a servicios de salud especializada y actividades localizadas en rehabilitación) a partir de este prototipo se definirán los lineamientos y requerimientos necesarios para desarrollar este tipo de soluciones tecnológicas dentro de nuestro país en el marco de nuestras demás asociaciones.
Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, se contemplan las siguientes etapas para desarrollar dicha iniciativa:
1.Fase 1: Diagnóstico, Capacitación y Divulgación (IDENTIFICACIÓN DE LOS REQUERIMIENTOS TIC y SELECCIÓN DEL CAPITAL TIC)
2.Fase 2: Puesta en marcha e investigación (AJUSTAR E INTEGRAR EL SERVICIO DE TELEREHABILITACION Y OPERACIÓN)
3.Fase 2: Prestación del servicio Y consolidación de Resultados (ANÁLISIS Y CONSOLIDACIÓN DE RESULTADOS)
Por último, es importante resaltar, que las fases no son independientes, sino que están relacionadas entre sí, proponiendo así una nueva forma en la prestación de atención en salud de rehabilitación física entre el usuario final y el profesional de la salud, mediante el empleo de las tecnologías de la telecomunicación y de la información TICs.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
El número estimado para el piloto de TIBU sería de unos 37833 usuarios entre los que se encuentran los procesos de PROTESIS, ORTESIS y AYUDAS TECNICAS, dichos datos son suministrados por informes de las brigadas de salud desarrolladas por CIREC y la red semillas de esperanza.
Colombia en el campo de la telemedicina está realizando una incursión por apropiarse en este tipo de soluciones, tanto del sector financiero como el educativo un ejemplo de ello es la universidad Nacional y la fundación Santa fe, pero ninguna de ellas tiene un conocimiento robusto frente a rehabilitación física como lo tenemos nosotros CIREC, y es por esto que nosotros seriamos los pioneros en implementar telerehabilitacion en el país, basándonos en nuestros procedimientos y en nuestras buenas practicas.
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Jeannette Perry de Saravia Desde hace más de 40 años, se ha destacado por su trabajo para ayudar a las personas en situación de discapacidad en Colombia,
Jeannette se ha preocupado por el mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida de las personas en situación de discapacidad y durante los últimos diez años, particularmente a las víctimas de minas antipersonal. Hoy en día su obra ha logrado llegar a los municipios más afectados por el conflicto armado en el país a través del programa SEMILLAS DE ESPERANZA y sus programas de desarrollo comunitario que empoderan localmente a líderes que están atravesando por una situación de discapacidad y los convierte en auto-gestores de una transformación social.
Gracias a los resultados obtenidos en todo este tiempo, Jeannette logró ligar a CIREC con la Comisión Intersectorial nacional para la acción integral contra minas antipersonal, dirigida por la Vice-Presidencia de la República a través del Programa de Acción Integral contra minas antipersonal.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Prestar los servicios de rehabilitación integral desarrollados por CIREC soportados en TICs a poblaciones vulnerables tales como: víctimas sobrevivientes de minas antipersonal, personas en situación de discapacidad física y comunidades afectadas por el conflicto armado y que se encuentran ubicadas en regiones de difícil acceso geográfico.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Actualmente estamos creciendo geográficamente con nuestra red de SEMILLA DE ESPERANZA lo cual ha sido un desafío realmente grande, ya que en nuestro país el conflicto armado aún está latente y hay muchas víctimas minas antipersonal en lugares de difícil acceso geográfico. La creación de esta red ha mejorado la relación en este tipo de comunidades pero a través de esta iniciativa en telerehabilitación se ofrecerá una nueva solución a la prestación de servicios de salud especializados en rehabilitación a las personas en condición de discapacidad física, facilitando de esta forma el crecimientos de nuevos e innovadores servicios de salud a otras organizaciones e instituciones, buscando mejorar la calidad de vida de este tipo de poblaciones aprovechando la tecnología actual.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Las actividades continuaran implementándose porque culminado el proceso de fortalecimiento a la capacidad local en cada una de las regiones por parte de CIREC las autoridades locales entidades privadas y comunidades de base tendrán una alta capacidad instalada local que les permitirá prolongar las acciones a partir de la gestión recursos necesarios para la continuidad de estas y la innovación de programas tecnológicos como el proyecto de telerehabiltiacion.
Este proyecto brinda formación capacitación y asesoría a las comunidades de base y las víctimas de los grupos Semillas de Esperanza en la gestión de proyectos para la consecución de recursos que permitirá que se mantenga la acción en el tiempo en donde las comunidades se encargaran de implementar los conocimientos adquiridos.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
*La conectividad. El proyecto esta basado en Tecnologías de la información y la comunicación y dependemos del tipo conexión a utilizar (ya sea satelital o a través de las redes celulares) generara un impacto significativo en la prestacion de este tipo de servicios*La posición geográfica de los municipios afectados de Colombia. Nuestro prototipo se implementara en regiones rurales de difícil acceso por ello se seleccionó a Tibu como punto de partida, debido al trabajo tan arduo que presenta la organización al momento de prestar sus servicios de rehabilitación integral y sus brigadas de salud en este tipo de lugares y al gran número de pacientes que se encuentran en esta región y le es difícil desplazarse a ciudades para desarrollar su proceso de rehabilitación.
*la falta de conocimiento
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
el proyecto de telerehabilitacion tiene las siguientes actividades proyectadas para el desarrollo en 6 meses.
Task 1
Evaluación de la situación actual del país frente a la conectividad
Task 2
Análisis y definición de los requerimientos para la prestación de los servicios en telecomunicaciones
Task 3
Desarrollo del prototipo de telerehabilitación e implementacion del servicio localmente.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
A partir de la rehabilitación soportada en TICs se generaran los siguientes hitos y actividades
Task 1
Establecer una metodología y un cronograma de actividades para la implementación de un servicio de Rehabilitación a distancia.
Task 2
Conformar un grupo de recursos humanos con conocimientos multidisciplinarios para la consolidación del proyecto
Task 3
Documentar y conceptualizar este tipo de prestación de servicios de salud a través de telerehabilitacion
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El Centro Integral de Rehabilitación de Colombia y su programa Semillas de Esperanza reconstruyen desde 1990 el tejido social en poblaciones que han resultado afectadas por el conflicto armado colombiano, a partir de una estrategia basada en comunidad que optimiza los recursos regionales y construye alianzas que permiten generar desarrollo local, favoreciendo a víctimas del conflicto armado interno, especialmente aquellas víctimas y sobrevivientes de las minas antipersonales (MAP) y MUSE y sus familias.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Cirec aporta al proyecto documentación, metodologías y un prototipo tecnológico de referencia al momento de prestar servicios en telerehabilitación al sistema de salud nacional.
•Definira los parámetros y los requerimientos necesarios de infraestructura tecnológica para replicar este tipo de servicio a nivel local y nacional.
•Se conformar un modelo económico, reglamentario y ético para prestar servicios de salud especializada y actividades focalizadas en el campo de la rehabilitación integral bajo telerehabilitación sirviendo de marco de referencia para otras organizaciones que deseen implementar este servicio.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
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Created on 02/8/2012 by M. Ganesan
We provide low cost high quality mental health services at population level using innovative interventions and by instilling hope.
Organization: Ministry of Health, Government of Sri Lanka
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More than 5 years
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Quality, Equity.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
In Batticaloa in 1999, I was the only psychiatrist for a population of 1.4 million. No specific funding was provided by the Ministry to develop services. People did not know who a psychiatrist was and they spent money on traditional healers. The mental health needs of this population were many, made worse by war, poverty, poor health and social services. Very often we separate the client from the community and family they live in. I try to keep the community & family involvement to the max & use them as part of the therapeutic team. In most mental health services the staff is tired and burned out. I created a team of professionals that were motivated, interested and client centered. I wanted to set up a different type of service that will be more acceptable to all with very little resource
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
• Develop an accessible & friendly service to meet the mental health needs. Access refers to distances & to accessing services. Even though the services themselves are free, no subsidy is provided for the travel to the clinic. We want to minimize this expense & time. The other factor is to reduce the red tape involved in getting access to the service. We also focus on friendly service especially since we’re in an area where people are not familiar with psychiatry
• Development is driven by feasibility, interest shown by partners, equity. We had to depend on NGOs who often had their own agenda. We had to negotiate to keep our goals in the focus and to not include patients from adjacent districts to avoid over-loading and poor care.
• Providing services for the seriously mentally ill was a priority. But over time we included child protection, gender based violence, conflict resolution, services for the intellectually disabled children etc.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
In-patient care is a necessary part of any treatment system for mental health problems. However, we try to manage them in the community as much as possible. A doctor & a nursing officer jointly assess all admissions and this team continues to care for the patient & family. In some sensitive cases or at the request of client we don’t involve the family. During the stay in the hospital, a family member is with the patient at all times so the patient doesn’t feel abandoned.
Very often, a negative incident at home or community would have preceded the admission. This would have caused a great deal of anxiety and consternation to the family. After the admission with treatment the disease and behaviour associated with it improves. If the family is not with the client, they will no be able to see this improvement and their opinion of the client will be dominated by the negative incident that happened at home. Due to the stigma the family is often in the dark about mental illnesses. So when a family member is affected they have lots of worries and concerns. In the ward they have an opportunity to interact with family members of other clients. This helps them to realize that there are others with similar problems and alps have hope as they see others recovering and going home. There is also sharing of tips as to mange issues.
We were also the first unit in Sri Lanka to offer a phone facility for clients to call and receive calls from 2002 onwards. Now this has been replicated in five units around the country.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
There are many systems of mental health care around the world. In the beginning, they were cared for in the community and then the asylums started and then care was moved back into the community. In-spite of the many systems around the world almost none has proved satisfactory in spite of the large expenditure. The consumer movements are very critical of most services. Aggressive advertising by the drug companies and the training of psychiatrists have contributed to this.
The “Soteria” movement that started in US comes to close to what we are trying to offer. This is practiced in a modified from in Europe after its death in US. In none of these places, they take responsibility to offer care for a population, instead carefully select a few clients for their programs.
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When I was a medical student in 1987, as part of our training in mental health we visited the large mental hospital in Colombo for a day. The horrible situation there really struck me and I decided to become a psychiatrist to try to correct it though at that time I had no clue as to how to provide better care. Then during my postgraduate training in psychiatry, I was working in an organization that provided domiciliary visits to client’s houses. This was the time realised the importance of homely environment both in the physical and emotional sense and the importance of investing time in developing long-term relationship.
This is when I started thinking of transferring this concept on a large scale to a population. I started to look at different models in a critical manner. Very often there is big difference between the rhetoric and practice.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The goal is to provide a mental health care package at low cost and acceptable to the client, family and community. This will be done through a humanistic approach by developing a long-term partnership with client and the family, and involving the family as part of the therapeutic team while valuing the client’s independence.
We do not accept that chronic mental illnesses like schizophrenia invariably lead to deterioration of function and life long medication. We hold the patient responsible for his/ her behaviour and encourage them to be empowered to take control of their own recovery process. We do accept that a few of the clients will need long-term support and rehabilitation. However, we believe this to be a very small population.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We started this program in Batticaloa (population 550,000) then we extended it to Ampara (population 450,000). Now, this model with slight modifications is being used to provide care for over 2 million in North & East Sri Lanka. Over 7 small acute in-patient units (bed strength 12 in each) provide care close to their homes. Out-patient services are provided for the whole population within 5 -6 Km from their homes with easy access.
While the rehabilitation facilities in the South are overflowing with high demand, the 3 facilities in the region are under-utilized due to lack of demand. This is because most of our clients are leading productive lives in their own communities.
We were the 1st to start services for survivors of Gender based violence & now there are these facilities in 8 hospitals. With our support in the east, over 500 children with intellectual disability who were staying at home with their right to education denied are attending schools / centres like their siblings.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Thousands of persons suffering from mental health problems will receive care in a friendly, respectful manner. Over 400 children with intellectual disability will get their right to education met. Over the next five years, I want to get the message to the rest of the country. The complex health system makes learning within the system very diffucult.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Nursing & medical professionals are interested but find it difficult to grasp as it goes against their professional training. Traditional model of mental health is based on the medical model. These professionals are not really interested to see the differences; they would rather attribute this to different patient groups and funding support from NGOs rather than try and understand the subtle differences. This is what happened to Soteria model in USA.
Due to funding we have failed to document the process. This too has contributed to the difficulty in getting the message across. Gradually the consumer groups mushrooming around the country could force the administrators to look hard at the model. However, these organizations are in a nascent state and it will take a while for this to happen.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Task 1
Identify key stakeholders to implement the project in both the districts where I plan to expand into
Task 2
Identify the space and the manpower necessary to implement the project in the area
Task 3
Sell the idea to funding agencies, ensure implementation & provide support to key personnel delivering services to the consumers
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
extend the project to other developing countries / middle income countries where input to mental health services is poor
Task 1
share the model with examples and the rationale to other countries / regions that could benefit
Task 2
arrange visits to see working model so they can see the feasibility in their home country or how it could be adapted
Task 3
Offer advice and support to set-up similar or modified services in other countries
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We have partnership with many different organizations. Some are WHO, CAMH, UNICEF, World Vision, IMHO, Basic Needs, VSO, Swiss Red Cross, CARE international, Kinderburg, American Jewish World Service and some local oranizations.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
I am targeting two districts that were badly affected by the recently ended civil war in Sri Lanka. These are Killinochchi and Mullaithivu districts in the Northern province.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
A Space for innovation within the ministry of Health in Sri Lanka and support from local health administrators help to implement the project. We try to create a non-hierarchical team of workers who are motivated to help this marginalized group of people. Capacity building through experiential learning, limited didactic teaching and continuous support help build capacity.
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Created on 02/8/2012 by dawngdouglas
Educating school personnell on ASD and improve empathy. Provide play equipment and assistive technology to help ASD children be successful.
Organization: Wholistic Family Resources
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United States, NC, Fairmont, Robeson County
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United States, NC, Fairmont, Robeson County
Is your organization a
Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Social Worker, Other.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Robeson county is full of poverty and individuals that have little to no education. Current school administration,and teachers have little to no knowledge on how to meet the needs of Autistic children. The Public Schools of Robeson County needs adequate education on how to write appropriate and measureable IEP goals for children on the Autism Spectrum of Disorders. There is no bridge between the community/families/children and the Public School System in this county. I want to be the bridge that fills the gap for these children with the school system by providing advocacy, training to educational staff, promoting volunteers, and getting the community involved so that the school system has no choice but to change the lives of these children for the better.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The solution to this problem is that Wholistic Family Resources staff and volunteer advocates will provide training to the local schools or the Public School System as a whole, advocation for chidlren and families, and purchase medically necessary technology that Medicaid and/or other insurance plans do not cover or for families that cannot afford to purchase them. Robeson County one of the poorest if not the poorest conty in the state of North Carolina cant or wont provide the tools that could change hundrreds of chidlren's lives. If sensory equipment, Dyslexia aids, Dyscalculia aids, ADHD aids, and aids to improve fine motor skills all of these children could learn. Training, educaion, tutoring by volunteers, and learning aids/tools could solve the problem of a lack of empathy by the school system.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Traning to the school personnell will be provided worshop style that will include information and assistance from referral to IEP implementation. Hopefully this will ensure that no child or family's rights are violated so that every child will receive a FAPE {free and public education}. Assistive technology will be provided so that teachers can effectively teach. Assistive technology and adaptive devices will be provided to children and their families to assist with overall symptom management to help them be successful in all areas. A simple colored ttransparency covering reading material has changed at least 5 to 10 of the children that I teach from failing grades to passing. In this tri racial county cultural competence is a common barrier between the school system and families. There is also a fast growing Hispanic population in our County that are in need of advocation and support. The Lumbee tribe and its members still live in traditional ways and are not trusting of any "outsider". There are many grandparents rearing their grandchildren due to the drug problem in this area. The generational gap and "old ways" of communication and trust hinder many children with special needs. Wholistic Family Resources hopes to help all stakeholders come togehter in a neutral environment so that everyone feels safe, represented, and empathy can be fostered. We are seeking capital to provide families with education, assistive te4chnology and parent advocates. The model is empirically based; the multidisciplinary team approach is research based and allows participation by everyone.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
There are currently no other offices like ours. North Carolina's mental health system is still in deivesture status with private providers inadequately providing services to the families. We are currently advocating and attending meetings and linking resources with no reimbursement.
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Wholistic Family Resources will help children on the ASD; by educating school personell in hopes that they have empathy.
Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]
We are a third party that seeks to educate the Public Schools of Robeson County and the disadvantged children on the ASD.
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
At least three children have been properly represented and assisted in IEP meetings and compoensatory edeucation has been awarded due to rights being violated. Appropriate and measureable goals for Autism were implementd in the IEP instead of "cookie cutter" goals. The staff in the IEP meetings that we have been a part of were educated on the actual symptoms of the Autism spoectrum that have a profound effect on their educational success. The community feels that my practice is a place that they can come for help.
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
The projected impact on the community and the children in the area in which we serve will be one of caring, respect, and self sustainability. The impact on the school system to include administraitve school board pesonell and teachers will be an increased knowledge of children on the Autism Spectrum and empathy for the fchidlren and families that live with this mental illness every day. The community will know what Autism Sppectrum Disorders are and that there is treatment provided by competent play therapists and Psychiatrists to help mange symptoms along with play therapy equipment and assistive technology. The school system will be able to ensure that children on the Autism Spectrum recieve the best education that is offered and that no rights are violated.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Resistance from the School System.
Reluctance from the community.
That some individuals may seek our services for an outcome that does not have gooid intentions..
Success will come from observeable outcomes within the children in the community and empathy from all. We must ensure at all times that WZholistic Family Resoures wishes to be a part of the team of the Public Schools of Robeson County; not an enemy that engages in territorial wars.
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Gowth will be achieved by an increase in IEP meetings, achieved IEP goal, and reduced compensation due to chil
Task 1
Form a strong alliance with the Public Schools of Robeson County to bridge the gap.
Task 2
Involve the community by soliticing parent advocate volunteers and other buisness owners to help sustain the mission.
Task 3
Provide Autistic children identified as in need with assistive/play therapy equipment, and other educational aids.
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An adequate meeting space for trainings and a sensory play room for any Autistic child in need.
Task 1
Continue to foster trust with the Public Schools of Robeso County and the County Comissioners to improve empathy.
Task 2
Seek in kind labor and materials for the addition of a meeting space and sensory room.
Task 3
Hire a part time Occupational and Speech Therapist to provide services as well as seek OT's and SLP's to volunteer their service
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When I began solely working in a prvate practie on an every day basis the number of chidlren that presented to me with behavior problems had never been assessed for elarning problems. children act out in school to hide that they actually have troube learning. These children were getting lost in the shuffle of every day educational red tape. Parents were being told that it would take a year or more to get their child teted for EC services. My aha moment was when an EC teacher asked me what was he supposed to do with a child that did not have a specifice learning disorder; such as reading or math. He had no idea of the sensory problems, fine motor delays, and social problems that this child had to deal with on a daily basis. This grandparent had no knowledge of what her grandson needed in his IEP due to his diagnosis of Asperger's. He was entering the 8th grade and had just learned to tie his shoe the summer before; but the school system did not know what to put in his IEP.
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I have an excellent relatonship with the local universiity; the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I usually have an intern every semester. I also have a good working relationship with the local Mentaal Health Entity. NC divested its mental health servicees to private proividers and our county is still undergoing changes on a state and local level. I also have an attoreny that is going to be on retainer for our legal needs or questios; or any other matters that may present.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
I would like to hire an educational coordinator and volunteer coordinator as part time positions. I would like to be able to pay volunteers for any mileage incured in relatiion to work as to our county being so rural. The play therapist that I have identified will work for a reduced rate and I would provide training and education to the community, the School System, and any other entity that wants education and training. I would also like to proviide group sessions or other interventions during the summer via a summer program to keep the IEP going and ensure that progress can continue.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
This ia a new company and I feel as other buisnesses and the local town government and county govenment see the change we are making to the citizens of Robeson County our coloboration and support will grow. The need for play therapy toys and senory toys and equipment is a huge need for the children on the Autism spectrum. SOme toys make a differnce in regards to them attending school or not.
Created on 02/5/2012 by SV Amte
Let them lose their limbs, not dignity...Empowering Mutilated Leprosy Afflicted Persons to Contribute back to healthy society through Dignity Building Approach
Organization: Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora
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Organization Name
Maharogi Sewa Samiti, Warora
Country where this project is creating social impact
Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Damien Dutton Award, USA–Highest International Award in the field of Leprosy- 1983
Ramon Magsaysay Award For Public Service- Philippines -1985
United Nations' Human Rights Award For Outstanding Achievements in the field of Human Rights- 1988
International Giraffe Award, USA- 1989
The Templeton Prize, UK- 1991
International Gandhi Peace Prize, India -1999
Ramon Magsaysay Award For Community Leadership, Philippines -2006
Mahindra Samriddhi Krishi Sahyog Samman- 2011
Paryavaran Vikasratna Puraskar-2011
Nirmal Gram Puraskar, Government of India-2007
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Dr.M.S. Swaminathan- Dr. Swaminathan is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India", for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India.He currently serves as a Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha and is also member of the National Advisory Council.
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
Chairman, M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Third Cross Street, Taramani Institutional Area
Chennai - 600 113 (India)
Tel: +91 44 2254 2790 / 2254 1229; Fax: +91 44 2254 1319
Email: swami@mssrf.res.in / msswami@vsnl.net
Anshu K. Gupta , an Ashoka Fellow from Delhi, is facilitating an economic bridge between urban, wealthy India and impoverished, rural India by simply sharing the surplus of wealth. Anshu is establishing a culture of sustained donations in India by creating a mechanism for second-hand clothes and goods to pass from the wealthy to the poor.
Address- J-93, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi-76 Tel.- 011-26972351, 41401216, Email: anshu@goonj.org, Mobile: 09868146978
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How long have you been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
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Access, Equity.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Leprosy still strikes fear as a mutilating, disfiguring, contagious and incurable disease. Often cited as a deterrent to elimination of the disease, stigma is a critical feature of the leprosy landscape leading to ostracism from society. Leprosy afflicted people are half as likely to get even unskilled jobs, go to school, get qualifications and get married. Stigma rests on mythological stories, aesthetic features such as the enigmatic physical disfigurement, and also the distinctive ulcers consequent of untreated leprosy. In India legislature also helps ground the stigma by allowing it to be a reason to file divorce. Still leprosy afflicted people are thrown out and rarely burnt in Central India. We want leprosy to be seen as social disability & find alternative options of rehabilitation.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Maharogi Sewa Samiti works for restoration of rights and dignity of mutilated leprosy patients and disabled by enhancing their livelihood capabilities through self-discovery, unleashing their leadership potential and creating platforms through which they can contribute back to the development of society. MSS has also tried to blend various disabilities together to generate a unique place that helps nullify the stigma associated with disabilities. Through a purposive course of strategic actions we strive to uproot the mental depression, derived from the sense of being unwanted, which tends to inhibit psychological recovery. We have a firm belief that traditional charity-based approach is deterrent to development of a broken human spirit. Giving them a 'Chance' to work in a stigma-free environment, love, compassion, encouragement to build social businesses that empower people afflicted with other disabilities is the key to the ultimate victory over lost sense of self.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
We develop personal management and leadership capacities of leprosy patients through a holistic psycho-socio-economic rehabilitation program consisting of
1. Medical Treatment of leprosy
2. Post Leprosy Treatment consisting of exercises of building Hope and Confidence through skill building and encouraging them to exploit right to sexuality, companionship and parenthood
3. Restoration of Dignity by encouraging them to set up businesses for themselves and empower people with other disabilities. MSS advocates a location-specific and decentralized development model that involves the disabled people at every stage of conception, planning and execution.
Besides sustaining perhaps the largest community of leprosy patients and disabled in India (2100+), today annually MSS delivers healthcare to over 75,000 disadvantaged people ; runs vocational training centres for 200 disabled and unemployed rural youth; runs formal and special schools and colleges for 2000 + rural youth hearing and visually impaired; manages livelihood promotion activities through treatment, skill building and market linkage initiatives for disabled and tribals; Promotes Sustainable Agriculture through direct farm action programs, R&D and policy advocacy and extension activities; Promotes environmentally sustainable and replicable technologies; Conducts national level mega youth camps for promoting social sensitivity and national integration.
In 2009-10, MSS produced goods worth INR 19 Million. Every year, over 100,000 needy people get benefit of these services. MSS never says no to none.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Till now, ‘cure’ for leprosy, whether cure is a state of bacteriological absence from patients’ body or integration of afflicted as a respectable member of society has not been defined. Policy makers focusing on programs advocating community based rehabilitation excluding component of psycho-socio-economic resurrection pose a great challenge. Going beyond the concept of leprosarium, besides treatment, MSS strived to create an enabling environment where there is creative expression of their ability; where there is a constructive synthesis of man and nature and of the able bodied and the feeble bodied. Annually, over 100,000 members of civil society from India and abroad visit to our project sites to see the beauty in these massive ruins of Leprosy maimed human beings.
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The genesis lies in a fear factor. Lawyer, Poet, film critic, Muralidhar alias Baba Amte was born into a rich landowning family who grew up as Gandhi’s “Fearless Seeker.” In 1948, in torrential rain in Warora, he stumbled across something in a gutter. Which was a leprosy patient, lying as an irregular piece of human flesh, pierced and punctured at various places of the body by maggots, smelling repulsively. He feared the plight of this ‘human’ being and ran home. However he could not sit in peace for any time after that for having feared a fellow human being. He realized what perpetuated this was not just the absence of medical cure but a series of factors that denied of every chance to participate in all spheres of life. Thus was born Maharogi Sewa Samiti for treating leprosy patients and for the whole society afflicted by ‘mental leprosy’ and although initially it was a place epitomizing human anguish, drudgery and pity, he chose to call it Anandwan-the ‘forest of bliss’.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
We work for the rights of Leprosy patients and insist that people should not be deprived of their rights or value as human beings because they had a disease. The goal is to promote the well being of leprosy patients and people with disabilites by reducing poverty, inequality and marginality through providing service to the community through the establishment of a sustainable industry by the youth for the people of the local regional community.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Believing in the concept of ‘distributive justice’ at its core and ‘environmental fortitude’ in every sphere, MSS today proudly stands as a pioneering spearhead of silent social revolution having a far-reaching impact.The leprosy survivors and social rejects in MSS are now socially independent and live off the land, have set world standards for rehabilitation and coordinated some of India's most daring and prominent ecological and social programs. Till 2011, our organization had helped 900,000 leprosy patients and provided treatment & care to 2.3 million marginalized people through constructive programs. Anandwan today shelters over 2100 differently-abled people(leprosy patients, hearing and speech impaired, visually challenged, orthopedically challenged, orphans, senior citizens and socioeconomically backward people) and not only provides with basic necessities, but also encourages education and vocational training to help them regain their self-esteem and lead a dignified life.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
MSS plans to reach out to few more thousand leprosy patients through its livelhood building programs. MSS is set to eradicate discriminatory policies against leprosy patients by policy advocacy. Anandwan dairy which currently produces 750 liters of milk every day, is first of its kind in the world,set up and managed by leprosy patients, appears to the most ambitious project in district.Until few years back the milk from this dairy run by leprosy patients was thrown away in gutter due to stigma. Today we have problem of containing crowds. Anandwan is set to become the health capital of region by reaching upto 100,000 people every year through its integrated health services.MSS will set up a skill building centre for 500 unemployed youth as an alternative to growing violence in region.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Political apathy about the disease, Disguised statistics about incidence and prevalence of disease, fragmented policies by government, non inclusion of leprosy patients with disability in the group of people with disabilites are major barriers. However there can be overcome by setting up a strong evidence based advocacy and research centre that will sustainably enunciate the need for equality, access and inclusion of leprosy afflcited people in mainstream.
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Efforts to enhance grants in aid given by government for treatment and rehabilitation of leprosy patients to institutions
Task 1
Submitting evidence based analytical proposals to government showing inadequacies in grant in aid
Task 2
Creating collaborations & pressure groups with likeminded NGOs, media persons & civil society to raise awareness about the issue
Task 3
Strategic link ups with willing bureaucrats to take up the issue on priority basis
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Task 1
Identifying cases willing to submit petition in court against discriminatory laws against leprosy
Task 2
Forming a national consortium of leprosy workers to create pressure groups to present their views in fron of court
Task 3
Appealing the legislature to amend the discriminatory laws and provide rights to leprosy patients in every sphere of life
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We are very well connected with all leprosy organisations, government of India and Christian charieties. We have a strong place in the minds of civil society. Through our efforts few thousand individuals have set up their own institutions to help others in different parts of India.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Yes we have long been working with people with other disabilities too for their psycho-socio-economic empowerment. We do not discriminate between leprosy afflcited and other disabled or marginalised such as visually and hearing imapired, physically challenged, orphas and social rejects. We serve in tribal areas to run hospitals and agriculture extension programs, develop community leadership, help distressed farmers on the brink of disaster. We build and execture environmental awareness campaigns, fight against discriminaion and injustice and spread awareness in youth about social issues.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
MSS advocates a location-specific and decentralized development model, which grows organically from the soil and involves its people at every stage of conception, planning and execution. We feel people should not be bound by working hours, rules and regulations but by love, compassion for others and the common good. Innate belief in human being's inner potential and a platform to unleash the same has worked wonders and it will in future.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
We need networks, ideas from people and their time to help us find out slutions to problems that are yet unanswered. We wish to venture out in the field of HIV / AIDS but not in terms of mere spreading awareess but building enterprises of their own to reduce stigma to their disease.
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CSF is a non-profit working to eliminate avoidable causes of childhood disability & to establish a right-based enabling environment for them
Organization: Child Sight Foundation (CSF)
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
“Distinguished Service Award” by Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology for leadership role in the development of research, programmes and policies for prevention of blindness and ensure the rights of the blind children in Bangladesh.
Honored with another award “gold medal” for great contribution in the field of research of childhood eye diseases on behalf of the Ophthalmological Society of Bangladesh (OSB).
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1. Prof. A.H. Syedur Rahman
Biography and Address of correspondence: He is the President of Child Sight Foundation. He is also the Former President, Bangladesh Medical Association and currently working as a Chief Consultant Ophthalmologist, BIRDEM Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Email: srahman@bangla.net
Phone Number: +8801711564611
2. Hasnain Sabih Nayak
Biography and Address of correspondence: He is the International Relations & Culture Editor of “Toitomboor”, meaning “full to the brim” in Bangla, has been the leading children and juvenile monthly magazine in Bangladesh since 1992. He is also one of the founders at Blooming Buds Child Development Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Email: hasnain@mtlbd.net
hasnain@iub.edu.bd
Phone Number: +8801711786454
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How long have you been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
In 2001, we conducted the first national study on childhood blindness in Bangladesh using Key Informant Method (Key Informant Method also called KIM is a novel method for identifying children with disability in the community, by training local volunteers known as key informants like school teacher, local leaders, religious man in the community). We found that 40,000 children were blind in Bangladesh and out of them, about 2/3rd cases could be prevented or treated. At that time, there was a widespread denial among policy makers and service providers even about the mere existence of blind children. No data were available even on essential facts like how many children are blind in Bangladesh.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
To lessen the burden of disability in children, it must be timely identified, properly diagnosed and intervened. We trained community volunteers to act as key informants (KIs). KIs are people who live and/or work in their local community (health workers, man of faith, parents etc.). KIs are selected and trained to identify children in their communities. With support of Community Mobilisers (CM), they compile a list of identified children with disability to be examined by physicians. The children with their parents are provided appropriate counselling and refer them to hospital for further management or provided community based rehabilitation. This method has been tested against the door-to-door survey and was proven nationally and internationally as extremely effective, less expensive and more sensitive. Already, this method was used in several countries in the world including Malawi, Iran, India.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
in 2001, we planned to conduct a national study on epidemiology of childhood blindness. Doing a national survey on large number of child population in Bangladesh needs much time and there is huge cost involvement. But we were trying to find a solution that can be applied easily, in cost-effective manner and most importantly, a sustainable solution. We then came up with the key informant method that involves sustainable approach through community involvement. We mobilize the community people to identify children with disability and got dramatic result. With the key informant method, we have been able to identified 17, 500 children with visual impairment from 285 sub districts in 39 districts in Bangladesh. Among them, 6, 500 children have had their vision restored by cataract surgery, 300 children with visual impairment have received inclusive education support in our 2 projects, 350 children with visual impairment receive home based rehabilitation. With our recent childhood disability project, we have trained 1,200 people to act as Key Informants to identify children with disability within our project area. So far, 4,331 children with various form of disabilities including cleft palate and cleft lip, visual impairment, hearing loss, epilepsy, hydrocephalous, club foot, cerebral palsy, other types of physical disabilities are identified so far by key informant method under the project. Out of 4,331 chidren, 3,100 children have received medical and surgical treatment, physiotherapy and other supportive materials so far. The remaining will receive service by and by.
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Initially, our work was focused on childhood blindness and visual impairment. I was the lead researcher of the only National survey on childhood blindness in Bangladesh that was conducted in 2001. Before started the study, I knew that identification of those children will be challenging and costly. I have discussed with my team members about a feasible, easier and most importantly sustainable method to identify children. Then we came up with empowering local people and mobilise them to identify and creating awareness. We identified key people of the society who have a tremendous role in social and community mobilisation. A few months after we trained these key people. With this key informant, we were able to identify 17, 500 children with visual impairment from 285 sub districts in 39 districts in Bangladesh. CSF has changed 6,500 children life through sight restoring cataract surgery. After that we focused our work on childhood disability. Now we have trained 1,200 Key Informants
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The primary goal of the initiative is to identify children affected by disabling disease as early as possible to ensure that they receive appropriate and timely access to referral, services, examination, treatment and rehabilitation. This access is crucial for children to develop, receive education, and participate in broader social life.
We want to replicate this method throughout the country and in middle and low income countries in the world. The method will be an effective, low-cost solution for low and middle income countries like Bangladesh, where the remoteness of rural communities and poor access to health, education, and rehabilitation services in many areas render most other research methods less effective.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
More than 20,000 KIs have been trained who are doing community mobilisation. CSF has identified 17 500 children with VI from 285 sub districts in 39 districts in Bangladesh. Among them, 6 500 children have had their vision restored by cataract surgery, 300 children with visual impairment have received inclusive education support and 350 children with visual impairment receive home based rehabilitation.
Under the project titled “Childhood Disability Study in Bangladesh”, 4,331 children with various form of disabilities including cleft palate and cleft lip, visual impairment, hearing loss, epilepsy, hydrocephalous, club foot, cerebral palsy, other types of physical disabilities are identified.
Of 4331 chidren, 3,100 children have received medical and surgical treatment, physiotherapy and other support. 1200 people in the project area have been trained as KIs to identify children with disabilities. 121 parents of children w/ cerebral palsy received training on home-based physiotherapy
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
In coming five years, more key informants will be trained and more children will be identified and managed accordingly. In coming years, more geographical area will be added for project work. We will cover at least 5 more new districts in coming 5 years, each in one year. Key Informant Method will be dispersed more area and mobilize more community members for action on childhood disability.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Certain barriers like inadequate services in comparison to the number of children identified, lack of motivation of key informants etc.
Just identifying children without increasing services like medical, rehabilitative, social development etc. increases frustration and we have plan to work in parallel. We have a comprehensive project which will provide these services along with identification. But it is very costly so we will use network and coordinate with other organisations.
Like any system, KI method is very effective if the key elements are motivated well and inspired to do the job by themselves. As it is a voluntary work, sometimes they might lose motivation. We will have a motivation team who’ll inspire them by sharing success story and involve them in various project activities
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Monitoring KI activity will be done by community mobiliser who will be a group of local people actively involved with us.
Task 1
Arrange training of specific number of Key Informants in very specific area.
Task 2
Identify a certain number of children with various forms of disabilities in that area.
Task 3
Provide them required services.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
identify certain amount of children with special focus on hard to reach area and provide them required services
Task 1
Train almost double number of KI than we did in 6 months.
Task 2
Identify more children with special focus on hard to reach area
Task 3
Provide services and run some awareness activity in the community on rights and facts on disability.
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We have collaborated with numerous local and international partners. Child Sight Foundation receives technical support from-International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Locally we have Child Disability Network (CDN) that brings together a variety of organisations into a cooperative network; all share concern for childhood disability and intends to alleviate the situation. Members met in the CDN Conference on 18 August 2005 and agreed to work together.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Yes. We are targeting older group as well due to the increasing disability with the increase of population aging.
We are targeting urban slum as well because they are vulnerable and often overlooked.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
All the staffs of our organisation are well motivated and they promote volunteerism. Our working environment is quiet good and constantly increasing its capacity to provide quality services.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
1. Investment to build or support infrastructure to provide services
2. Develop human Resources to empower community and provide services
3. Social marketing and media support to spread awareness & success stories
4. Research and information to know real scenario, effectiveness of intervention
5. Collaboration between organizations to avoid duplication of efforts
Kartunet (Karya Tunanetra) is an online platform established by and a group of visually impaired youth, focusing on capacity building for the disabled and public campaign on inclusive society. Kartunet runs regular workshop to develop skills, economic independence, and technology access of the disabled. On campaign, Kartunet regularly publishes various achievements made by disabled group, and conducts online campaign on disability issues.
Created on 01/26/2012 by maysacortinas
Rede de reabilitação para atendimento de alta complexidade com o objetivo de criar oportunidades para transformar a vida da pessoa com deficiência e seu entorno
Organization: Rede de Reabilitação Lucy Montoro
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Government
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
O idealizador do projeto foi homenageado em 2010 como Personalidade da Saúde pela Hospitalar.
No dia 7 de fevereiro, receberá o prêmio “ICCC Caring Citizen of the World” pela UN HABITAT, entidade ligada à ONU.
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1 - Hermano Igo Krebs Ph.D.
Pesquisador e professor do
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica
Tel : (617)253-8112
Fax : (617)258-7018
E-mail: hikrebs@mit.edu
2- Rodrigo Hübner Mendes
Fundador do Instituto Rodrigo Mendes, que desenvolve programas educativos que visam contribuir com a transformação do sistema de ensino público brasileiro em um modelo inclusivo, capaz de acolher a diversidade humana em sua plenitude. Rodrigo é co-autor do livro “Artes Visuais na Educação Inclusiva” e assina colunas em diversos veículos de comunicação. É membro do Young Global Leaders (World Economic Forum) e empreendedor social Ashoka. Atualmente integra o conselho de várias organizações brasileiras.
É graduado em Administração de Empresas e mestre em Gestão da Diversidade Humana pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Tel: 11 3726-4468/ 8418
E-mail: rodrigo@institutorodrigomendes.org.br
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How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Equity.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Propiciar o acesso de pessoas com deficiência a reabilitação integral, inclusive profissional, reduzindo limitações e incluindo-as de forma ativa na sociedade, por meio de atendimento no sistema público de saúde.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Implantação de uma rede de reabilitação para atendimento de alta complexidade, criada pelo decreto nº 52.973 de 12 de maio de 2008 e regulamentada pelo decreto nº 55.739 de 27 de abril de 2010, integrada a rede pública de saúde. São 19 unidades fixas distribuídas em diferentes pólos regionais do estado de São Paulo e uma unidade móvel com capacidade de atender as regiões mais desassistidas do estado além de atuar de forma complementar com as unidades instaladas, prestando assistência integral às pessoas com deficiência. O objetivo é criar oportunidades para transformar a vida da pessoa com deficiência e seu entorno.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
O programa integral de reabilitação possibilita a inclusão social, através do desenvolvimento de habilidades, adaptações funcionais, orientações e capacitação ocupacional e/ou profissional, visando garantir qualidade de vida.
O programa apresenta uma visão holística, possibilitando uma resignificação da própria pessoa em seu contexto familiar, com elaboração das perdas vivenciadas e potencialização dos recursos existentes, buscando autonomia e inclusão social.
Ao lado dos cuidados clínicos e funcionais, as tecnologias Assistivas são disponibilizadas de forma a garantir o mais alto padrão de funcionalidade. A família é estimulada a garantir a autonomia do paciente e a comunidade é envolvida nas estratégias de educação e trabalho.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Rede SARAH e AACD são entidades com objetivos similares. O diferencial da Rede Lucy é integrar a rede pública de saúde, promover o acesso aos programas de saúde em geral nas diversas localidades do estado de SP, propiciar equidade, respeitar as necessidades de cada um e realizar um trabalho de conscientização social nas comunidades. A visão apenas voltada para as questões clínicas é o comum nos concorrentes. Ao tratarem de forma reducionista a inclusão da pessoa com deficiência, podem criar o falso dilema traduzido pela Institucionalização x Inclusão Social. A Rede não se atem apenas aos aspectos médicos ou clínicos do paciente, mas respeita a integralidade visando o completo bem-estar. A pesquisa de satisfação da Secretaria da Saúde comprova o alto índice de satisfação dos pacientes.
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O trabalho realizado desde a década de 80 pela Drª Linamara Rizzo Battistella, como médica fisiatra, na área de medicina física e reabilitação do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, junto às pessoas com deficiência e a vivência com as dificuldades e limitações enfrentadas por esse segmento possibilitou uma visão empreendedora e pioneira da necessidade de descentralizar a assistência a partir de políticas públicas e ações que contemplassem o atendimento dentro do mesmo padrão de excelência em todas as regiões do estado. Sua articulação junto aos órgãos públicos federal e estadual possibilitou a formação de recursos humanos, oficialização de normas e políticas para o segmento e a implantação desta Rede.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Implantar, Padronizar e Sistematizar uma rede hierarquizada e descentralizada, com elevado padrão de qualidade, dentro dos parâmetros do SUS, de atendimento em medicina de reabilitação com fornecimento de ajudas técnicas, ou seja, órteses, próteses e meios auxiliares da locomoção e comunicação no Estado de São Paulo com vistas à inclusão da Pessoa com Deficiência.
Com objetivo de ampliar o número de vagas para atendimento reduzindo o tempo de espera e conseqüentemente obtendo melhores resultados para o paciente, além de reduzir as distâncias percorridas pelos usuários e facilitando a participação da família e da comunidade para que a transformação se concretize.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Redução no tempo de espera por atendimento nos programas de reabilitação e inclusão por órteses, próteses e meios auxiliares da locomoção de uma média de 5 a 7 anos nas regiões onde já estamos atuando para um tempo médio de 6 meses. Para alcançar esta meta foi necessário um esforço conjunto entre Rede, SES, SDPcD e municípios.
O número de pessoas atendidas cresceu 300% e para tanto contratou cerca de 900 profissionais da área da saúde.
Além disto, deu maior visibilidade às questões que envolvem a pessoa com deficiência e contribuiu para o desenvolvimento econômico e social dos municípios onde se instalou.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Ter implantado as 19 unidades da Rede, ultrapassado a marca dos 100 mil atendimentos mês. Com isto efetivar a descentralização do atendimento em reabilitação, promovendo um melhor entendimento da sociedade sobre os direitos das pessoas com deficiência, criando um círculo virtuoso que envolva a escola na perspectiva de inclusão, o mercado de trabalho na condição de aumentar a força de trabalho com as pessoas com deficiência. Geração, no mínimo, de mais de 900 empregos e promovendo a capacitação destes profissionais, com inclusão social e profissional mais rápida e efetiva.
Ao final deste período, consolidaremos uma análise comparativa da performance da rede e seu respectivo impacto na inclusão escolar e na empregabilidade da pessoa com deficiência.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
1. Falta de recursos humanos habilitados na área da saúde;
2. Falência no propósito de conscientização da escola e do mercado de trabalho;
Para diminuir os riscos, a Rede Lucy atua permanentemente no fomento para formação destes profissionais e estabelecendo convênios com instituições de ensino, como a Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Além de participar/apoiar diversos programas de conscientização da comunidade em geral promovida pela Secretaria dos Direitos da Pessoa com Deficiência do Estado de São Paulo.
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Implantar mais duas unidades no mínimo gerando mais 1500 atendimentos mês.
Task 1
Capacitar os profissionais da Rede para o uso de protocolos clínicos e de acompanhamento no processo de orientação profissional
Task 2
Base de dados unificada para análise permanente e monitoramento do programas desenvolvidos.
Task 3
Análise do perfil de empregabilidade do município e do programa de inclusão escolar.
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Ultrapassar a marca dos 50 mil atendimentos mês, consolidando sua inserção na rede pública de saúde.
Task 1
Melhorar nossa interface com a rede de saúde como objetivo de receber o paciente no menor tempo possível.
Task 2
Melhorar a cadeia de fornecimento e órteses, próteses e meios auxiliares de locomoção e comunicação, garantindo equipamentos de
Task 3
Implantar uma rede de cuidados complementares.
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A Rede mantém parcerias com:
- Universidades, para garantir capacitação e aprimoramento profissional permanente, disseminação de conhecimento especializado, além de pesquisas que resultem em novas técnicas de reabilitação.
- FIPE, que realiza o monitoramento do emprego, acompanha as questões do custo das diversas unidades e estuda o custo de vida da pessoa com deficiência nas diversas fases da vida.
- MIT, que desenvolve os equipamentos de robótica utilizados.
- FORTEC, Fórum Nacional de Gestores de Inovação e Transferência de Tecnologia, para troca de conhecimento.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
A Rede recebe constantes solicitações de outros estados e países para consultoria, o que motivou o convite para integrar o Comitê Gestor do Programa Viver Sem Limites do Governo Federal.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
A Rede conta com completa infra-estrutura de atendimento, com espaços que respeitam a padronização arquitetônica desenvolvida especialmente para a Rede. O sistema de informação é completamente integrado, propiciando uma base única de dados. Todos os profissionais participam do mesmo programa de capacitação e recebem supervisão contínua dos especialistas da área.
A Rede gera e cumpre manuais próprios de procedimentos e protocolos que garantem a padronização do atendimento em todas as unidades.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Permanente disseminação dos benefícios e oportunidades trazidos pelo respeito à diversidade humana.
Created on 01/24/2012 by WTMW
Step into the world of disabilities through a Welcome to My World workshop. By experiencing disabilities, you'll learn that a superhero may be just next door.
Organization: Schott Communities
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United States, FL, Cooper City, Broward County
Is your organization a
Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization
Your role in Education
Parent, Other.
The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with
Public (tuition-free)
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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How long has your solution been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Our program targets bullying of individuals with disabilities. According to the US Census Bureau, 20% of Americans have a disabiity. That's 2 out of every 10 people you meet! Bullying often originates out of the fear and insecurity of dealing with someone who is different. Our program alleviates that fear and insecurity by giving students the chance to experience having a disability - several disabilities, in fact! - and in doing so, learn how to comfortably interact with disabled individuals.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Welcome to My World is a unique kind of senstivity building workshop that is fun and interactive. It can be incorporated into an existing class curriculum, or presented as a stand-alone experience such as an in-house field trip. It is completely portable, so it can be presented in any appropriate space (cafeteria, large classroom, media center), and for local schools, it can be implemented at Schott Center as a field trip. The workshop engages while it teaches by not only telling students what it is like to have a disability, but letting them experience it for themselves. Students work through eleven different stations or learning centers, each of which simulates a different diability. For example, to simulate a learning disability, at one station students have to complete a simple set of written instructions, but all the instructions are written backwards. Or to simulate blindness, they have to put on a blindfold and try to get a drink from a water fountain.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Schott Communities has presented the Welcome to My World workshops for over 20 years to countless numbers of youth and adults. The Memorial Healthcare System contracted with us for six continuous years to train over 6000 of their employees. While it is a valuable tool for employers to sensitizing their employees to the unique needs of individuals with disabilities, we have been most moved by the reactions of middle school and high school students who have participated in the workshop. One high school student who is a soccer player said, "Being blind is scary. I tried to imagine where the furniture was, but then I thought blind people have to try to imagine things they have never seen and be guided by what other people tell them." After trying an activity in which he had to sit in a wheelchair and navigate unaided in the restroom to wash his hands, one student stated, "I will look at people with disabilities differently and stop and ask if they would like some help." The workshop helps students understand what it is like to lack fine motor skills by having to tie a shoe with their fingers all taped together. Students struggle with upper limb impairment when they must wrap a present with one arm fully immobilized and the other restricted by a sling. And they feel the embarrassment of a speech impediment when they answer personal questions with marshmallows stuffed in their mouths. After gaining insight into the obstacles that individuals with disabilities overcome each day, one student declared that "society could learn a lot by taking these people as an example".
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Schott Communities holds a copyright for the presentation of the Welcome to My World workshop in South Florida, so this particular workshop is unique in our area. Nonetheless, the School Board of Broward County has designated the first two weeks in October as Disability History and Awareness Weeks. They have information available to students, teachers, parents and administrators regarding Disability History and Awareness; however, it is not yet mandatory to teach on the subject in the school system. We view the local school system as a collaborator in our efforts to advocate for individuals with disabilities by reducing bullying through increasing awareness and sensitivity. Our program has received an overwhelmingly positive response whenever presented. Only funding limits our growth.
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Step into the world of disabilities through a Welcome to My World workshop. You'll learn that a superhero may be in the class next door.
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Don't listen to your teacher! Find out for yourself. Challenge yourself with 11 different disabilities. Are you up to the challenge?
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What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Over the years, we have presented the Welcome to My World program to thousands of adults and children. This program has been presented to over 6000 employees of the local hospital system, reducing their incidence of lawsuits. It has also been requested year after year by various Sunday Schools and private schools as an in-house field trip. The best indicator of our success in helping people to change their views about individuals with disabilities are the comments from participants in the program:
Lizabeth, a middle school student, says, "I am so thankful for this activity. I realized that disabled people are not weird. You see, I grew up knowing that God created everyone equal, but every time I saw someone who was in a wheel chair or who was a slow learner, I would think they were weird. Slowly, I did start to realize that we are all the same. We may not all look the same or act the same, but we all feel the same way. You opened my eyes to not judge people."
What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?
The Broward County Public School system is the sixth largest public school system in the country, serving over 120,000 students in Middle School and High School alone. With proper funding and School Board approval, we hope to make this program a required part of the curriculum for all public school students, either in the last year of Middle School (eighth grade) or the first year of High School (ninth grade). That will mean reaching between 15,000 and 20,000 students each year.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The main barrier will be getting the program approved by the School Board as a required part of the curriculum. This will require research to determine the procedure to follow, then persistence to accomplish the task.
As a precursor to this process, we have presented the program at several private schools which have the means to pay for it. And with the support of local PTA's, we are currently presenting the program at a few public schools, in order to get educators excited about it, which will eventually help us to achieve the required School Board approval.
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Make Welcome to My World an independently marketable program & increase workshops given by at least 40% (25 to 35).
Task 3
Expand the network of schools where we are currently presenting the program.
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Get Welcome to My World approved by the local School Board as a recommended activity for all eighth or ninth grade students.
Task 1
Research School Board and program requirements and procedures
Task 2
Begin the steps to meet School Board Requirements
Task 3
Lobby with School Board memebers for support.
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Over 20 years ago, our agency's founders purchased the copyright to the Welcome to My World program for presentation in South Florida. It simply made sense that our service to individuals with disabilities should include this kind of advocacy - educating others about sensitivity towards those with disabilities. But it wasn't until recently that the impact of the program on children became an emphasis. In the evolution of our society from ignorant neglect (and sometimes malicious mistreatment) of individuals with disabilities to appropriate respect and assistance for them, the issues had to be addressed first at higher levels. So it wasn't until relatively recently that the obvious truth came through, that elimination of prejudices should begin at the youngest age possible. It is now very clear that the next move in our efforts of advocacy must be to systematically teach children that individuals with disabilities deserve the same respect and consideration as everyone else.
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Schott Communities has partnered with local hospitals, law enforcement agencies, businesses and schools to present this program in advocacy of individuals with disabilities. We are in the process of approaching the local county School Board regarding the inclusions of this program in the current middle school or high school curriculum.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]
This program is currently under the oversight of our Program Director and our Executive Director. However, given proper funding, we would hire a Program Coordinator specifically charged with the growth and success of the program. As with all our programs, we use several volunteers to assist in the success ful implementation of the program. This would continue, even with the hiring of a Program Coordinator.
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Organization: Rotary Club of Kandy
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Operating for less than a year
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Access, Quality.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Population of srilanka: 19.3 million
Average Yearly Wage Rate: $840
Health Budget as % of Total Budget: 3.7%
out of 19 million people living in srilanka almost 83000 people suffer from partial or full blindness majorly the cause being cataract.Cataract operations and after surgery medication is quite costly to people living in rural areas thus they stay blind for the rest of their lives helpless and unable to continue to enjoy any standard of life.their is a problem of accessibility too since only few hospitals in srilanka offer cataract surgery.This is the problem that we want to address
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The Rotary Club of Kandy as a pilot project undertook the following eye care camps and the results were simply amazing and demonstrated the urgent need to take this project onto a national platform.
We operate in remote areas where poor persons do not have access to be treated at the government hospitals. Furthermore, for cataract surgery the government hospitals have long waiting lists
There are so many poor persons living in rural areas all over the country which could benefit by this programme. At a comprehensive camp (type 1) about 200 - 300 persons would be screened. Most of them will receive spectacles and 10% of them will be provided with cataract surgery. The numbers vary depending on the location. Very dry and salty areas have a higher ratio of persons needing cataract surgery/spectacles while other locations may have a much lower percentage.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
out of the 83000 people that have been approximated to be the yearly number that are said to be suffering from partial or full blindness , only 60- 70 % have been recorded as patients who have been diagnosed and treated with surgery and given spectales.that leaves almost 25000 people an year in need of spectacles and treatment for blindness.4-5 eye camps are held in all the rural areas that can be reached and in total we could diagnose almost 2000 induviduals and cure them of blindness.thoguh this is only 1/10th of the entire patients that are said to be , its a start and we could always expand on this. The only difference we want to see is a smile on each and every one of the patients we treat free of charge in the thought they they have been once again blessed with the gift of sight !
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just an urge from the heart
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
to eradicate blindness and partial blindness and to help people to get access to eye care centers and to be able to do surgeries free of charge
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
the biggest impact has been the smile on the faces of the patients but in number almost 2000 people diagnosed and treated successfully every year free of charge ...
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
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people who have very little access to hospitals and people who cannot afford to pay for surgery and treatment and medication
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Created on 12/20/2011 by Karen Parnaby Harris
CHANGE ‘Tools for Inclusion’ Developed by people with learning disabilities to support marginalised people to access information that leads to greater equality.
Organization: CHANGE
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Charity of the year 1998
CHANGE was charity of the year for Comic Relief. A short film about our work was shown on BBC1 and two people with learning disabilities form CHANGE collected the award on television.
Young People’s Award for the Community 1999
Two people with learning disabilities form CHANGE, Richard West and Justine March were invited to Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Young People’s Award for the Community.
Breakthrough UK Awards 2010
CHANGE was nominated and awarded Highly Commended in 2 categories for employing people with learning disabilities on an equal living wage, as well as our work on creating accessible information.
Human Rights Award 2011
CHANGE won a Highly Commended Human Rights Award from International Service. These awards are to recognize the achievements of workers, volunteers, activists and organizations who are devoted to promoting Human Rights
Royal Society of Public Health with Christ Church University Special Commendation for Contribution to the Field of Arts and Health Inequalities 2011
This award was in recognition of CHANGE’s ground breaking work in creating accessible information around sex and relationships for people with learning disabilities.
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Lina Gyllensten - Research and Publications Officer Lumos
LUMOS is an organisation working to end the systematic institutionalisation of children across Europe. They are working to ensure that all children live in safe, caring environments, whether they are disabled, from an ethnic minority or from an impoverished background.
020725 36464
lina.gyllensten@lumos.org.uk
Tony Bonser - Board of Trustees for National Council for Palliative Care and
campaigner for Dying Matters Coalition
CHANGE has worked with this organisation around developing accessible information about cancer treatment and palliative care. It demonstrates how our methods of working can ensure that people who would normally be marginalised within the health care system, can be supported to be more informed and empowered to make life and death decisions for themselves.
01254 854323
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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Equity.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
People with learning Disabilities PWLD are marginalised and have their rights undermined in every aspect of their life, by the belief that they cannot understand enough to participate in a meaningful way.Paid job opportunities are rare. Evidence shows that PWLD have fewer health choices and are often neglected,resulting in death. The right to family life is undermined by the belief that PWLD cannot form meaningful relationships. Lack of sex education means that PWLD are more likely to be in abusive relationships. ParentsWLD have little access to good support so their children are removed because they are deemed unable to give good enough care. PWLD are most vulnerable to hate crime. Throughout their lives PWLD have restricted choices even when it comes to deciding how they want to die.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
CHANGE empowers(PWLD) to campaign for equal rights and play key roles in the development of a fair and more inclusive society.
With the right kind of accessible info and support PWLD can increase their knowledge of issues that affect their lives and make important decisions for themselves, actively making a valuable contribution to society, whether it be within the family, the wider community, or at policy level.
CHANGE employs PWLD to develop training and resources for inclusion that support people who find reading hard. StaffWLD work with professionals to develop easy read, illustrated info. The most effective accessible info is produced with the direct guidance of PWLD. By providing high quality accessible resources PWLD are a key part of the solution to break down barriers that prevent people achieving their equal rights. If society is to become genuinely inclusive PWLD must be empowered to be at the forefront of making changes.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
To develop effective accessible info CHANGE allows time for peer led focus groups to be facilitated with PWLD. This Emancipatory research is the key to developing useful resources to support PWLD to find out what they need to know & get guidance that they are able to put into action.
Our Cancer Resources were made in a 2 year research project. It was led by 2 co-workers 1 with learning disabilities & 1 without. We use co-working for all of our projects, co-workers are paid equally & work equal hours. Along with illustrators the Cancer Team worked with a PWLD, Oncology staff, Macmillan Nurses & carers to find out what PWLD experienced in the health care system. In this way our info answered the questions that PWLD themselves and their carers wanted to know.
People with Cancer have to make hard decisions, should I have surgery, treatment and if not how do I die? These are choices that PWLD are oftendenied and the 1 choice they are being given is not explained with little or no thought given to their spiritual or emotional journey towards death.
The books & Living Well But Dying Matters DVD have been well received. PWLD say that it is easier to take in info & make choices. MacMillan staff, say that using these resources supports professionals to modify their language & explain choices more effectively to patients.
By using this model we are able to support staffWLD to develop high levels of expertise which makes them excellent trainers providing additional support to organisations who wish to improve the service they deliver to PWLD.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
CHANGE is a small ULO (15 staff – most part time)in the Voluntary sector. Our focus is disability rights & we compete with similar, much larger organisations such as Mencap,Scope and RADAR. Recent Government changes to funding criteria mean that smaller organisations struggle to secure funding in our own right. In the last 3 years we have had to increase self-generated income. We have done this by working direct with commissioners putting us in competition with other suppliers like Photo Symbols & Inspired Services. Although our resources seem more expensive the way we work adds to the impact our they have. As well as providing PWLD with the most effective easy read info we provide a platform for PWLD to take charge of the issues that affect them and earn a living from working for CHANGE.
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Agh moments! ParentsWLD who are more likely to have their children removed; Winterbourne where PWLD in care were abused by staff;
Fiona Pilkington’s suicide after she took her disabled daughters life having suffered years of disability hate crime. Eastern Europe’s Forgotten Children with disabilities, abandoned in institutions. We believe the most effective change will be driven by PWLD themselves, because most of the inequalities they face are due to being excluded. We adhere to the ideal of ‘Nothing about us without us. Since being founded in 1993 we have ensured that PWLD are at the forefront of our work to deliver change. Our aim is to lead by example: providing exemplar accessible information for PWLD because information is power; delivering training to change professional attitudes and empower PWLD; providing meaningful jobs with influence for PWLD.
“As a ‘Power Changer’ I can help other PWLD to beat the bad guys” Shoheb – Living Our Lives in Safety Trainer
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
To extend the reach of our work in the UK and abroad. Linking with LUMOS to work in Eastern Europe provides the opportunity to deliver our model of working with strategic support bringing real change for many PWLD with user led services founded on the social model of disability. We hope that demonstrating our ability to deliver work on this scale will allow us to secure similar roles in the UK. We plan to use funding from the EHRC to roll out our Hate Crime Initiative across Yorkshire, embedding it within established services. We want to achieve better support for ParentsWLD by working in partnership to develop specialist parenting training and advocacy. We aim to improve sales of our resources and images at home and abroad to generate enough sustainable income to employ more staffWLD.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
CHANGE has made accessible information about looking after children available so that health professionals are better able to support parents WLD to have a greater chance of providing good enough care for their children. Our work has influenced policy development around the support of parentsWLD through the ‘Good Practice Guidance – Supporting ParentsWLD. Our Co-working model of employment is being implemented by other organisations. PWLD suffering from cancer now have access to information they can understand. More PWLD are now empowered to recognise when they are being abused and how to stop it.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Work with LUMOS to support the deinstitutionalisation of young people in Eastern Europe. We will instigate good practice in supporting PWLD based on empowerment and the social model of disability to ensure the successful transition of children and young people from institutions into the community. Closer to home we will continue to work towards the provision of more accessible health services for PWLD and provision of more good quality easy read health info. We plan to improve support that is available to parentsWLD by developing specialised parenting training. We will extend our Hate Crime work, piloting our training programme in schools across Yorkshire and working with established services to create accessible reporting centres so that PWLD are aware of hate crime and how to stop it.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
CHANGE could be seen to lack capacity to deliver services more widely. So we aim to align ourselves with specialist mainstream NGO’s with larger infrastructures. We see ourselves as advisors who can work with large organisations to support them to develop appropriate training & resources to ensure that they meet their duty under the Disability Act 2010. Competitors could affect the sale of our products and services, but we believe that the quality of our work and the fact that our profits go towards real jobs for PWLD will give us an edge. We will build on our reputation as a genuine ULO and the fact that few other easy read products match the quality of ours. We plan to improve our website and communications systems to ensure that more people are aware of our work.
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Known as key players in the deinstitutionalisation of PWLD in Eastern Europe & improved reporting of UK hate crime.
Task 1
Visited & delivered training in the 4 Eastern European countries, action plan for setting up Youth Councils, children’s book co
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Partnership and funding secured for development of parenting training for ParentsWLD. New edition easy read parenting books prod
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Power Changers training programme being delivered in schools, potential hate crime reporting centres identified in West Yorkshir
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Agreement to extend work in EU. Begin to impact on national policies around the provision of services for ParentsWLD and victim
Task 1
Established peer to peer activities taking place led by people trained by CHANGE in EU target areas. Translated accessible resou
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Specialist Advocacy for ParentsWLD & validated accessible Parenting course under development with commitment to roll both out Na
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Evidence of impact on National policies re Safeguarding & support to report disability hate crime incidents. Plans for national
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We are working more in partnership with mainstream service deliverers to support them to develop resources & awareness of how to give good support to PWLD. This as a viable way of ensuring that our methods of working become more widely available & organisations we link to can demonstrate that they are meeting diversity requirements.
Partnerships allow for an exchange of expertise, an example being our work with NHS Scotland who advise CHANGE on current standards and medical practice and in return we lend our expertise in producing information in the most accessible way for ParentsWLD.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Our resources are useful not only to PWLD but anyone who finds reading hard so we reflect this in our search for new markets. We plan to develop our links in Europe translating our easy read health & parenting publications into other languages. Through our work with LUMOS we hope to develop better links with WHO and look at the possibility of developing our resources for use elsewhere in the world. We are currently seeking UNICEF approval for our parenting books and hope to build stronger links around the way CHANGE uses images to disseminate health information for people who cannot read.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
CHANGE is a user led organisation. ½ of our Board of Directors are disabled people, & the resources we develop are based on issues that PWLD tell us are important. We employ PWLD to facilitate peer to peer learning and emancipatory research ensureing the opinions of PWLD are reflected.
We use‘a co-working model of employment’ an innovation of CHANGE that empowers staff WLD to lead our work, this makes our resources among the most effective materials for disseminating info to anyone who finds reading hard. We are well placed to successfully guide & train others on how best to empower and support PWLD. We have well organised internal systems for finance and administration and have spent the last year working to improve our marketing and sales strategy to attain greater sustainability.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
CHANGE would benefit from support to raise our profile, particularly among commissioners and local, regional and government bodies. We would also benefit from the patronage of person/s who could support us to raise awareness of the work we do.
Created on 12/19/2011 by Instituto ABCD
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Instituto ABCD is a civil society non profit organization whose mission is to promote education for Brazilian children and youth with specific learning disabilities, as well as offer support to their teachers and parents.
Created on 12/11/2011 by brecken
HandReach fosters the full rehabilitation of children injured by trauma by integrating surgery, orthopedics, rehabilitation, nursing, and psychosocial care.
Organization: HandReach
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
We were selected through the Chase Community Giving Challenge as one of the top 100 charities by voters on Facebook.
We have been awarded the "Unsung Heroes of Compassion" award by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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C. Scott Hultman is a Distinguished Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Associate Professor of Surgery at UNC Chapel Hill, serving as Director of the Jaycees Burn Center specializing in pediatric burn injuries. He has traveled with HandReach and consulted significantly on sustainable integrated practices that promote long-term healing and transformation for both patients and burn units alike.
Phone: 919-966-2300
Email: scott_hultman@med.unc.edu
Article: http://www.handreach.org/psn_January2010.pdf
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Dr. Lorna Hayward is an accredited physical therapist and Associate Professor at the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. She has worked extensively with us overseas and published research articles on the efficacy of HandReach's model of care and education.
Phone: 617-373-3180
Email: l.hayward@neu.edu
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Scaling (the next step will be growing impact on a regional or even global scale)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
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Cost.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The world's poorest children are at highest risk of the world's most devastating injuries -- burns and amputations. Healing from these injuries and getting back to a full life requires integrated care -- surgery, rehabilitation, orthopedics, nursing, and psychosocial care that work together under one roof, from admission to discharge and beyond. Most developing world hospitals have these units separated by fiscal and administrative constraints that make it impossible for injured kids to receive care beyond initial surgery. Typical poor families scrape together all they have, and can barely afford surgery -- there is nothing left for rehabilitation or prosthetics, much less psychosocial care. These kids most often return home to a life of isolation, dependence, and disability.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
HandReach is working to develop model pediatric burn units in that integrate injured kids' care in one place and connect these units via telemedicine for long-term training and consultation on best practices. We are working now to develop a Prosthetics Unit Project (PUP) in Beijing that will train units throughout China, Asia, and other countries on how to work with children with devastating limb deficiencies caused by burns or traumatic amputations. This unit will work closely with surgery and nursing, with the rehabilitation program we have already developed, and with a growing psychosocial program, to restore kids' mobility and function, and to help them stay equipped and motivated to get back to school and a full, healthy life. Trauma injuries cost the our world more productive hours than cancer and heart disease combined, so we are focusing on healthy but injured children with potential for a lifetime of healthy contributions ahead of them.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Children sustaining serious burns or amputations will be admitted to our partner hospital, the China General Air Force Hospital, where an integrated team of clinicians, connected with an integrated team in Boston via telemedicine, will consult on best practices and outcomes for each case. This unit will treat hundreds of patients each year and train dozens of clinicians from throughout China, Asia, and elsewhere, thus impacting patient populations exponentially as clinical practice becomes more innovative and effective.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
We are not aware of any other organizations that are working in this way to develop long-term, lasting change within other countries' national infrastructures. There are surgical organizations like Operation Smile, ReSurge, the Grossman Burn Foundation, etc. typically sponsor overseas missions for clinicians, but are unable to commit to the long-term rehabilitation process, which has made it difficult for them to work with burn survivors who may need years of complex care and rehabilitation.
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HandReach founder Brecken Chinn Swartz brought burn survivor Zhou Lin to Boston Shriners for reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation in 2006. One day in the playroom, in the midst of layers of complex but utterly compassionate treatment and therapy, Zhou Lin asked, "Why don't we have this kind of hospital in China?" Brecken was stunned and stumbled over words: "It's kind of complicated; economics are very different in different places." "Well, we should build hospitals like this for all kids to have," Zhou Lin said. "You're right," said Brecken. "I have no idea to do that, but I'm sure some people do. Let's find them." So here we are. We believe hospitals that treat children's trauma injuries should be free (like Shriners used to be), and worldwide (so that the kids who need them the most can get to them). HandReach has been providing free help since 2007, free treatment clinics since 2010, and we hope someday to achieve the dream of free hospitals offering world-class care.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
HandReach has already partnered with a hospital in Beijing to help underserved child amputees and burn survivors in China gain full mobility. Our proposed Prosthetics Unit Project (PUP) will allow skilled American & Chinese clinicians to work on site with local surgical, orthopedic, and rehabilitation personnel to provide custom prosthetics fitting and rehab plans for poor children suffering from traumatic amputations and complex burn injuries. The unit will be connected by telemedicine to our team in the US for joint consultation to serve as a hub for training and practice in HandReach's five-pronged model integrating advanced surgery, orthopedics, nursing, rehab, and psychosocial care. Over time, we will collect best practices into a free multimedia database available worldwide.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
In one training clinic, our team trains about 20 clinicians, each of whom treats around 50 kids per year, so around 1,000 children can be impacted annually. We have brought about 10 of our most complex cases to Shriners Hospitals in the US since 2006, and they are all doing great, but children shouldn't have to go to another country for care. One such case is MingHe, whose legs were burned off almost entirely when he was kidnapped by a neighbor, buried head-down in a hole, and his legs set on fire. Clinicians in China said he would never walk again -- his stumps were just too short and scarred -- but after a few weeks at Shriners, MingHe is walking to school again. His father, a mechanic, is now passionate about prosthetics and wants to help other kids. Right now, we have to bring MingHe to the US for prosthetics fittings, but our Prosthetics Unit Project in China can not only treat MingHe close to home, but employ his father and help hundreds of kids gain full, lasting mobility.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
With the presence of our Prosthetics Unit Project in Beijing, we can train hundreds more clinicians in China through regular clinics supported by ongoing telemedicine conferencing, ramping our potential impact up to tens of thousands of children per year. We seek to have five partner hospitals in China (NE, NW, SE, SW, and Central) connected with hundreds of smaller units countrywide. Once this scalable model is established, we can begin work in other countries, leveraging expertise and resources from China to build programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Our 5-year goal is to have our five partner units in China up and running, with a pilot in at least one other country. This system will be supported by an online multimedia database to distribute video pods of best practices.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
In China and elsewhere in the developing world, there is serious social stigma around physical differences. Many of our patients are denied basic rights to schooling and employment because of visible scarring or differences in mobility. This is one reason we hope to gain greater impact and be able to treat many more patients annually -- having success treating thousands of burn survivors each year creates critical mass to develop the kind of support network for burn survivors necessary to facilitate social change and open doors. We are networked with the Phoenix Society and other burn foundations here in the US, as well as the Sunshine Foundation in Taiwan, and we seek a signficant role bringing these networks together to provide lasting treatment and support for survivors worldwide.
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The PUP is in place, with two professional orthopedists, two technicians, and two interns
Task 1
Purchase and install the equipment (we already have the space and equipment list ready).
Task 2
Gather enough funding to hire our 6-person team. (If we can invest $10,000 in upstart, our Chinese partners will do the rest.)
Task 3
Identify and hire the perfect staff. (We already have lodging and meals in place.)
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Telemedicine capability is in place, and at least 20 children have been brought to full mobility with prosthetics and rehab.
Task 1
Purchase and install the telemedicine equipment in both Beijing and Boston.
Task 2
Generate the staffing list in Boston to host regular weekly clinics.
Task 3
Work with our local hospital in Beijing to set up patient scheduling and rehab time.
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HandReach has links with the Phoenix Society, the world’s largest association of burn survivors, as well as with Shriners Hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Jaycees Burn Center, the US Army Surgical Research Institute, the University of Maryland, Tufts University, Curry College, Northeastern University, and with our partner institutions in China, including 512Children.org, Overseas Saving the Chinese Children Foundation (OSCCF), A Life A Time Foundation, the China Federation of the Disabled, the Chinese Red Cross, Angel Moms, and Aixin Foundation.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
HandReach has been invited to hold burn clinics in India, Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Ecuador, and El Salvador, but we have held back from opening new programs until we have a deep well of expertise and resource management practices running fluidly in China. We desire to base major hubs in large countries with strong infrastructural capability, so India may be our next site (to leverage its technological resources as we expand telemedicine presence), followed by the strongest hospital centers we can find in West Africa and Latin America.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Because HandReach's model is based around integrating the five crucial elements of care, our internal communication must be open, transparent, collegial, and based around a deep respect for each other's disciplines and utmost dedication to full healing of the children we serve. As such, our team spends regular time together developing relationships through clinical exchange, therapeutic drumming, and social gatherings. We are all responsible for fundraising and outreach within our respective communities, and we prioritize doing all we can to equalize resources between the professions so that we can model a truly equal, inclusive model of interdisciplinary cross-pollination among units overseas that are historically fragmented and weighed down by hierarchies of age, gender, and politics.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
HandReach innovates -- firstly in terms of best practices in pediatric trauma care, but also in networking, communication, and expressive therapies. However, we are very small and could benefit greatly from consulting and mentoring in technological possibilities, legal issues, and marketing outreach. We seek to collaborate with fostering wellness for children injured by trauma.
Created on 12/7/2011 by Association TOWERING POPLARS
TOWERING POPLARS proposes group Equine therapy as a model of active rehabilitation, empowerment and social inclusion of children and adults trauma victims.
Organization: Association for Rehabilitation and Education TOWERING POPLARS
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
Less than a year
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Istrian Forum of Associations of Persons with Disabilities (IFU OSI)- the most relevant reference is the acknowledgement and approval that our programmes gained from 7 respectable associations of persons with disabilities of Istria County (Association of the Blind, Multiple Sclerosis Society, The Society of Persons with Cerebral Palsy, Autism Association, The Association of Paraplegics and Quadriplegics, Society of Persons with Muscular Dystrophy and the Association of Visually Impaired Persons), which decided to establish partnership with our association - e-mail: udruga-slijepih-zupanije-istarske@pu.t-com.hr, TEL: +385 52/543-494; Also the Association for Culture "Kamene priče" is our cooperant regarding cultural and educational programmes for rehabilitation and education of trauma victims - cooperation on IT workshops and graphic design, foreign languages, art and pottery workshops, photography workshops, musical therapy, e-mail of the president: tomislav.pavleka@optinet.hr, TEL: +385 52 824-235.
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Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Quality.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Lack of access to consistent quality health care and rehabilitation for trauma victims, inadequate system of psychosocial support, poverty, and social exclusion. Discrimination and vulnerability of people with disabilities (PWD). Lack of confidence and trauma caused by social exclusion. Insufficient public awareness of the rights, capacities and needs of PWD. Dependence on social welfare and inability to meet their daily living needs. And, as the most important for this project, their isolation from each others, luck of possibilities for "peer support".
Also, project gives an alternative to standard unimaginative rehabilitation programs, focused on mostly unsuccessful clinical rehabilitation in hospitals, with very limited social interaction and a complete lack of meaningful content.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
By providing organized group hipotherapy (riding with physiotherapist) and therapeutic riding for people with various forms of disabilities, the project will give to PWD the capacity to lead independent lives: reach personal autonomy, economic independence and full social integration, and reduce the risks of exclusion, vulnerability and discrimination. It will enhance their physical abilities; improve overall movement and function; communication skills; regulate hyperactivity and anxiety; increase self-esteem and desire to achieve independence; ensure socialization through team work and work with animals; give them sense of equality and values; motivate them for education, employment and work, and "peer support”; raise public awareness on their abilities and potential; and improve the overall quality of their life.
This model of active rehabilitation ensures multidisciplinary approach to rehabilitation of various groups of PWD, regardless of the degree and form of their disability.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
A group of cca 20 users will be attending Equine therapy through a 6 months period (6-8 users per month, 3-5 days a week, 3-5 hours a day).
Association will collect medical records and records of users' financial states, to adjust therapy to their needs and ensure equal access for all. We will organize the transport, volunteers to accompany them to therapy and provide all necessary support.
Therapies will be provided by professional and experienced therapists of Riding school "Haber Farm”. Therapy will improve their overall motor skills and physical functionality, gait, coordination, balance, attention, sensory properties and thus doing daily tasks. It will support development of intellectual abilities, help them develop the speech, cognitive abilities and ability to swallow, which facilitates communication. It is a healthy exercise in fresh air. The rider is being complemented by a magnificent animal, learns about him/herself and his/her environment. Self-confidence and self-esteem grow.
To deepen these results, the workshops of non-formal learning and experience exchange will be organized twice a month. The issues covered will be connected with topics that concern our users the most.
Monitoring and evaluation will be implemented throughout the project in order to gain insight into the effectiveness and results of rehabilitation for each participant. Additional evaluation of the social impact in their close environment will be conducted after 6 months. We will use all available resources and every opportunity to promote the project in public: media, web etc.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Therapy with horses has been around for ages. There are clubs in Croatia offering riding as method of rehabilitation for PWD. What is innovative is our approach, proposing for the first time group therapy for people with different disabilities, enabling their socialization, experience exchange and "peer support" as important aspects of psycho-social rehabilitation. Our advantages are: cooperation with the only club that provides hipotherapy, project's location that benefits from a particularly favorable micro-climate, as result of which a hospital for orthopedics and rehabilitation was built, which is "a seaside resort" for our potential users from around the world. Project can easily be multiplied in other countries, but also become "a tourist offer", ensure finances for sustainability.
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There are many AHA! moments in this story. It's been clinically proven that just being in the vicinity of horses changes our brainwave patterns. It has a calming effect which helps stop people becoming fixated on past or negative events. Apart from many evident physical benefits, sometimes even so great as making people with cerebral palsy walk again, Equine therapy has proven to be particularly useful for children with autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and bipolar disorders - all of whom may find it difficult to communicate, interact with other people and carry out instructions. Even those showing severe anti-social and aggressive behavior become calmer and more communicative. The most important AHA! moment is that the success happens outdoors, in natural environment and group interaction, not in clinic. It is psycho-social empowerment, treats the trauma victims as subjects, not as objects, in rehabilitation process, allowing them to control the scope of their rehabilitation.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
To: move the focus of rehabilitation for trauma victims from clinical institutions and closed spaces into communal area and natural environment; enable equal access for children and adults with disabilities and disorders to sports and social activities; maintain and improve their physical and mental health, stamina and mobility as the basic precondition for all their activities, work productivity and human living; enhance the chances of trauma victims for social inclusion; contribute to the education of trauma victims on basic human rights and responsible citizenship; combat discrimination against PWD, promote their capacities, raise public awareness about their potential and rights; and promote and affirm proposed method of active rehabilitation as the successful one.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since this is a relatively new project proposal, based on the previous experience of the founders of the Association who recognized the need for social inclusion of trauma victims through previous pilot programs that have resulted in psychological empowerment of users, development and acquisition of new skills necessary for social development, in this stage of our work, the most relevant impact is the acknowledgement and approval that our project gained from 7 respectable associations of persons with disabilities of Istria County (Association of the Blind, Multiple Sclerosis Society, The Society of Persons with Cerebral Palsy, Autism Association, The Association of Paraplegics and Quadriplegics, Society of Persons with Muscular Dystrophy and the Association of Visually Impaired Persons), which decided to establish partnership on this project with our association. The impact is actually strengthening the capacity of CSOs of PWD for support provision for their members by joint action.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
Long-term impacts for improving the quality of life and socialization of trauma victims and their families are: transfer of the acquired confidence in the real, everyday, business and family life; improvement of physical condition, increased physical activity, with positive effects on overall health; increased level of their autonomy; increased number of young PWD in secondary schools and colleges, as well as of employed PWD; increased tolerance and trust of the caregivers in PWD; more PWD and their families engaged in the provision of "peer support” and fight for their rights; raised public awareness about capabilities, potentials and rights of PWD; and finally PWD taking a major role in decision making processes. Also, we hope that in 5 years the project will become international.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The luck of financial resources. Beneficiaries will pay a modest fee, according to economic abilities, although it will be a symbolic participation in certain cases. The share of donors will be an important for the "healthy" functioning of the Association. We will continue with fundraising activities. Once the project becomes continuous program, we may as well develop activities on a commercial basis to generate income for reinvestment in the project. What we fear the most is the global crisis that already significantly influence the social rights. Another barrier could be a luck of support from relevant authorities and media. But, we already made good connections with local and regional authorities, and the project will be widely promoted as the solution for the benefit of the community.
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First 20 beneficiaries successfuly completed their therapies
Task 1
Close the financial construction/acquire necessary financial resources
Task 2
Organize: partners, volinteers, beneficiaries and their families, transport and the chedule of therapies, workshops etc.
Task 3
Implement therapies and workshops, develop questionnaires and collect feedbacks/indicators of their impact
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Pilot project evaluated, promoted results and second round of the project poised to lounch - ensured continuation of the project
Task 1
Conduct pilot project evaluation, including first evaluation of social impact, public promotion of the results
Task 2
Acquire necessary financial resources for continuation of the programme
Task 3
Gather another 20 (or more) beneficiaries/project participants - posibly international group of participants
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The partnership has been established with 7 respectable associations of persons with disabilities of Istria County: Association of the Blind, Multiple Sclerosis Society, The Society of Persons with Cerebral Palsy, Autism Association, The Association of Paraplegics and Quadriplegics, Society of Persons with Muscular Dystrophy and the Association of Visually Impaired Persons, and also with Riding school "Haber Farm" that will provide therapies. Cooperation has been established with Istrian Volunteers' Centre in order to involve at least 5 volunteers to provide support for users during therapies.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Association TOWERING POPLARS is in contact with many European CSOs, through other projects that we developed. Since the Republic of Croatia is about to become a member of EU in 2013., we aim to raise this project in future, and our activities in general, on European level, develop cross-border cooperation and involve CSOs from EU, and their beneficiaries. Of course, we are open for cooperation with organizations from all over the world, but the European cooperation will increase our chances to become a user of financial resources from EU funds. And we also wish to promote this method in EU.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Reliable partners and associates (CSOs of people with disabilities active for more than 50 years); experience of the members of our Association; motivated users; experienced and professional therapists, internationally recognized as experts in their field. Good preparation of project implementation and organization, regular briefings/meetings of project partners, volunteers and other staff working on the project, in order to discuss the upcoming project activities, prepare an implementation plan, agree on delegation of tasks, evaluate implemented activities, etc.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Association TOWERING POPLARS welcomes all potential associates, partners and promoters of the same social values from around the world. We actively work on networking and wide promotion of innovative models of rehabilitation and education, as well as on development of new projects for improving the quality of life of vulnerable and marginalized social groups, especially children and young adults.
Created on 12/2/2011 by RachelBN
Breaking the cycle of poverty facing millions affected by mental health disorders around the world, through social franchising of a community based solution.
Organization: BasicNeeds
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How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Highly Commended in the UK Charity Awards 2011; Founder Director Chris Underhill has been awarded an MBE by the British monarch for service to UK and international disability.
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Reference 1: Dr Gary Belkin. Email address: Gary.Belkin@nyumc.org. Dr. Gary S. Belkin is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University and currently serves as Senior Director for Psychiatric Services for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Responsible for policy and systems development for public health and mental health services in US urban settings, Gary is also developing a set of projects around which to “grow” the newly established Program in Global Mental Health within the Department of Psychiatry. “Global mental health” is an emerging approach which brings together health and social policy into a globalized perspective.
Reference 2: Mr Bernie Waldron. Email address: bernie.waldron@gmail.com, +44 (7967) 275291. Bernie Waldron has had a full executive career, including as former Director of Corporate Strategy at IBM, and currently non-exec Director of IPPLUS plc. He is also now an Associate of Criticaleye (where he mentors CEOs of growing businesses) and Director of charitable foundation Venture Partnerships Foundation. Formed by a group of commercial entrepreneurs, corporate advisers, financiers and senior industry figures in 2005, VPF is dedicated to supporting social entrepreneurs and the dynamic organizations that they run.
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Scaling (the next step will be growing impact on a regional or even global scale)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Quality.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Globally, 13% of all disease is attributable to mental health disorders. 75% of those suffering from mental illness live in low and middle income countries. 75% to 85% of those are not able to access treatment.
Mental illness is both a cause and consequence of poverty and other forms of ill-health. Poverty brings with it stress, exclusion, malnutrition, which contribute to mental illness. Conversely, the stigma, discrimination and abuse those with mental illness face, makes it even harder for them to participate in family and community, and they are more prone to disease. It's widely recognised that innovative and enterprising solutions are needed that will enable scale up, empowering individuals & communities to address the links between poverty, exclusion and mental illness.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
BasicNeeds programmes follow a unique and highly efficient and effective Model for Mental Health and Development (endorsed by the WHO), which tackles people’s poverty, as well as their health. Social franchising of this model will enable us to scale up our solution to 500,000 users and their families by 2016, without the need to expand our current structure and services. The MHD model builds community mental health services, local capacity, access to livelihoods, as well as having a integral research and management component. At the heart of the model is respect for the integrity of the individual to lead their own development. Working together, mutually supportive self-help groups can improve treatment access, challenge discrimination. We have consulted business advisors who have confirmed that the MHD model is highly suitable to market as a Social Franchise, and can be done so in a way that ensures local leadership, local innovations, sustainability, and quality are maintained.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Quality of service delivery is a significant challenge faced in resource poor settings, so quality assurance is central to our Social Franchising model. An example is our work with Livelihoods Education and Development Society(LEADS), Nepal, who is helping us develop the Social Franchising operational prototype. LEADS works in Baglung and Myagdi districts with people with mental disorders and disabilities, to support them to realise their basic rights and entitlements. Using a quality approach, BasicNeeds trained LEADS in the implementation of the MHD Model in May 2010 and provides ongoing mentoring support. LEADS, using Basic Needs training materials, has trained govt health workers from the regional and district hospitals, who staff mental health follow-up clinics. 400 people access treatment services from these clinics. 80 have already begun to earn incomes and LEADS are supporting them to attend existing community Self Help Groups from which they also access emotional/practical peer support. LEADS also uses BasicNeeds tools such as participatory data analysis, intrinsic to the MHD model, to gather research for advocacy, and to improve the relevance/effectiveness. This has made an enormous difference to the lives of individuals living with mental illness, e.g. Padam, bipolar sufferer says: “Before, nobody was close to me and I could not say my feelings, but now everyone comes to talk with me and I can express my feelings. I am the head of my family and have done nothing for my wife and children, but now I have the hope that I can do something for them.”
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
BasicNeeds has been recognised as a global leader in integrated development responses to the challenges faced by people with mental health disorders in resource poor settings. Social franchising of our MMHD approach is a unique, innovatory response to the challenge of scale up that is facing the sector. Chris Underhill, Founder Director, gave a keynote presentation at the second summit for Global Mental Health in Cape Town in November 2011 on Best Practices in Scaling Up Mental Health Care, and our model has been endorsed by the WHO. BasicNeed's approach is very much one of collaboration within and beyond the mental health sector (including civil society, academic, and government bodies), rather than competition, and this is a key principle that underlies the Social Franchising model.
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Chris Underhill Founder Director of BasicNeeds has been working as a social entrepreneur in the field of disability and development since being a VSO volunteer as a young graduate. Having overcome adversities as a child, Chris has founded several organisations, including the international NGO Action on Disability and Development, and Thrive, a UK based charity that work with people with disabilities and health professionals through horticulture. Chris recognised that people affected by mental illness were still very much overlooked by international agencies, initial project work began in India, testing ideas for a specific model which later became the MMHD. By its 10th birthday, BasicNeeds had expanded to nine countries. Supported by a number of entrepreneurs, BasicNeeds has been grappling with how to achieve further scale up in a way that maintains the integrity of the approach, at the same time as enhancing quality and efficiencies. Social franchising is the perfect solution.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
By 2016 we will have directly improved the lives of 150,000 individuals with mental health disorders, and 350,000 carers and families, making a total of half a million people. Beyond improving the lives of these individuals, through the social franchising approach, we will also have built a low cost, efficient model for genuine sustainability and scale up. We are developing interesting, relevant and accessible guides and toolkits for the delivery on our Mental Health and Development Model. Alongside this we will offer training, and ongoing support to franchisees, and a quality assurance validation. As a result a larger number of partners, in a larger number of countries, will be equipped to provide high quality, grassroots care and support for people with mental health disorders.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Since 2000 BasicNeeds cumulatively reached 85,308 people with mental illness and epilepsy in 10 countries. In 2010 alone this figure was 44,494, 31,631 adults, 4398 adolescents, and 8465 children. Through careful research and data collection, the organisation has a remarkably in depth understanding of the individuals that we reach and how we change their lives. More powerful than these statistics, however, are the transformations that we witness daily:
- A Sri Lankan fisherman recovering from schizophrenia obtained a bank loan to start a business producing coconut oil.
- A psychiatric nurse in Ghana worked closely with a traditional healer to humanely control the aggressive behavior of a man with psychosis.
- A care giver in Uganda was able to return to her work on the farm once her husband received medication which gave him independence.
Our approach brings visibility to Users and their families. This helps in changing attitudes, influencing policy and mobilising resources.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
We aim to scale up improve the lives of half a million people (150,000 people with mental illness and their carers) by 2016. With new franchisees already in place in Vietnam, Pakistan and China, we will be impacting on at least 12 countries, with plans to adopt franchisees in others. Central to the strategy, is to work with existing BasicNeeds branches as they move to independence, with existing partners (who may or may not be mental health specialists), and with new partners. As important, if not more, as reaching these large numbers of people is the fact that the Social Franchise has at its core a Quality Assurance system that will address a fundamental challenge in the countries where BasicNeeds operates, which is the delivery of high quality mental health services and programmes.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The biggest risk that we have identified is that future franchisees could drift away from, or deviate from, the BasicNeeds model by failing to keep BasicNeeds standards of quality. This could threaten the reputation of the brand. We will guard against this by developing a quality assurance system, which our franchisees will sign up to. We also believe that the quality and value of our product, which is well tested and carefully developed through years of experience, will motivate franchisees to self-regulate. Another risk is that performance measurement processes, which we believe are essential, become too complex, and our franchisees will not have the capacity to comply. We are therefore keeping the literature as simple, user friendly, and minimalist as possible.
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We will have completed drafting, and commenced field testing of the master package of franchising documentation.
Task 1
Complete development of quality, user friendly, Operations and Franchising Manuals, Training Kit, Quality Assurance Toolkit.
Task 2
Establish expression of interest systems for the franchising model.
Task 3
Commence field test suite of franchising documentation.
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By 12 months, we will have formally launched the federation.
Task 1
Complete field testing of franchising documentation.
Task 2
Train Master Franchisees (one each from two countries: India and Kenya)
Task 3
Hold launch event for the federation.
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Partnership is central to the way that we work. We currently have partnerships in all countries in which we work, with local NGOs, with local and national government health services, and with academic bodies. We are also involved in international networks, where our policy and research are highly regarded. These include the Global Forum for Community Mental Health, and the Movement for Global Mental Health. We collaborate with WHO, are members of the US NIH's Scientific Panel, and our Director is Special Advisor to the World Psychiatric Association on issues of involving users in advocacy.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
BasicNeeds has recently opened new programmes in Vietnam, China and Pakistan, as well as using the Mental Health and Development model in the UK. We are also beginning to develop programmes in the Sudan, and in Ethiopia. In the existing countries, in Africa, India and Sri Lanka we target a range of specific, hard to reach, populations. For example, in Kenya we are working with nomadic tribes who live in harsh conditions in rural areas, in Uganda we work with young people affected by conflict. In Sri Lanka, Uganda and Tanzania we are working with vulnerable populations and young people.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
The internal factors that will contribute to the success of this venture are the size, leadership and culture of BasicNeeds. As a small, and highly energetic organisation, with a very strong and clear central mission, BasicNeeds is able to be flexible and adaptable enough to be able to lead transition and innovation. The senior management team are highly skilled, with solid experience, and well networked. The organisation has a very strong culture of learning, based on thorough and careful research.
The external factors that will lead to success is a strong growing, global awareness (e.g. within WHO) of the particular needs of people with mental health disorders, the inter-relationship between mental health disorders and poverty, and the urgent need to scale up care and treatment.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
BasicNeeds is a leader in the field on community based approaches to mental health disorders in a development setting. We have a wealth of research, and have also developed highly innovative tools for research, such as our Participatory Data Approach (which puts the client group in charge of the research), and our Life Stories approach, which gives a unique insight into understanding impact.
Created on 11/17/2011 by artreliefinternational
ARI uses the healing benefits of art to create a fun and therapeutic atmosphere that helps people cope with the difficulties of their everyday lives.
Organization: Art Relief International
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Worked alongside MTV Exit, which focuses on ending human trafficking, to create an art installation
Selected as the subject of a documentary by Actuality Media, an organization that exposes changemakers.
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Elizabeth Lachowsky-Thaibinh
General email: info@wildflowerhome.net
Director and Founder of Wildflower Home, an organization that offers shelter, education, and other services to single mothers with children in Chiang Mai.
Judy Cook
judycook@loxinfo.co.th
053 230 037
Director of Hope Home Chiang Mai, a foster-care home for children with disabilities
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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Cost.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
In Thailand, there is a stigma against people living with disabilities, both mental and physical. These groups are often discriminated against in the community, and overall, there is a lack of resources available to them. Many people living with disabilities are able to access health care, but therapy is often disregarded. Therapy through art provides those without a voice a way to express themselves, and is crucial to their overall recovery and wellbeing.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Art Relief International aims to utilize the arts as a means of healing and self-exploration for various groups, including physically and mentally disabled children, youth and adults. It is our goal to work with stigmatized groups to assist in raising their levels of education and artistic literacy, and overall, provide a means to bridge differences in all forms. We operate in cooperation with care facilities, and provide efficient and innovative therapy. When participants create art, and reflect on the creative process, they are increasingly aware of the self and others. Art therapy also helps them cope with stress, symptoms, and strengthens cognitive abilities.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
We work closely with Hope Home, a residential home for children with physical disabilities that are referred by local orphanages. We visit at least once a week, and carry out workshops that incorporate music, movement and art. Currently, there are three residents at Hope Home, with disabilities including cerebral palsy and Down Syndrome. Through these weekly workshops, our volunteers and the caregivers at Hope Home have seen immense improvements. The children have improved their fine motor skills, being increasingly able to grasp a paintbrush and other objects. Art therapy has also improved the general well being of these children; they are able to make choices, such as paint and brush choice. This has given them a sense of control in their lives when most choices are made for them.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Chiang Mai welcomes plenty of non-governmental organizations, however we are the sole organization offering art therapy workshops to the community. Our organization has been created to fill a void in the various types of assistance delivered to the Chiang Mai community. We have succeeded in creating partnerships with several organizations, and we work in conjunction with them to deliver our workshops, but our viability is dependent on theirs.
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It started with Sara, Zoe and Wad, who were the past directors of an NGO named Cultural Canvas Thailand for two years. They had an excellent view of the various services provided by other NGOs in Chiang Mai. After a night of intense discussion about the creation of a new program, their minds wandered elsewhere. All artists, they started discussing some of the works of art surrounding them in their office. They each grew excited about the prospect of a new program using art as therapy, and soon after, the program was introduced. One of the most promising aspects of the program was its ability to be implemented across cultures, and its potential in other locations.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Art Relief International is an artistic outreach program that works with a wide-range of social and humanitarian organizations within the Chiang Mai community. We believe in providing a voice for individuals by exploring various creative means, including visual, performance, and experimental arts. Our mission is to promote expression and cultivate the creativity that lives inside each individual. We use art to create an atmosphere of inclusion and belonging where often there is none.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We have managed to improve the communication abilities in some of the groups we work with, and with more frequent workshops, we see more results. Results are both physical and mental; children with physical abilities are finding new ways to paint. Volunteers are constantly greeted with laughs and smiles when they arrive to workshops. We have seen the general improvement in the well being for many of the people we work with. ARI has started to spread awareness throughout the community about how successful and effective art therapy is, and we have seen more involvement with local artists and organizations.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
We are planning on expanding our project to other countries and we will begin to do full time projects with some of our organizations. For example, we would like to replace our weekly workshops with single mothers with a full time program where art therapy will be used in a broader comprehensive strategy. Overall, in the next five years we expect to achieve a greater impact by broadening the amount of the people we help in Chiang Mai, in Thailand and abroad by increasing the scope of our programs.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
Our main barrier thus far has been purely financial. However, our organization is currently improving its skills in grant writing, and we plan on procuring more funds for this project. We are also hoping that your foundation will help us continue our success.
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Create more partnerships in Chiang Mai, and increase the impact of art therapy
Task 2
Initiate new programs and projects
Task 3
Give ownership of these projects to our local partners
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Spread awareness of art therapy outside of Thailand to increase its impact
Task 1
Increase the number of partnerships beyond Chiang Mai and Thailand
Task 2
Work in cooperation with them to create new programs
Task 3
Transmission of ownership
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Currently, we partner with a variety of social and humanitarian organizations in Chiang Mai that specialize in a minority populations. They include the mentally and physically disabled, orphans, and single mothers with children. Our main partners include The Healing Family Foundation, Freedom House School, The Migrant Learning Center, Wildflower Home, Wat Pa Pao, Hope Home and Mitmuandek.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
ARI works with various minority groups in Chiang Mai, including Burmese migrant workers/refugees, people living with HIV/AIDS, and single mothers. Again, we are looking to expand our reach with these groups as well as with homes and schools that coordinate activities for those with disabilities. We recently partnered with Sri Sangwan School, which provides education and boarding to children and youth with disabilities. We will provide the school with volunteer occupational/physical therapists, as well as art therapists, in order to achieve best results for the students studying there.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Our innovative approach to therapy has been successful thanks to open-minded partner organizations in Chiang Mai who have given us a chance to show them the significant impact art therapy can have on the people they assist. In general, the Chiang Mai community is very active in the arts, and it is this environment that has helped us succeed.
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Created on 11/3/2011 by Mobility4All
Crutches 4 Africa enables the physically disabled people in dire need to begin life again with hope for the future.
Organization: Crutches 4 Africa
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Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Chad Hills long time friend, Works for Focus on the Family fighting gambling and encouraging abstinence.
chad.hills@citizenlink.com
719-648-0319
Maxwell Marx
•Director at Marx Consulting International
Youth and Policy Consultant (Rwanda) at USAID
Director and ex-officio at Global Education in Action Inc
Consultant - HIV and AIDS Branch at UNFPA
Friend and distributor of crutches for our organization since 2009
: (202) 437-9722 (US) (+254) (729) 774909 (Kenya)
e-mails: Maxwell.marx@gmail.com disabilitydevelopment@gmail.com
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Growth (your pilot is up and running, and starting to expand)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for more than 5 years
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Cost.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
Funding the containers we fill. We are able to get people to see the need to recycle their devices and we have hundreds of volunteers willing to gather them, but short term storage and shipping funds are lacking. We have 4 states collecting and we have to travel to them all to get the devices gathered to a central shipping port.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
The solution we believe is letting people know what we are trying to do and garnering their financial support for ongoing costs.
We believe there are multi millionaires who could fund us with their interest being shifted to our non-profit for a year. The loaner donor solution. We need three million dollars to get the project well organized, and the verification of recipients and follow up covered.
Gathering devices is expensive and storing them is becoming a problem. We see the answer is funding so we can rent space and trucks to do the work needed.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Funding will allow us to branch out to every state in the country, and store and ship the items efficiently. Time is everything to those who are waiting for a device to help them integrate into their communities.
Primary activity is letting people know not to discard their surplus items. Recycling these keeps our landfills cleaner. Moving them to a storage shed, barn, warehouse or other space that has been donated has been a blessing, but is very temporary and unreliable. Renting a warehouse or a storage unit would make so much sense.
Finding truckers willing to pick up small amounts of devices has been a problem. We need to find people (via internet or direct mail) who are willing to pick these up and get them to a local warehouse or storage unit.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
no one is doing what we are.
There are wheelchair donating organizations, but canes walkers and crutches are ignored. We are also looking into creating new devices as we see unique needs in the African communities we have seen already where none of the devices we have to offer will work. Engineers at the Colorado school of Mines is working to develop a wheeled cart for those who are so twisted by polio and other birth defects so as to be unable to even utilize a wheelchair.
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When we went to Uganda to help Hope4Kids International we saw the need for mobility devices as people were dragging themselves to church on their hands, or using a tree branch to hop along. When we were editing the footage we taped for a DVD intended to promote the H4KI project we were again impressed that there was something we COULD do.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
Get mobility devices to everyone who needs them, by redistributing surplus items found worldwide.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
We have gathered and distributed over thirty thousand devices since 2006.
Countries who have benefited include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Christmas Island, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, and Ghana.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
We grew from 10,000 devices in 5 years to 30,000 in the 6th year.
This is growing exponentially as manufacturers of devices find that we can take their outdated models, and surplus and utilize it abroad. I feel that we can keep the landfills free of this material and cause many people to gain independence, diginity, and common respect in their communities. I have seen first hand how a person can change and become productive and proud of their achievements in a very short time when they are free to move about.
Education, health, voting, respect, jobs, the list is endless. Right now the people who are disabled are so marginalized as to be chained in huts, never to see the light of day or go to a toilet. This has to change.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
The only barriers are ignorance and apathy. We plan to have a campaign in place within a year that will address both. Hopefully online and television.
We are primarily film makers and photographers and feel our skills will be utilized well in acheiving this goal.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Have enough money in the bank to fund the project for one full year. $127,000.00
Task 2
Itentify ways to have successful fundraisers.
Task 3
Create a video production that will encourage empathy, giving and volunteerism.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Have a million three dollar donors
Task 1
Educate the public internationally and viral style
Task 2
Have such a strong online presence that we will be recognized around the world
Task 3
Contact schools, and churches nationwide to have assemblies, and awareness days.
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We are partnered with our local church Lookout Mountain Community Church who gives us $500 a month.
Carex is a manufacturing and distribution company who has donated thousands of items for us to give away.
NOVA orthomed has also contributed many items we have given away.
Project C.U.R.E. helps us store and ship items when they have something going out.
We partner with Rotary Clubs wherever possible worldwide to promote what we are doing and to collect and distribute when possible.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
Yes we believe that the teenagers of America have the most disposable income of all the demographics in the nation.
They also have a desire to help, an innate will to make this world a greener and better place, and have a heart for the less fortunate.
We plan to take teens to Africa to see in person the difference one walker can make, and plan to start fundraisers, and awareness days in schools and churches around the nation.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
Keeping it simple is very important to us. Get what others need from those who have too much. Not really Robin Hood, but hey, there are billions of used mobility devices, or excess production locally, or overstock that needs to be diminished. Clean, fast, turnaround is our goal. This year has been exceptional in those areas and with help we know that the future holds fabulous success in reaching our goals.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
We can go and make videos of the projects in situ.
We can do photography of items, ideas, products, people who need imaging.
We can create marketing tools including brocures, business cards, promotional materials, and are willing to offer art for auctions and fundraising.
Created on 10/28/2011 by Robern
MoPOEd teaches sustainable pediatric orthopaedic surgery hands-on, on-site, to healthcare providers in the developing world.
Organization: Mobile Pediatric Orthopaedic Education
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Is your organization a
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
MoPOEd has received two grants from the Ronald McDonald House Charities. The program has presented results from its Cambodia program at the Israeli Orthopaedic Association meeting and a paper has been accepted by the leading orthopaedic journal, the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, for publication.
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Arthur Klein, MD
Senior Vice President, Children's Services at North Shore/LIJ Health System and Chief of Staff at Cohen Children's Medical Center of NY.
AKlein2@nshs.edu
718-470-3203
Dr. Klein is a pediatric cardiologist and now runs the pediatric service line for the entire North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, the second largest health system in the United States. Dr. Klein is very familiar with the MoPOEd program.
Hugh Watts, MD
Chief of Staff, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Los Angeles Unit
hwatts@ucla.edu
818-957-5626
Dr. Watts is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA School of Medicine, and has traveled extensively to teach pediatric orthopaedics in developing countries. He has participated in the MoPOEd program throughout its development and traveled to Cambodia and Mozambique for the MoPOEd program.
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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two
Access, Quality.
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
With almost 50% of the developing world population under the age of 15, there is a large number of children with orthopaedic conditions that do not have access to pediatric orthopaedic care. Morbidity from fractures, bone infections, and congenital deformities results in substantial disability and a drain on social services. Mozambique has 22 million residents yet only one trained pediatric orthopaedic surgeon and about 15 orthopaedic surgeons for the entire country. Without quality pediatric orthopaedic care, children remain neglected and will find it more difficult to become contributing members of society.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
By providing an onsite training program, additional pediatric orthopaedic surgeons can be trained, providing sustainable pediatric orthopaedic care for the children of Mozambique. In addition, the program creates a teaching program with a curriculum that can be used by the Mozambiquan surgeons to continue to train others (true sustainability).
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
MoPOEd sends an experienced volunteer pediatric orthopaedic surgeon to the Central Hospital of Maputo every month for a 2 week period. Each surgeon works in clinic, makes rounds daily with the staff, gives lectures to the staff and residents, and assists in the operating room for all pediatric orthopaedic cases.
Over a one year period, the Central Hospital receives a 6 month fellowship in pediatric orhtopaedics. We also provide CD-roms with orthopaedic textbooks to the program participants and provide ongoing support via the internet and Skype.
The program focuses on endemic disease, and teaches utilizing locally available implants. In addition, we try to focus on teaching the teachers in order to make the program sustainable. The program is approved by the Eduardo Mondlane School of Medicine.
MoPOEd arranges and pays for the travel, room and board of the visiting surgeons. It arranges contacts and assists with development of a curriculum.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) is the largest nonprofit program that includes orthopaedic surgery. However, there is no set curriculum and many hospitals in which HVO is active do not care for children. There is currently no other organized pediatric orthopaedic program in Mozambique.
There is an ongoing pediatric program at the Central Hospital of Maputo through the Global Health Program at UCLA School of Medicine as well as an internal medicine program through UC San Diego. These programs focus on other issues but are collaborative (particularly the pediatric program) and can help support the MoPOEd program.
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In 2007 I operated on a Cambodian orphan with a severe spinal deformity brought to the United States for care. After the surgery, her expected host family declined to take her and she ended up living with my family for the summer during her recovery. Once she returned to Cambodia, we visited her at the orphanage and arranged to help with some pediatric orthopaedic surgery at a local charity hospital. It was then that we realized there was no pediatric orthopaedic surgeon in the entire country of 14 million, yet approximately half the population was under 15 years of age. My wife and I determined to make a difference and we came up with the idea to teach sustainable pediatric orthopaedics in the developing world using volunteer surgeons who could each donate 2 weeks out of the year to travel and teach. We have completed 2 years in Cambodia, and trained 6 surgeons in pediatric orthopaedics. We are now completing our first year in Mozambique, having sent 8 surgeons in the first 9 months.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
The goal of the MoPOEd program is to improve care for children with orthopaedic diseases related to fractures and trauma, congenital anomalies, and infections in the developing world. We wish to train local physicians and healthcare providers onsite, hands-on, with locally available implants in order to establish a sustainable program that could then train their own surgeons and healthcare providers. In this way, the care for children with orthopaedic diseases will be improved for generations to come.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
The MoPOEd program has trained 6 Khmer surgeons at the Children's Surgical Center in Phnom Penh over a two year period (2009-2010). Over 70 lectures were given and over 200 surgeries were performed. The surgical treatment for children with orthopaedic diseases in Cambodia has significantly improved and patients are now referred to the clinic from around the country. Some or the physicians trained are now giving lectures on pediatric orthopaedic subjects at the local medical school, and one of the surgeons will be hosted as a traveling scholar this year at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, the largest society of children's orthopaedists in the world.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
As these surgeons will perform surgery throughout their careers, the impact on future children with orthopaedic disease will be magnified. In addition, the training even improves their care of many adult patients. We expect that thousands of orthopaedic surgeries will be performed over the next 5 years at the Children's Surgical Center.
The Central Hospital of Maputo is the only hospital in the entire country with a full orthopaedic department. We expect an even greater impact after MoPOEd completes its mission in this location.
What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?
There are two major barriers to success of the MoPOEd program.
1. Critical thinking. Many healthcare providers in the developing world are taught in a rather dogmatic style. They can regurgitate information but will not question authority. Thus, making decisions when there are more than one solution to a problem becomes difficult. Teaching surgeons to think of all alternatives prior to deciding on a particular treatment is a major focus of our program.
2. Infrastructure. To teach pediatric orthopaedics requires a certain amount of infrastructure such as operating rooms appropriately equipped, adequately trained anaesthesiologists, as well as postoperative care. Work ethic tends to vary from country to country and the quality of this care can vary from individual to individual.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Milestones will include the number of visiting surgeons, cases performed and improvement in outcomes.
Task 1
Continue our success in attracting qualified pediatric orthopaedic surgeons to volunteer.
Task 2
Continue to collect data on treatments, surgeries and lectures.
Task 3
Create a reasonable evaluation system on quality of care improvements.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
After the next 12 months, we expect to have the Central Hospital of Maputo training its own pediatric orthopaedic surgeons.
Task 1
Provide adequate training to the local surgeons in how to teach others.
Task 2
Encourage the local surgeons to use critical thinking and create treatment algorithms.
Task 3
Improve the collaboration of the supporting departments at the Central Hospital of Maputo in this endeavor.
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We have received grants from Ronald McDonald House Charities. We have partnered with Partners in Pediatric Progress through the UCLA Golobal Health Department. In addition, our traveling surgeons are members of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Scoiety of North America.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
We have been invited to create a program in the Dominican Republic and are currently in discussions with a hospital. The Dominican Republic has limited pediatric orthopaedic care and a large, improverished population. In addition, many patients from Haiti injured in the earthquake have made their way into the Dominican Republic for care.
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
We have a core group of directors and consultants that have retained the concept of the original MoPOEd program and helped avoid mission creep. This in combination with a group of volunteer surgeons that understand the the MoPOEd concepts has helped to propagate the program. Thus, our focus on teaching sustainable pediatric orthopaedics locally in developing countries has been successful. In addition, our program is time-limited so that the host programs will need to take ownership in approximately two years. This avoids ongoing dependance on MoPOEd to provide care, forcing the concept of sustainiblilty.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
MoPOEd relies on volunteer surgeons to donate time and teaching. These surgeons are able and willing to take time from their practices, but cannot pay their travel expenses. Thus a true need of the MoPOEd program is increasing fundraising efforts.
The program itself is rather unique, and thus we are happy to collaborate with others to help them achieve their goals with ideas and other support.
Created on 10/3/2011 by CIREC
The telerehabilitation project seeks to change the way of providing specialized health services and activities focused on the comprehensive rehabilitation of vulnerable populations such as survivors of landmine victims, persons in situations of physical disability, communities affected by armed conflict in the country and who are in displaced status located in remote regions of our country through the SEEDS OF HOPE program which is a program that uses the strategy of community-based rehabilitation, RBC, to respond to the needs of this population in Colombia, promoting the development of the co
Organization: Centro Integral de Rehabilitación de Colombia CIREC
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Centro Integral de Rehabilitación de Colombia CIREC
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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The telerehabilitation project seeks to change the way of providing specialized health services and activities focused on the comprehensive rehabilitation of vulnerable populations such as survivors of landmine victims, persons in situations of physical disability, communities affected by armed conflict in the country and who are in displaced status located in remote regions of our country through the SEEDS OF HOPE program which is a program that uses the strategy of community-based rehabilitation, RBC, to respond to the needs of this population in Colombia, promoting the development of the community to achieve their integration into family, social and working life.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Our initiative seeks to provide comprehensive rehabilitation services developed by CIREC’ ICT supported through our network of SEEDS OF HOPE facilitating social inclusion of vulnerable populations such as survivors of landmine victims, people in situations of physical, disabbility, communities affected by country's armed conflict and are in condition of displacement located in remote regions of our country.
SEEDS OF HOPE program has as its base the formation of regional teams, legally incorporated as nonprofit organizations, which are intended to formalize the actions to foster the empowerment of vulnerable populations and their families in the development of reintegration and the optimization of personal, social and work skills.
To implement this initiative, the project relies on the network Seeds of Hope and it is on the development of a prototype between Bogota and Tibu (north of Santander one of the cities most affected by conflict and where people can not access specialized health services and local rehabilitation activities) from this prototype will define the guidelines and requirements for developing such technological solutions within our country
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
1. Develop an economic, regulatory and ethical model to provide comprehensive rehabilitation services through telerehabilitation in the country.
2. Define the parameters and the t infrastructure echnology requirements necessary to implement this service in our organization locally and then replicate it in the 52 municipalities in Colombia where the program SEEDS OF HOPE is present.
3. Establish a methodology for the implementation activities of a remote rehabilitation services through information technology in remote regions of the country through our prototype Bogota and Tibu Norte de Santander
4. Form a group of human resources with multidisciplinary expertise such as medicine, orthopedic, physical therapy, systems engineering, electronic engineering, project management and legislation that meets regularly in order to propose strategies and and short-term goals based on this type of service in order to make the telerehabilitation project viable.
5. Document and conceptualize this type of health services to patients in remote regions that lack these through the SEEDS OF HOPE program and thus provide knowledge and development in the field of health of our country.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for more than 5 years
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
According to studies by CIREC in recent years and based on PAIMAC figures (Presidential Program for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines) in almost 20 years the number of landmine victims MAP exceeds 9000 people. Of these, 42% were civilians and 58% remaining members of the security forces, 64% of total of victims survived the crash, while the remaining 36% died in the same way about the involvement of the civilian population, it should be noted that 18% were women and 30% were minors at the time of the accident.
People living in the Colombian countryside are more often victims of this scourge and that 98% of accidents (with victims) and incidents (no casualties) caused by landmines victims occurs in rural areas and only 2% in urban areas .
Tibu is one of the municipalities where the of Seed of Hope network is and where our project started to run telerehabilitation therefore we have enclosed information of interest about the municipality.
Tibu is located in the Sub-Region of the Department of Norte de Santander at a distance of 122 kilometers by road north of the city of Cucuta and is geographically located at 8 ° 39 north latitude and 72 ° 59 Length to West of Greenwich.
It is the largest municipality has an area of 2,696 km 2, representing 12.44% of the total department.
Tibu is located at a height of 75 mts. Above sea level, with an average temperature of 32 degrees Celsius and a humidity of 77%, annual rainfall is 2071 mm, in climatic classification is identified as tropical rainforest.
The main river system that bathes the municipality is the river that forms the Catatumbo, therefore geographically conforms with other municipalities the Tibú Catatumbo department. In addition to this river, the municipality is bathed by the waters of the Rio San Miguel, Socuavo North, Chiquito, Sardinata, New President, Tibú Socuavo South and Rio de Oro
Economy:
Tibú is the most influential oil town of the department. Here operated the eastern district in its jurisdiction are the former concession areas of the Barco refinery and Tibú. Also, crosses the Cano Limon-Covenas. Because oil producer, is entitled to royalties generated by oil. In itself, the transportation tax by the passage of lines leading Hidrocurburos.
In addition, extracting coal and other non-metallic minerals.
The municipality of Tibu is considered the new palm oil producer. Their exploitation has been increasing rapidly advancing on their frontier. According to estimates, Tibú has a great potential of hectares for planting palm. Where more than 10000 hectares are planted and 5500 new acres are being planted.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
Jeannette Perry de Saravia For over 40 years, has been noted for her work to help people in situations of disability in Colombia,
Jeannette has been concerned with improving the living conditions of people with disability and for the past ten years, particularly the victims of antipersonnel mines. Today her work has made it to the municipalities most affected by armed conflict in the country through the SEEDS OF HOPE program and community development programs that empower local leaders who are going through a situation of disability and turns them in self-managers of a social transformation.
Thanks to the results obtained in all this time, Jeannette was able to bind CIREC to the National Intersectoral Commission for action against antipersonnel landmines, led by the Vice-Presidency of the Republic through the Program for Comprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines (PAICMA) and the international campaign against landmines ICBL.
CIREC is today the institution most recognized for its work to provide comprehensive rehabilitation services which means not only in the field of health, but also serve them throughout the psychosocial field.
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
The Integral community development model encompasses all dimensions to meet the needs of people with disability and victims of mines and in a real and effective way, and succeeds at making repairs beyond pure welfarism. This proposal builds future, looking for a social transformation where the citizen becomes entrepreneurial, productive and teams forming solidarity is certainly one way to achieve greater social impact at having the additional benefit of working groups therapeutic elements that enhance the resilience of the victims and contribute to social empowerment of the individual and community.
Seeds of Hope program bases its intervention strategy in a Community Based Rehabilitation that promotes community participation and the formation of working teams supportive training from people affected by armed conflict.
The program has a modular approach looking at each module to achieve sustainability and permanence of the groups organized by intervention in stages and phases with an individual, group, family, regional, national approach.
How many people have been impacted by your project?
1,001- 10,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
1,001-10,000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
CIREC develop training modules aimed at providing leadership tools to people in such situations and their families to take action in their community
Task 1
Current situation of the country to connectivity: we need to develop a preliminary study of the current situation facing the country's connectivity with the advantages and disadvantages of this.
Task 2
Analysis and definition of requirements for the provision of services: identification of tools to meet the needs and specifications for the prototype.
Task 3
Prototype development telerehabilitation
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
CIREC develop training modules aimed at providing leadership tools to people in such situations and their families to take on attitudes in your community
Task 1
Current situation of the country to connectivity: we need to develop a preliminary study of the current situation facing the country's connectivity with the advantages and disadvantages of this.
Task 2
Analysis and definition of requirements for the provision of services: identification of tools to meet the needs and specifications for the prototype.
Task 3
Telerehabilitation Prototype development
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
The activities continue to be implemented because it completed the CIREC process of strengthening local capacity in each of the regions by local authorities, private organizations and grassroots communities developing a high local capacity that will allow them to prolong the action from the management resources needed to continue these programs and technological innovation such as the telerehabiltiacion project.
This project provides training and advice to grassroots organizations and victims groups in the Seeds of Hope project management resources to achieve that will allow to maintain the action in time where communities take charge of implementing the knowledge.
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1. Connectivity. The project is based on information technologies and communication, and rely on the connection type to use (either via satellite or cellular networks) to generate a significant impact on the provision of such services.
2. The geographical position of the affected municipalities of Colombia. Our prototype was implemented in remote rural regions so Tibu was selected as a starting point, due to the hard work making the organization to provide its comprehensive rehabilitation services and health teams in such places, the large number of patients in this region and it is difficulty to move to cities to develop their rehabilitation process.
3. lack of knowledge, documentation, legal and economic frameworks to implement these solutions in our country because Colombia does not have this kind of service today, which leads us to work in a complex and unknown field.
Tell us about your partnerships
Integral Rehabilitation Center of Colombia CIREC has developed a strategic alliance with the Center for Telecommunications Research of Colombia (CINTEL) which is a private corporation, non-profit, joint participation, created in 1991 with mission to promote and encourage the development of telecommunications. Its board is chaired by the Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia with a large number of members, among which are telecommunications operators, universities, government agencies and technology providers. In order to fulfill its mission, CINTEL develops multiple activities and projects that will enable the region to the country and its approach to Information Society and Knowledge. These objectives are: to study and assimilate the emerging technological tendencies with the purpose of disseminating and recommend the suitability of its implementation, provide an open space to all actors in the ICT industry to be discussed and analyzed the economic, social, political and technological factors affecting or influencing the development of this industry, participate in the development of projects of particular interest or sectoral, and disclose the status and trends of telecommunications in the country and the world.
CINTEL operates in coordination with local policy and regulatory generators, control and promotion of technological development. Also interacts with world bodies such as ITU, World Bank, OAS, CPQD, IEEE, Eurescom, AETIC APROTEH LATAM I2BC, among others, which adds efforts for the realization of national projects and Latin America.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
$100,000‐250,000
Explain your selections
Integral Rehabilitation Center of Colombia (CIREC) and Seeds of Hope program since 1990 rebuilding the social fabric in populations that have been affected by the Colombian armed conflict, from a community-based strategy to optimize regional resources and build alliances able to generate local development, benefiting victims of internal armed conflict, especially those victims and survivors of landmines (APM) and MUSE and their families. The creation of regional teams legally constituted one of the most important aspects in the development of strategy, organization of solidarity groups promotes resilience and empowerment of victims and their families contributing to the reintegration and development of personal skills , social and labor. These teams, groups, Seeds of Hope non-profit entities, start a process of training in various areas to develop and optimize skills and group leadership to enable beneficiaries to become trainer of trainers.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
The work of Seeds of Hope is developed in coordination with social organizations, municipal mayors who are developing partnerships with organizations specialized in the execution of productive projects such as SENA, UMATAs, church officials and police, community action boards JAC , local action Boards JAL, ombudsmen, health and education secretaries, local government programs as families in action, conflict victims families and the community in general. It seeks to integrate the work of CIREC according to the Millennium Goals and the national government's priority plan. Telerehabilitation against this project will have a stronger basis of documents and activities generated by the development of the prototype from these activities and adjusting to the guidelines of the documentation generated in our prototype is defined replication based comprehensive rehabilitation service in telerehabilitation in the 50 municipalities and 12 departments of our country where the SEED of HOPE network is present thus providing specialized health services and rehabilitation activities targeting communities that are most affected by armed conflict and mine victims.
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PRIMARY
Lack of affordable care
SECONDARY
Lack of physical access to care/lack of facilities
TERTIARY
Limited access to preventative tools or resources
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
The main barriers our project addresses, selected above, are directly related to each other, our telerehabilitation initiative provides a solution to the lack of access to comprehensive rehabilitation services in our country because this is a tool for removing space/tume barriers allowing immediate access to specialized health services anywhere in the country and in real time. As a result, you can extend coverage to remote geographical areas in a timely and efficient manner while improving quality and lowering costs for both the entity providing the service to users, generating a resource platform prevention for the community.
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
TERTIARY
Leveraged technology
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
Currently we are geographically growing our network of SEEDS OF HOPE which has been a really big challenge, because in our country armed conflict is still dormant and there are many landmine victims with difficult geographic access. The creation of this network has improved the relationship in such communities, but through this initiative telerehabilitation will be offered a new solution to the provision of health services specializing in rehabilitation for people in physical disability status, thus facilitating the growth of new and innovative health services to other organizations and institutions seeking to improve the quality of life of these people taking advantage of current technology.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
NGOs/Nonprofits.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
• The project will provide reference materials to the country at the time of service in telerehabilitation national health system.
• Define the parameters and the technology infrastructure requirements needed to replicate this type of service to local and national level.
• Forming an economic, regulatory and ethical model to provide specialized health services and activities focused on the rehabilitation field under telerehabilitation serving integral framework for other organizations wishing to implement this service.
Created on 09/21/2011 by AEPSO
A nivel sistema de salud: queremos lograr que la psoriasis (en adelante Pso sea entendida en su real magnitud como enfermedad crónica para asegurar el acceso al diagnóstico, tratamiento y atención adecuados (actualmente se está trabajando en el comité especial de enfermedades no transmisibles de la OMS) ya que es una enfermedad de muy alto impacto en la vida diaria de las personas, que reduce considerablemente la autoestima de las personas que la sufren y que por sus lesiones produce temor en los demás y por lo tanto discriminación.
Organization: AEPSO (Asociación Civil para el Enfermo de Psoriasis)
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AEPSO (Asociación Civil para el Enfermo de Psoriasis)
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
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"AEPSO - Psoriasis un desafío para todos" Promoviendo el bienestar de las personas con Psoriasis y Artritis Psoriásica.
What change do you want to bring to the world?
A nivel sistema de salud: queremos lograr que la psoriasis (en adelante Pso sea entendida en su real magnitud como enfermedad crónica para asegurar el acceso al diagnóstico, tratamiento y atención adecuados (actualmente se está trabajando en el comité especial de enfermedades no transmisibles de la OMS) ya que es una enfermedad de muy alto impacto en la vida diaria de las personas, que reduce considerablemente la autoestima de las personas que la sufren y que por sus lesiones produce temor en los demás y por lo tanto discriminación.
A nivel cultural: queremos lograr una sociedad más tolerante e inclusiva, para que las personas con Pso y Artritis Psoriásica (en adelante APso) no sean discriminadas y sean aceptadas y comprendidas en sus entornos cotidianos.
What are the primary activities of your project?
Según la misión de IFPA:
IFPA Mission
To be the unifying global voice of all psoriasis associations, supporting strengthening and promoting their cause at an international level
Y los objetivos:
SECURE universal access to treatment, to raise awareness and understanding of psoriasis and to change the treatment paradigm and end discrimination
GROW the IFPA national psoriasis association membership base to encompass all representative psoriasis associations
COOPERATE and become active partners with all relevant psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis stakeholder groups including medical associations, pharmaceutical companies and other relevant organizations
INITIATE and communicate all relevant market and clinical research in psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and related diseases.
El proyecto "Psoriasis un desafío para todos" tiene 3 componentes principales que definen líneas de actividades complementarias entre sí:
- Componente Informativo:
realización de talleres informativos sobre la enfermedad, la importancia de la detección temprana de la artritis para evitar la discapacidad motriz y deformación de las articulaciones y dar a conocer los tratamientos existentes.
- Componente de Atención:
articulación de iniciativas público sanitarias junto a los servicios de Dermatología y Reumatología de los hospitales y/o centros de Salud.
- Componente de Promoción Social:
Formación y seguimiento de Referentes Locales (voluntarios) para la promoción de la educación, acceso a la información, posibilidades de asistencia social para tramitar los certificados de discapacidad,lucha por la no discriminación, actividades del día mundial.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
AEPSO es la única organización oficial sin fines de lucro de pacientes de Pso y APso de Argentina, por lo tanto todas las actividades desarrolladas no presentan antecedentes respecto a la temática.
El aspecto más innovador de "Psoriasis un desafío para todos" es la posibilidad de crear un proyecto social que articula y sostiene en forma integrada diferentes ámbitos de acción: el organizacional (AEPSO) el del sistema de salud (hospitales y centros de salud) y el comunitario (pacientes y familiares). Culturalmente, el desafío de acabar con los mitos sobre esta enfermedad y hacerla conocer y tratar con idoneidad cambiando así la calidad de vidas de miles de personas.
Para el incremento del impacto social (comunitario) y calidad del servicio, vincularemos a empresas y laboratorios destacados en políticas de RSE (responsabilidad social empresarial) para la donación de equipos de fototerapia y/o reacondicionamiento de salas de atención u otros insumos que sean necesarios.
A su vez, y con motivo de reducir los costos y el impacto de las distancias -que en Argentina son muy grandes- se propone una plataforma de trabajo virtual para seguimiento de la coordinación mediante webcasts o teleconferencias (de uso gratuito a través de la gestión de donación del software.)
De esta manera, y partiendo de una comprensión compleja de la misma problemática, proponemos una solución que involucra a diversos actores sociales en diferentes niveles de injerencia.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for less than a year
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Las personas con Pso y APso tienen que afrontar además de su enfermedad, situaciones de desconocimiento, temor ajeno, mirada hiriente, discriminación y autodiscriminación. A esta situación se agrega otra complicación: el pedido de cobertura de los tratamientos médicos y la negación de la misma, por no estar incluida la Psoriasis en el PMO (Programa Médico Obligatorio) ni contar tampoco con los derechos de las enfermedades crónicas, subsistiendo o aún en las autoridades el pensamiento de que es un problema “cosmético” de la piel, cuando todos sabemos el impacto a los ojos propios y ajenos de una piel “diferente” con lesiones.
La cronicidad de la enfermedad y el costo de los tratamientos, hace que en su mayoría, resulten onerosos con lo cual los pacientes no pueden iniciar el tratamiento ó bien no pueden sostenerlos por falta de recursos económicos, ingresando así en una situación de desprotección por parte de los Agentes del Seguro de Salud.
De acuerdo con la Superintendencia de Servicios de Salud del Ministerio de Salud de la Nación, las enfermedades crónicas deben ser cubiertas de acuerdo con la Política Nacional de Medicamentos. Esta cobertura abarca enfermedades de curso crónico y gran impacto sanitario puesto que requieren de modo permanente y/o recurrente el uso de fármacos, y actualmente no se contempla a la Pso como una patología crónica.
Por otro lado, si bien no todas las personas con psoriasis desarrollan/ pueden llegar a desarrollar APso se estima que entre un 15% y un 30% de esos pacientes sí lo harán.
Una vez declarada la APso puede tener un desarrollo gradual y/o progresivo con factores altamente discapacitantes dado que destruye las articulaciones, es por ello que es necesario propiciar la detección y tratamiento temprano para reducir su impacto en la calidad de vida de las personas que la padecen.
Otras de las problemáticas ligadas a la precariedad en el acceso a la atención de las personas con Pso y APso son las deficiencias del sistema de salud en el interior del país, dada la escasez de profesionales que conozcan profundamente dichas enfermedades y las traten, resultando una centralización de la atención en Buenos Aires.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
AEPSO nació precisamente a partir de que le fuera denegado a su fundadora una medicación que no podía pagar. Ella no podía recibir las medicaciones tradicionales por sus efectos secundarios que a la edad de 22 años le fueran prohibidas y solo le restaba una de última generación. Ella había sido una periodista muy conocida en Argentina y aun así no pudo conseguirla. Le preguntó a su medico quien defendía a los pacientes cuando no conseguían su medicación a lo que él le contestó, “nadie” hazlo tu…así comenzó AEPSO, en la habitación de su hijo, trabajando todo el día, mirando como hacían otras instituciones; aplicó todos sus conocimientos en comunicación y sus relaciones y logró que se hablara públicamente de esta enfermedad que todo el mundo oculta, a pesar de ser la enfermedad autoinmune más común. Ella se puso como meta quitarle las piedras del camino a todas las personas con ésta enfermedad, que son muchas a lo largo de la vida, para que las personas vivieran libremente. Logró que la 2da Obra social reconozca la cronicidad de la enfermedad y que las personas con psoriasis moderada a grave tengan cubiertos sus medicamentos al 100%, aún queda mucho por hacer!
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
Las acciones integrales de AEPSO han logrado a lo largo de los últimos 6 años:
- recibimos 20.107 llamados en nuestra línea gratuita nacional
- atendimos 977 personas que se presentaron en forma espontánea en nuestras oficinas
- recibimos más de 12.000 personas registradas en la web
- conseguimos cobertura en la medicación de altísimo costo para más de 200 personas
- obtuvimos 61 certificados de discapacidad
- evacuamos 4.046 consultas legales
How many people have been impacted by your project?
More than 10,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
More than 10,000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
En los próximos 6 meses esperamos desarrollar:
1)Acciones de Planificación y gestión
2)Consolidación de alianzas estratégicas
3)Estrategia de desarrollo de recursos aplicada
Task 1
Definir el plan de trabajo a corto, mediano y largo plazo
Seleccionar y capacitar a los RRHH involucrados (base voluntariado)
Task 2
Firmar acuerdos de colaboración mutua con:
SAD, SAR,ASADEPE, SOLAPSO, Ministerios de Salud Nacional y Provinciales
INADI, COFA (Confederación de Farmacias de Argentina.)
Task 3
Sumar al menos 1 sponsor adicional para la implementación del proyecto
Realizar una campaña de recaudación para la puesta en marcha del proyecto (telemarketing)
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
4)Plan de comunicación estratégica
5)Implementación y seguimiento
6)Evaluación y monitoreo
Task 1
Desarrollar un plan integral de comunicación off line y on line articulando con sectores públicos y privados para lograr un mayor alcance de la iniciativa.
Task 2
Implementar el programa según los indicadores de impacto establecidos.
Continuar con la búsqueda de recursos para la autosustentabilidad del proyecto.
Task 3
Implementar las acciones de evaluación y mejora del servicio a través de relevamiento de indicadores y encuestas de satisfacción. Retroalimentar la operatoria del proyecto para las siguientes etapas.
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
Hasta el momento hemos concentrado acciones en 5 áreas de influencia.
De esta manera al 2014 se espera abarcar gradualmente la gran mayoría del territorio nacional en articulación con los servicios médicos de atención pública y referentes locales, junto al apoyo de empresas y laboratorios.
También se espera incorporar otros ámbitos como las escuelas y los centros de salud/ centros de jubilados; así como medios de comunicación locales y provinciales para la promoción y difusión de actividades.
Al 2014 esperamos la inclusión de ambas enfermedades en el PMO (programa médico obligatorio de Argentina.
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Dentro de las barreras más comunes identificamos:
- falta de articulación / intereses políticos dispersos
- falencias de gestión
- grandes distancias
- falta de recursos
Tell us about your partnerships
Desde los inicios hemos trabajado en alianza con la SAD, SAR; también hemos desarrollado acciones con INADI y Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires; Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (IOMA; Concurso de dibujo en escuelas públicas) sin embargo no se han formalizado dichos acuerdos en convenios marco de cooperación mutua, con lo cual ahora tendríamos la oportunidad de formalizar el vínculo.
Al mismo tiempo formamos parte activa de IFPA y Latinapso (Red Latinoamericana de Asociaciones de Psoriasis) participando de los encuentros y seminarios de capacitación internacional.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
$50,001‐100,000
Explain your selections
Individuos: representa el 5% y está en crecimiento mediante acciones de telemarketing y e-mailing.
Empresas: principalmente de laboratorios afines a la temática, representan el 85% del presupuesto, aunque también recibimos aportes de otras empresas no vinculadas (5% del 85%)
Gobiernos: mediante la aplicación a subsidios de proyectos específicos, representan el 10% del presupuesto.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
- Aumento de aportes de individuos
- Incorporación de donantes corporativos tanto del ámbito de empresas como de laboratorios
- Incorporación de subsidios de cooperación internacional
- Acciones de fundraising (ramates de obras de arte, cenas etc)
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PRIMARY
Lack of affordable care
SECONDARY
Limited diagnosis/detection of diseases
TERTIARY
Restrictive cultural norms
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
1) Mejora la difusión de información sobre:
Falta de servicios accesibles 1
Diagnóstico/detección de enfermedades limitados 1
Normas culturales restrictivas 1
Incentivos para una vida saludable 1
La falta de acceso a la información específica de la salud y la educación 1
2) Mejora la articulación con los servicios de atención:
Acceso limitado a herramientas o recursos de prevención 2
Falta de seguros/opciones de financiamiento para la asistencia sanitaria 2
Cambio de conducta sanitaria 2
3) Fortalece los actuales servicios:
Falta de acceso físico a cuidados/falta de instalaciones de salud 2
Capital humano limitado (médicos, enfermeras, etc.) 3
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
TERTIARY
Grown geographic reach: Multi-country
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
- Incorporación de nuevas regiones (Córdoba, en curso)
- Incorporación de nuevas tecnologías (Webcasts a través de donación de software en curso)
- firmas de convenios de cooperación mutual (en curso con SAD, SAR y COFA en curso)
- campaña Día Mundial 2011, filmación spot famoso, con acciones urbanas y lanzamiento petitorio nacional por los derechos de las personas con PSo y APso.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
NGOs/Nonprofits, For profit companies, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
Pacientes: aprendemos día a día a mejorar nuestro servicio.
Gobierno: el apoyo a nivel público nos avala y nos da sostén institucional. Buscamos un acuerdo marco para trabajar junto con el ministerio de salud de la nacion, estamos en ello
ONGs: donando equipos usados a Org que se encargan de reacondicionarlos; formando parte de una red de organizaciones de salud; intercambiando experiencia sobre mejores prácticas con otras organizaciones de psoriasis, nos hemos enriquecido a nivel gestión.
Universidades: participando de capacitaciones gratuitas para Org. Sociales; nos han ayudado a repensar y reformular estrategias; es muy importante el espacio de intercambio que se genera con otras organizaciones de salud.
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欧米などから30年遅れているといわれている特別支援教育。日本で画一的な教育しか受けることが出来ない個性ある軽度発達障害児は個性を修正することを強制され育つ。その結果うまく適応できない軽度発達障害児や者はひきこもりになってしまったり、ニートになってしまったりとせっかくの可能性を社会で活かすことが出来ずにいる。そんな彼らを社会でスムーズに生きていくことが出来るように教育し、サポートする。
Organization: NPO法人発達障害児支援LOF教育センター
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
More than 5 years
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LOF: 個性は障害？個性があることが欠点となる教育後進国日本。
What change do you want to bring to the world?
欧米などから30年遅れているといわれている特別支援教育。日本で画一的な教育しか受けることが出来ない個性ある軽度発達障害児は個性を修正することを強制され育つ。その結果うまく適応できない軽度発達障害児や者はひきこもりになってしまったり、ニートになってしまったりとせっかくの可能性を社会で活かすことが出来ずにいる。そんな彼らを社会でスムーズに生きていくことが出来るように教育し、サポートする。
What are the primary activities of your project?
学童期における発達障害児 特に軽度発達障害児の学習支援、ソーシャルスキル習得支援、思春期のメンタルサポートなどのカウンセリングを行いながら同時に保護者の不安や悩みを軽減するためのカウンセリング、交流会、ワークショップなどの開催を長年取り組み、日本の行政の遅れた支援をなんとか私的な機関で補うことが出来ないかと活動を積み重ねてきた。その結果軽度発達障害児がどのような教育を受けて成長していくべきかを将来像を見据えながら支援を行っていくことが出来るようになった。一人でも多くの軽度発達障害児とその家族にその事を知ってもらい、成長を共に見守ってサポートしていきたい。強いては見ただけではわからないわかりづらい障害と呼ばれてしまう彼らの個性を理解し、受容してもらえるような社会を実現していく。同時に当事者が社会で自立し生きていくために必要な様々な力を習得できるような教育機関を設立することを最終目標とする。
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
日本の特別支援教育は 他諸国より大きく遅れている。日本の画一的な教育では特性を活かすことが難しい軽度発達障害児（知的に遅れのない発達障害児）に総合的で様々な教育を受ける機会を提供していくことで、日本の様々な社会問題（ニート、ひきこもり、うつ病など）を減少することが出来ると確信している。このような社会問題の陰に発達障害が隠れていることがあるからです。発達障害児や当事者への支援は少しずつ増えているように思うが、どれも短期的な取り組みで、幼児期から青年期を総合的に支援しているところがない。私たちの取り組みは乳幼児から当事者まで長期的に支援できることを目標に活動していることが大きく他のところと違っている。また、発達障害を抱えている人だけではなくその家族への支援も同時に行っている。
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
軽度発達障害児、者。あるいは軽度発達障害かもしれないと疑われるグレー層の児、者とその家族。日本で唯一行われた調査（2003年文科省）によると普通学級にいる軽度発達障害は6.3％であるといわれている。現在はその数値は増えつつあるという自治体調査もある。成長している段階で軽度発達障害が見過ごされてきて社会に出た当事者の人の中には、周りとうまく関われず精神疾患などの二次障害に陥り、専門機関に相談した結果軽度発達障害がわかったという成人も少なからずいる。発達障害児との関わりは学童期への教育に関わる中、不登校児や学習障害児の指導を行うようになり、長年の経験を通じ本当に発達障害を抱える子どもたちや家族が必要としている支援がなんであるかが明確になってきたことを踏まえ、その支援教育を行える教育機関、施設の開設が急務であると感じます。様々な支援教育ができるような宿泊できる施設設立が目標である。
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
創始者やまもとは、学童期の子どもたちへの教育支援を行う中、不登校児や学習障害児の学習支援を行うことになる。と同時に自身の子どもも学習障害、発達障害児であることに早くに気がつき、個性ある子どもを育てることの様々な苦悩を経験していく。発達障害児とその家族への教育支援を行うことをライフワークにしようと決心するまでもずっと発達障害児への関わりは途切れることなく続いていった。子どもを引き取り、育てることになった離婚をきっかけに発達障害児とその家族支援を事業として行う個人事業を行うことを決める。その活動は社会貢献事業であるけれど、一般のビジネスのような収益を伴う事業にしていきたいという日本のNPOに対する概念を変えるような活動を目指しプロジェクトを進めている。
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
やまもと一人で行ってきた発達障害という一番身近ではあるが、わかりづらい障害のついての支援活動を少しでもいろんな人に知ってもらうため、あるいはその支援活動を事業として確立させるための様々な努力を行ってきた。昨今は教育、福祉の領域だけではなく、一般企業へのアプローチ、子育て支援、また社会貢献事業を一般企業と同様に利益のでる事業実現に向けて活動を行ってきた。その結果、大阪府の社会起業家として取り上げられ、助成金、財団法人のファンドをもらえるようになった。また発達障害ということに関しても少しずつ興味を持ってもらえるようになり、いろんなところで話ができるようになってきた。また、個人での活動を昨年NPO法人化。一緒に頑張ってくれるスタッフにも恵まれた。現在は、大阪府を拠点にしつつも、関東での支援活動も本格的に稼働。社会のニーズがようやく訴えてきたことがマッチしたと実感する。今夏一流企業のプロボノの提供を受けることができた。これを機会にもっとアイデアを具体化していきたいと思う。
How many people have been impacted by your project?
101-1,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
1,001-10,000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
ファーストステップとして高校生、大学生などの社会に出る一歩手前の人たちへの新しい教育支援を具体化します。
Task 1
具体的に教育プログラムを作成。講師などの人材、場所を確保。告知スタート。
Task 2
参加者募集、集客。団体発達障害児支援フォーラムの成功（10月23日）
Task 3
教育プログラム終了後、本格的な定期的なサポートへと移行。
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
実験的な教育プログラムの結果から長期的で定期的な教育プログラムへと移行。可能であれば、ニートの人たちへの教育も。
Task 2
大学への学生に向けての新しいプログラムとして営業活動に向けて大学へ聞きとり調査。
Task 3
一般社会、企業への発達障害雇用促進のための調査、及びアプローチ。
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
高校生、大学生への教育プログラムの成功を受けて、より低年齢の子どもたちへの生きていくのに必要な教育アプローチを行っていく。また、その教育を行える宿泊型のセミナー施設設立へ向けて準備を始める。また、積極的に海外の専門機関と繋がり、情報収集を行い、海外の発達障害児への様々な教育法が体験できるように海外から講師を招く。
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日本の多くのNPO法人が抱えている経営面での課題を含め、サポートする側の人的資源をどう補っていくか？が最大のプロジェクトの課題であると考える。資金は教育を受ける対象からの授業料、学校へのプログラム提供料などで補う。企業などへは社員への人材教育、障害者雇用に関するコンサルタント業務などで利益を上げることでプロジェクトが継続して行えるようにしていく。発達障害について先駆的な取り組みをしてきた団体の強みを活かした様々な事業展開を考える。
Tell us about your partnerships
発達障害について専門的な取り組みをしている個人、団体。子どもの教育に関する取り組みを行っている個人、団体。社会貢献事業を行う個人、企業、団体。大阪府社会貢献事業部、大阪ボランティア協会、政策塾、障害者就労に積極的な取り組みを行う個人、企業。地方自治体の子育て支援。町議会議員、市議会議員。虐待防止に取り組む個人。社会貢献事業に取り組む個人、企業。大阪府委託事業ニートへの就労支援事業に取り組む個人、団体。
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
$500,001‐1 million
Explain your selections
公的な助成金は団体として社会的な信頼を得るために有効であると考えた。ある財団法人はファンドレイジンングを行う財団であったため財団に金銭的な支援をお願いした。スタッフとして無償、有償ボランティアで関わってもらっている。今夏IBMの社員の方々のプロボノの提供先に選出してもらった。
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
急激に大きな成果に結び付けるというよりは、少しずつトライアル的な取り組みをしながらその実績を踏まえ、プロジェクトを大成していきたい。まずは最初の1，2年で基盤となる教育プログラムを実践できる機関へと成長し、その後宿泊を伴った教育施設を自然体験ができる地方に設立したいと考えています。その間に支援する側として関わってくれる企業や個人へのネットワークを広げていきたい。それは発達障害という垣根を超え、様々な教育へと発展させることが出来ればと考えます。「障害は個性」その理念の下日本でも世界的には一般的なインクルージョン教育を実践出来きることを目標にしています。
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Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Lack of access to targeted health information and education
SECONDARY
Restrictive cultural norms
TERTIARY
Other (Specify Below)
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
子育てを行っている保護者への積極的な教育。一般企業への社員教育の一環として発達障害について学んでもらい社員へのメンタルサポートに活かしてもらう。一般企業の発達障害者の雇用を促進する活動を行い、教育した発達障害児を企業へと橋渡しし、就職後も企業、当事者共にサポートを継続する。
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Grown geographic reach: Multi-country
TERTIARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
青年期の軽度発達障害を抱える子どもたちに社会自立実現に向けての教育トレーニングを行い、自立へと導くことが可能となる教育プログラムの確立。一般企業とのネットワーク確立に伴い、発達障害者雇用に対してのコンサルタント業務開始。発達障害者支援の人材育成などより一層積極的に行い、経営基盤を確立する。
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
Technology providers, NGOs/Nonprofits.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
発達障害児が抱える問題を専門家の先生方に検査してもらい、原因を探ることが出来ている。また、発達障害児が抱える問題が少しでも軽減できるように具体的に取り組むことが可能になった。学童期以上の当事者が抱える問題について情報を共有し、当事者への支援にも関わらせてもらった。今後は教育プログラムを通して発達障害児、者への支援を協働で事業を行う予定である。
Created on 09/15/2011 by miraclefeet
The change we bring is to ensure that children born with clubfoot can walk, run, go to school, and live, healthy productive lives. Untreated clubfoot is one of the the primary causes of physical disability in the world, affecting 1 in 750 children. Without treatment children born with clubfoot will never walk properly and live with the pain and humiliation of a serious physical disability.
Organization: miraclefeet
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Organization Address
PO Box 9985 · Chapel Hill, NC 27515
Organization Country
United States, NC, Orange County
Country where this project is creating social impact
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Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
How long has your organization been operating?
1‐5 years
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miraclefeet: preventing unnecessary disability caused by untreated clubfoot around the world
What change do you want to bring to the world?
The change we bring is to ensure that children born with clubfoot can walk, run, go to school, and live, healthy productive lives. Untreated clubfoot is one of the the primary causes of physical disability in the world, affecting 1 in 750 children. Without treatment children born with clubfoot will never walk properly and live with the pain and humiliation of a serious physical disability.
By establishing a network of clubfoot clinics that provide free treatment using the WHO-approved Ponseti Method, miraclefeet is preventing unnecessary physical disability caused by untreated clubfoot. miraclefeet partners with local doctors and hospitals to create clubfoot clinics within public hospitals to create a long-term, sustainable solution to the issue of untreated clubfoot.
What are the primary activities of your project?
miraclefeet partners with orthopedic surgeons working in large public hospitals to increase access to proper clubfoot treatment. We work with them to set up Ponseti Treatment clubfoot clinics within their hospitals, providing organizational guidance, training and all of the supplies necessary to treat children for free. miraclefeet works with the hospital administration and with national and state policy makers to push for change in the way clubfoot is treated, so that the work miraclefeet does becomes an integrated sustainable solution to clubfoot in the long term.
miraclefeet provides a model for how to establish a highly functioning Ponseti clinic that can easily be replicated in different countries with minimal adaptation, making it possible to scale quickly and maximize reach and impact.
miraclefeet is currently working in Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Guadalajara, Mexico, Managua, Nicaragua and in Maharashtra State, India. miraclefeet plans to launch an 8 clinic national program in Mexico in November, as well as converting the Brazil and Nicaragua initiatives into national programs in 2012.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
While there are a few programs that address clubfoot, nobody else is attempting to address the issue on a global scale. Existing programs are focused on individual countries and/or tied to faith-based organizations which have several agendas. There are a number of aspects that make miraclefeet's work innovative and different:
1. Use of a national clubfoot program model. miraclefeet provides a complete roadmap or system for establishing a clubfoot clinic in a public hospital. This includes the organization, the expertise, admin and educational support and the supplies. This makes it possible to establish high quality programs in many countries.
2. Local partnerships. miraclefeet partner with local clubfoot champions, medical establishments and policy makers to ensure that clinics are integrated into the existing public health infrastructure. miraclefeet will only work once a strong group of supportive partners is formed to drive the project forward within the country.
3. Use of an on-line patient database. miraclefeet provides an online patient database into which all clinics have to enter their patient records. This allows miraclefeet to monitor the quality of care, identify problems quickly, and track outcomes in a way that nobody has ever done.
4. Development of a low-cost, high-performance brace. miraclefeet is creating a $10 brace (versus the US $350+ brace) to lower the cost of treatment and increase brace compliance rates. Bracing is an essential part of the Ponseti Method treatment.
5. Focus: Our only agenda is helping kids with clubfoot.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Our programs provide free treatment to any child born with clubfoot, but especially those who have limited resources. We partner with hospitals that provide care to low income children, primarily through large public and charitable hospitals located in large metropolitan areas. We have focused initially on urban areas, since this is where the largest referral hospitals are located and where we can reach the largest number of children.
We work with local maternity hospitals and other maternal and child initiatives, e.g.in Sao Paulo with the Mae Paulistana program, to identify babies born with clubfoot so they can be quickly referred to a clubfoot clinic for proper treatment. In many countries, doctors, nurses and midwives are unfamiliar with clubfoot so education of the health care community is important.
Since the Ponseti Method requires the parents to bring their child to the clinic for a series of casts over a 5-8 week period and to ensure the child wears a brace at night for the next 4 years, parent education is very important. Various design elements are built into the program to support this, such as the one-day clinic approach, parent education and the provision of free braces.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
miraclefeet has several founders. We were all inspired by the fact that we could completely turn lives around for $250/child by providing early, effective treatment to children born with clubfoot. Having seen what SmileTrain and others have done for cleft palate, we believed we could do something similar for children born with clubfoot (albeit with a different model due to differences in the way the two conditions are treated).
The initial impetus came from three parents who had successfully treated clubfoot children. These parents were horrified to learn that the treatment that allowed their children to live normal lives was largely unavailable to the majority of children born with clubfoot around the world. They persuaded their children’s orthopedic surgeons to create an organization to increase access to the Ponseti Method.
My connection to clubfoot came from time spent working at the University of Iowa, where I learned about the Ponseti Method and the fact that it was a cheap and effective solution to a problem I had seen first-hand in many developing countries.
We all joined forces to start miraclefeet to prevent the debilitating disability caused by untreated clubfoot and give clubfoot children the chance to live healthy productive lives.
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
In the first year of operation, miraclefeet has managed to establish 4 clubfoot clinics in Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in Guadalajara, Mexico and in Managua, Nicaragua. In addition, miraclefeet has partnered to fund a CURE program working in 4 clinics in Maharashtra State,India.Although these are all just pilot programs, they will form the foundation for national (state in the case of India)programs that will provide a network of clinics across the country.
Over 150 children have been treated in the first year. We have data and photographs detailing the successful treatment of each child, plus the anecdotal stories of how life transforming treatment has been for many.
These pilot projects have proved the concept and allowed us to raise additional funding. On the basis of this early success we have secured over $.5M for next year's operations.
How many people have been impacted by your project?
101-1,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
1,001-10,000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
The 6 month milestone, will be converting the Mexico program into a national program with the launch of 5 additional clinics, national and regional training, and broad educational campaigns.
Task 1
Launch clinics in 5 additional public hospitals spread throughout Mexico. These will provide free Ponseti treatment to 6 regions in Mexico as the start of a national network blanketing the country.
Task 2
Deliver a national training, plus 3 regional trainings at hospital sites. This will ensure at least three doctors from each partenr hospital are fully trained in the Ponseti Method.
Task 3
Start to inform the public and the healthcare community that clubfoot is treatable for free at the 6 initial miraclefeet clinics.
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Our 12 month milestone, will be raising the funds and putting together the consortium of partners to launch additional national programs in Brazil, Nicaragua and Ecuador for launch by the end of 2012.
Task 1
Finalize partners in Brazil. Hopefully, secure a contract with the Hospital Samaritano Foundation to fund and manage the Brazil program.
Task 2
Raise funding to launch an Ecuador national program. Get final sign off on the proposal that is in front of a group of Ecuadorian partners so detailed operational planning can begin.
Task 3
Start the process of determining how the national model can be adapted to a country with very few orthopedic doctors and functioning hospitals by leveraging the group of physical therapists.
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
We hope to be in 33 countries (or states in the case of very large countries like India and China) treating over 6,000 children a year. This will require us to scale our staff and to build our fundraising capability to enable us to raise up to $4.5M a year. All of these programs will be launched as national programs and will involve extensive local partnerships so that the programs become integrated into the public health infrastructure. By year three, miraclefeet should be seeing some policy change and some indications of local ownership of the programs indicating that our goal of creating sustainbale,long term solutions is playing out.
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1. Fundraising. Our biggest barrier to success is our ability to raise funding. We have just been given a pledge that will cover our administrative and fundraising costs for the next three years, including hiring a Director of Development. We are developing a comprehensive fundraising strategy to attract a broad base of small donors, inspired to give the gift of walking for a $250 donation, as well as continuing to focus on high net worth individuals and foundations.
2. Resistance to change. Orthopedic surgeons like doing surgery. Even when they are given strong evidence that a non-surgical technique provides a better outcome, there can be resistance. In addition, there are often institutional and structural impediments such as higher reimbursements for surgery and the prestige that doing surgery bestows on doctors. miraclefeet works with a local medical director, usually someone who has already become a Ponseti disciple, and partners with local medical establishments, such as the national orthopedic societies or the government agencies that oversee prevention of disability. These partners act as influencers and can persuade local colleagues and institutions to change.
Tell us about your partnerships
miraclefeet’s model depends on partnerships at every level.
Each national program is created from national, state and local partnerships with doctors, public and charitable hospitals, medical associations, Ministries of Health, NGOs, and parent’s groups. miraclefeet pulls together a consortium of partners based on local interest and conditions, from the Mexican Society of Pediatric Orthopedics and Office of the Vice President of Ecuador, to the local Rotary club in Nicaragua. In all locations miraclefeet depends on partnerships with dedicated local doctors and hospitals. It is through these multiple partnerships that a network of clubfoot clinics is created to form a national clubfoot programs.
miraclefeet also partners with other NGOs to collaborate and integrate clubfoot initiatives. Ponseti International Association (PIA) provides training for miraclefeet’s programs to ensure we are delivering the latest and highest quality medical expertise to our clinics. miraclefeet works with CURE International in India, and is in discussions to develop joint programs with STEPS in South Africa and HRDC Hospital in Nepal.
miraclefeet is partnering with PIA, CURE and University of Iowa’s Biomedical informatics department to develop a global clubfoot patient database, and with North Designs and Objet who are providing pro-bono design services to create low-cost clubfoot brace.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
$250,001‐500,000
Explain your selections
Initial funds came from board members and personal friends and family. These early donations allowed miraclefeet to launch pilot programs in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After the initial proof of concept, miraclefeet was able to attract funding from high net worth individuals, especially those affected by clubfoot, and from small family foundations who were interested investing in a new, focused organization to target a problem that is largely unaddressed. Since then miraclefeet has been able to attract some small corporate donations, Rotary club funding and additional funding from a major foundation, The Oak Foundation, who has a strong interest in prevention of childhood disability.
Recently, miraclefeet has been pledged a very significant anonymous donation that will allow the organization to cover administrative and fundraising costs for the next 3 years. miraclefeet has secured funding from a corporate/family foundation for the Mexico national program.
Hospital Samaritano Foundation in Brazil is considering fully funding the Brazil National program. In addition, the Draper Richards Foundation is currently considering miraclefeet as a potential Draper Richards fellow which would provide additional funding over the next 3 years.
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
While miraclefeet expects to rely on high net worth individuals and family foundations in the short term, it also believes that can replicate SmileTrain’s success in generating funds from small donors who want to change a child’s life. miraclefeet is focusing on developing a multi-channel approach that leverages new fundraising tools and star-power to engage with people, while also depending upon the more traditional direct mail and event approaches to create a broad donor base of individuals. We believe we can generate interest from a broad spectrum of people from families affected by clubfoot in the US, to youth soccer teams (Mia Hamm and Steve Gerrard, captain of England soccer, both born with clubfoot), and young people eager to help other kids. This can now be done much more cost effectively by leveraging the internet and social media. This will probably start to generate significant funding in the 1-2 year time frame.
miraclefeet is also actively courting very large funding sources such as USAID and the Gates Foundation, with the expectation that the concept of tackling a childhood health issue on a global scale will appeal once miraclefeet developed a stronger track record in the 3 year time frame.
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PRIMARY
Lack of affordable care
SECONDARY
Limited human capital (trained physicians, nurses, etc.)
TERTIARY
Limited diagnosis/detection of diseases
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
Currently there are very few clubfoot treatment centers available worldwide. Historically, clubfoot was treated with expensive surgery which produces very poor outcomes. miraclefeet is changing this by establishing and supporting free clinics, in major public hospitals, with trained Ponseti teams providing the proper treatment needed to address clubfoot. This makes treatment affordable and accessible, and increases the number of trained Ponseti practitioners. In parallel, miraclefeet works to communicate that clubfoot is treatable to health workers (maternity/pediatric nurses/doctors, midwives, rural health workers) so they can identify and refer babies born with the condition to a Ponseti clinic.
How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Grown geographic reach: Multi-country
TERTIARY
Influenced other organizations and institutions through the spread of best practices
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
miraclefeet is adding 8-12 clinics in the four countries it is already in by 2012 and plans to add at least two additional countries next year. In addition, miraclefeet will continue to work with other local NGOs such as CURE and STEPS SA to extend the miraclefeet country model to their programs. Through these activities miraclefeet expects to treat over 1,000 children in 2012, up from 200 in 2011.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
NGOs/Nonprofits, Academia/universities.
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
miraclefeet has been working with the University of Iowa, where the Ponseti Method was developed, to create a global clubfoot database which will be available to any organization treating clubfoot. This has allowed to develop a very secure patient database that enables us to monitor quality of care and to measure our success. Our investment and collaboration will be made available to anyone who wants to use it, so will have broad impact.
miraclefeet is also working with Ponseti International, a University of Iowa-based NGO,to deliver Ponseti -training to new clinics. This collaboration ensures that we are delivering high quality and up-to-date training on clubfoot treatment, endorsed by the world's clubfoot medical leaders.
Created on 09/14/2011 by F123
Help 180 million blind persons the only way we can - F123 - A solution
that scales!
Organization: F123 Consulting
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How long has your organization been operating?
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F123 Opens Educational and Employment Opportunities to the Blind in Developing Countries
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Growth (your pilot is up and running, and starting to expand)
How long have you been in operation?
Operating for 1‐5 years
THE NEED: Describe the need for your solution and the size/dynamic of the community (ies) you will engage
While information technology is essential for the educational and workplace competitiveness of children and youth who are blind or have low vision, traditional screen reading and magnification software cost the equivalent of multiple computers. Generally the small minority of persons with disabilities that has access to such technologies in developing countries, do so through illegal copies while governments, foundations, and NGOs are dramatically limited in the assistance they
can offer due to the extremely high prices of legal licenses. This problem affects an estimated 144 million blind and visually impaired persons in developing countries.
Even the small minority of blind persons who manage to have access to expensive software through a local organization, must eventually face the price barrier when seeking an educational, internship, or employment opportunity. The few organizations that acquire costly technology thanks to donations price their own students out of the labor market by making them dependent on software that most companies are not able to purchase. The F123 System addresses this problem with software that is 50 times more affordable than the alternative.
THE SOLUTION: Please explain what your solution offers and how it is innovative. How will you put your solution into the hands of users or beneficiaries? Be specific!
F123 is not merely less expensive software, it is a better overall system for those serving persons with disabilities. We attract the interest of governments, foundations, and NGOs, by offering a complete package including not just the software but also training materials. We combine the use and support of open source software and training materials (licensed under Creative Commons), with world-class project management to provide institutions with the option of greatly increasing the number of persons with disabilities they can serve.
The vast majority of F123 users have access to the technology and training through NGOs, foundations, and government agencies, but distribution also happens via web downloads and by mail in case of individual purchases. Software and documentation updates are made via the Internet and the team is developing a distance learning service to enhance our support of partner organizations.
Our use and support of open source software can maximize the dissemination and with it, the positive social impact of an initiative such as F123, yet it does not threaten our sustainability. The survival of an initiative such as F123 does not depend exclusively on the sale of software. Our reputation and that of our partners for quality and integrity, in addition to our combined expertise, enable us to easily partner with key organizations and with that, we have the institutional
capacity to meet demands for complementary services from governments, foundations, and NGOs interested in making education and employment accessible to persons with disabilities.
THE MODEL: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference through use of information technology and media
In the vast majority of cases, persons with disabilities get jobs after having had a chance to show their talent and competitiveness in what the employer considers a low-risk investment such as an internship. However, even the most open-minded employer will not offer an internship once he/she learns that to do so, there has to be an investment of more than US$1000 to purchase the typical software for the blind. In many developing countries such an investment would be many times the
potential salary of the intern.
The F123 Software is affordable enough so that it is no longer just those highly qualified individuals working in multinationals that can hope to have a job. Any small company with a positive attitude can give a blind person a chance. For that matter, any blind person with an idea and the right personality, can start his or her own small business without facing the enormous additional challenge of spending the equivalent of 2 or 3 computers on just a screen reading software. Just as importantly, F123 is not a screen reader that requires the user to spend hundreds on
spreadsheet and other essential business software since it includes a complete suite of applications.
Even owning a computer becomes optional as F123 can be installed and can retain all user files and settings on a USB pendrive. In addition to the added security of not having to carry a laptop in public transportation, this option enables those without their own computer to preserve their entire digital environment in portable media and use computers in libraries and Internet Cafes.
THE MARKETPLACE: Who are your peers and competitors? What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Makers of Jaws and WindowEyes do not compete directly with us since their products cost between 10 and 50 times the cost of F123. NVDA can be considered a closer competitor, but it requires both Windows and Microsoft Office, which can dramatically increase the final cost for the end-user, employer, supporting organization, or government agency.
Applications such as DosVox cannot be considered a direct competitor of F123 as these are usually developed by well intentioned but very small teams. Due to their limited resources, they can never hope to include F123 capabilities such as secure web browsing or spreadsheet applications.
In sum, we do not fear competition from Jaws and others such as WindowEyes because their dependency on government purchases from wealthy economies have made them complacent and uncompetitive, and small initiatives such as DosVox will never reach the degree of sophistication we are able to access by using open source software. Realistically, NVDA is the only potential competitor for us. However, they will only become a threat if they invest in LibreOffice compatibility and are able to
match our overall user experience.
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FOUNDING STORY: We want to hear about your “Aha!” moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution’s potential to change the world.
For many years I had been interested in causing positive change in a big way, but despite my work at a traditional NGO, at the UN, and at the philanthropy office of a large bank, I never felt like my efforts were resulting in substantial social impact. Then in 2006, as I was continuing research in my on-going obsession with the high cost of assistive technologies for the blind, I made a comparison between the
price of a entry-level computer in 1997 and its equivalent in 2006. I also compared the cost of the most widely known screen reader in 1997 and 2006. Even when correcting for inflation and other potential distortions, I realized that while the cost of a basic computer had dropped more than 80%, the cost of screen reading software for the blind had gone up more than 20%!
An essential technology that had been available to only a small minority of the world's blind in 1997, was available to even fewer persons in 2006. It was then that I realized that there was no need for me to invest time and effort in the hardware side of the equation and that I had to find a better solution for the software side of this huge challenge. F123, the idea--if not the company--was then born.
Specify both the depth and scale of your solution’s social impact to date
It is still early to properly measure the social impact of F123. The system has been distributed to over 375 organizations, foundations, and government agencies and probably more than 500 individuals in over 20 countries around the world. However, it has only been available for download and sale for a little over a year and most organizations are still testing the system. We have realized that many entities lack the training material to truly take advantage of F123 and start offering classes to those they serve. For this reason we have started preparing a more thorough support system, not just including manuals and audio lessons in every language in which F123 is available, but also configuring an online distance learning system to support NGO
instructors in their courses.
We already have a major foundation planning a pilot in a public school in Lima, Peru, a company running a pilot in a public school in Montevideo, Uruguay, the city of São Paulo running tests for potential use of F123 in its vast network of more than 350 Internet Cafes and over 50 public libraries, and a major international organization using more than 100 licenses of F123 in rehabilitation centers in Zambia.
What is your projected impact within the next 1-5 years? Is your idea replicable? If so, how?
F123 is already being replicated. While we focus on the technology and training material, our partners focus on raising awareness of F123, hands-on training and technical support, as well as selling licenses. We already have individuals and organizations interested in becoming resellers in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mali, Mexico, Namibia, Peru, and Uruguay. As the selection process requires some time, we have only selected and started working with partners in Brazil, Peru, and Uruguay so far. As F123 is already available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, replication is easiest in the Americas and a few countries in Africa. We hope to soon be able to offer a French version in order to dramatically expand our social impact in Africa.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and mark growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Launch updated F123 software including French version.
Task 1
Find support for development of French version of F123 while renewing commitment of partners for 2012.
Task 2
Launch updated version of F123 integrating magnification improvements.
Task 3
Start work on the Portuguese version of the distance learning platform, ready structure for other languages.
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Launch online distance learning service
Task 1
Secure funding for content development for online distance learning platform and complete this work in three languages.
Task 2
Support and eventually succeed in sales processes already in progress with various government agencies in three countries.
Task 3
Launch distance learning service in parallel with courses being offered at around 8 NGOs or government agencies in 3 countries.
How many people have been impacted by your project?
101 - 1,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
More than 10,000
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Hybrid model
What barriers have hindered the success of your project to date? How do you plan to overcome these and other challenges as you grow your solution?
F123 will follow a hybrid model where we sell F123 Software and training to individuals and companies that are attracted to our software and competitive pricing while also joining forces with NGOs, governments, and foundations to serve the millions of blind and visually impaired persons that cannot afford even our prices.
Our sustainability strategy is to combine income from the sale of software licenses and online courses, as well as software customization and other support sold as consulting services. We expect consulting revenue to represent 50% or less in 2014 when we expect to reach between 30 and 50 thousand end-users. In most cases the plan is to follow a subscription model where partial software updates are free but completely new versions require subscription.
How do you see the information-technology and media sectors shifting over the next decade? How will your solution adapt to and/or drive that changing environment?
There will be continued interest in mobile platforms such as cell phones and tablets, yet, as fashionable as it is to say that this is the future, we do not believe any of that technology will replace laptops/PCs among the blind in developing countries. Serious work will continue to require a decent keyboard and the flexibility of a desktop environment. Conventional laptops are likely to retain their central role at schools and offices even while becoming less "cool" and
secondary in day-to-day conversations and media coverage.
Failure is not always an option. If your solution fails to gain traction in the next two years, what other applications of the idea could you explore?
There are a number of possible specialized applications ranging from accessible call centers to accessible mathematics teaching that can generate new revenue sources. The UN Convention on the Rights of persons with Disabilities places a number of responsibilities on governments which cannot realistically be achieved with traditional US$1000/person solutions, which are the only solutions most NGOs and consultants know about. F123 opens a vast horizon of opportunities for these governments as well as for us. The true challenge is prioritizing.
Expand on your selections, explaining how you will sustain funding
Our income is mostly foundation-based with a small amount coming from sales of licenses. As we move forward the proportion will change to include much higher income from licenses relative to consulting and project management revenues. With regard to license sales, we expect most of these to be made to governments at every level (local to federal), and to international institutions, with only about 30% being sold to small companies. our strategic objective will be to maximize
diversification of revenues by continuing our international diversification and also depending less and less on large contracts. It should be said that in Africa the distribution will probably be different with greater emphasis on foundation and international organization support and less government participation.
Tell us about your partnerships
Our partners are usually organizations that are physically present where the end-user and NGO or government client is located. This is a necessity as it is not possible to keep our costs down if we try to build a vast network of sales and support staff around the world. Our partners are generally already selling other technology to governments so that F123 complements their work and its low profit margin does not bother them, as being able to offer a more complete package of solutions enhances their value to their customer.
What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section?
We need to expand our software development team as we have recently lost one team member to another firm. Besides this challenge we only have the need for additional funding in order to attract a French-speaking expert to develop content for us. We are already well staffed for English, Portuguese, and Spanish-based work. We also need guidance regarding a more effective use of volunteers.
Changemakers is a collaborative and supportive space. Please specify any community resources you would need to grow and sustain your initiative. Select all that apply
Investment, Human resources or talent, Marketing or media, Collaboration or networking, Pro-bono help (legal, financial, etc.), Mentorship.
Specify any resources you might offer to support other initiatives. Select all that apply
Investment, Research or information, Collaboration or networking, Pro-bono help (legal, financial, etc.), Innovation or ideas, Mentorship.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren’t specified within the list
Our clients are very dispersed geographically and there is no way to efficiently and effectively reach such a large and descentarlized
population without the help of volunteers. We will need assistance in
designing and implementing a volunteer recruitment and management
strategy as this is an area were we have not evolved as expected and as
needed.
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Help 180 million blind persons the only way we can - F123 - A solution
that scales!
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Today there are countless families with disabled children that are in desperate need of support. At the same time, there is a myriad of young people seeking experience and employment during a tough economic climate. Cool2Care trains a new generation of open-minded young people as ‘personal assistants’ and carefully matches them to care for disabled youth.
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Cool2Care - Tackling Disability by Connecting Young Carers with Families in Need
What change do you want to bring to the world?
Today there are countless families with disabled children that are in desperate need of support. At the same time, there is a myriad of young people seeking experience and employment during a tough economic climate. Cool2Care trains a new generation of open-minded young people as ‘personal assistants’ and carefully matches them to care for disabled youth. Through its personalized introductory service, Cool2Care promotes long-term support for families and their disabled children, quality training and experience for young job seekers, and gives families control over who is supporting them and their disabled child. This system offers cost savings of 20-40 % and attracts young people to the sector, providing training for a new pool of individual to support health care delivery in the future.
What are the primary activities of your project?
During 2010-14 we aim to support 5,000 young disabled people & their families by connecting them with young PA's. To do so we will recruit and train 10,000 potential PA's. We take a blended learning approach to training so interested people can access quality training via face to face and online instruction via our innovative and interactive webinars, improving access to training for both rural and urban areas. This will lead to 5,000 young people participating in society & enjoying friendship; 4,000 families to experience lower physical/mental stress or improved health; 500 parents being able to return to work or gain new employment; 250 families to avoid breakdown; 5,000 new jobs created for PA's.
What is innovative about your initiative? How is it a new contribution to the field?
Traditionally, if a family with a disabled child qualifies for support from the local authority then how that support looks is largely out of the family's control. They are allotted a set amount of support hours per week and the council provides them with a carer on set days for a set amount of hours per week. The individual who helps the family might be a different person each week, acting as a road block to establishing a positive long term relationship between the family and carer.
What we do is train young people who have expressed an interest in becoming PA's for young disabled people, then we connect them with like-minded families who are seeking support. We help potential PA's complete a profile to act as a CV while helping families create a profile of their support needs. Profiles are reviewed so we can match individuals and families based on both experience and interests, bringing like-minded people together. The family is given the opportunity to interview potential candidates and once an appropriate connection is made the family becomes the employer of their PA. This system of personalisation promotes long-term support for families, consistant support for young disabled people, quality training & experience for young job seekers, and importantly gives families control over who is supporting them and their child and the terms of support. This system can offer cost savings of 20-40% when compared to traditional state support and attracts young people to the sector, providing training for a new pool of individuals to support health in the future.
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
Tell us about the community that you engage? eg. economic conditions, political structures, norms and values, demographic trends, history, and experience with engagement efforts.
Current Political Climate: Public sector funding in the UK has been cut by 25% in line with the coalition goverment's vision of the Big Society. The prime minister has said public services have been the backbone of the country but that results were often not good enough. This year the government unveiled its Public Services White Paper with key elements: outsource local health services to companies, charities or community groups; give people the 'right to choose' services; and allow providers to make profits by getting people off benefits and into work.
Disability Snapshot: in the UK there are 770,000 disabled kids under 16 (many more young disabled adults), 80% of families with disabled children experience high levels of stress, 60% live in or at the margins of society, 34% live in households where there is no adult in paid work, and there is a 33% increase in the divorce rate between parents with a disabled child.
Staff: We uniquely understand the needs of disabled children with 25% of our workforce being made up of parents with disabled children and young people who frequently contribute to the strategy and planning within the organisation. Our staff and trainers are highly experienced in providing structured vocational training to extremely marginalised young people and finding them employment working as PA’s for disabled children and young people.
Employability/Training: Historically the care sector has been predominantly staffed by females aged 35 and up with a background in nursing. The majority of PA's we train are between the ages of 18-25 and many are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) when they are recruited for our training programme.
Families: In terms of diversity, just over half of the families we support are white, with the rest consisting of Black, Asian or Ethnic Minority (BAME) or mixed backgrounds.
Engagement: By consulting with young disabled people and their families we have learned that there is a high level of need for young PA's, as many young disabled people prefer to be supported by someone from their own age group. We have also found a challenge in fullfilling requests for young male PA's due to their small presence in the sector. We have had success recruiting young people and inclusing young males during our pilot programmes and we intend to focus our recruitment efforts further to build upon this success. We have successfully launched pilots across the UK and have found the uptake and support for our services to be extremely encouraging in terms of our future growth.
Share the story of the founder and what inspired the founder to start this project
The story of Cool2Care starts with a boy named Shaun, born in Japan in the spring of 1998. Within a few months it became clear that he had physical & learning disabilities, with his sight, coordination, balance, muscle strength & learning all affected. His mum and dad worked for several years to get a diagnosis and learned the hard way that this would affect the whole family for the rest of their lives. Stress took its toll, and Shaun's parents - Phil & Keiko - realised they needed help if they were to be able to keep their family going. They searched for 2 years to find someone to help look after Shaun and their second son Adam. Finally they found someone they liked and trusted - and she is still helping the family to this day.
Following this long struggle Phil became determined to help other families get the support they needed. He decided to take an assignment away from his job with IBM, and founded Cool2Care in late 2007. Phil believes that we can change lives by listening to families. He listened to his family and many others and was inspired to find a solution.
He worked for IBM for 20 years in various international roles and spent four years based in Tokyo. In addition he is a trustee of the UK based charity ‘Contact a Family’, that provides support & information to families with disabled children. He has a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University and an Executive MBA from London Business School. He has also recently become and Fellow of Ashoka and it was through this connection that we became aware of this competition.
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Please describe how your project has been successful and how that success is measured
Across the whole of Cool2Care during 2010, we trained 678 non-disabled young people to become PA’s and supported 357 disabled children and their families to find the support they needed.
We have grown as an organisation and now employ 47 people throughout Cool2Care; 9 of which are full time and the rest who are part time. Each member of staff works flexible hours from home to suit the needs of the business and the requirements of their families, with 25% of our staff being parents of a disabled child or young person. Working remotely also keeps overhead costs to a minimum.
We apply a Social Return on Investment methodology in order to measure our successes and impact. Our initial SROI work has shown that regular flexible 1-1 support to the family and young person gives benefit to the whole family, reducing physical and mental stress for the parents, improving family cohesion, lowering health costs and improving quality of life for the disabled young person. Cool2Care’s SROI plan won the “Best Social Impact” award in the Global Social Venture Competition in 2007.
We believe that one of the major challenges families face when seeking support is that they are not given due choice or control about how that care looks. In addition, the expense associated with sourcing support causes further limitations to access. Family support is deeply personal and our business model allows for personalisation of support and profitability through blended revenue streams to ensure sustainability. As a community interest company all profits we realize are reinvested into the company or community (in 2010 we turned a profit of £52k).
Young people seeking employment also come up against challenges when seeking training and experience. We offer a quality training programme free of charge to people interested in becoming PA's. We support them further by helping develop their profile and working to 'match' them with a family in need, leading to a mutually beneficial employee/employer relationship. We have received positive feedback from PA's as well as families we have supported and we consult young disabled people to share their experiences with disability and input into how we can improve our support services.
“We are very pleased with the service Cool 2 Care have provided our family with. Advertising, interviewing and initial training are added pressures that we don't have to deal with because of your professional and efficient service package. We will continue to use Cool 2 Care in the future. “ Mother of a 12 year old boy with Fragile X Syndrome
How many people have been impacted by your project?
1,001- 10,000
How many people could be impacted by your project in the next three years?
1,001-10,000
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
Achieve our 2011 target of supporting 500 families & young people
Task 1
Build deeper relationships with Social Care teams in Local Authorities
Task 2
Improve our local marketing profile via family support groups, special schools and the boosting access via the internet to our website
Task 3
Establish links with local GP consortia, as a new & emerging source of referrals
Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Build a full business plan for our next phase of growth during 2012-16.
Task 1
Research the opportunity in the Personalisation of Health in Social Care for disabled children & young people
Task 2
Transform Cool2Care’s business model to a consumer-led personalized model, less reliant on Local Authority contracts
Task 3
Secure £100k of equity investment into the business, aiming for High Net Worth Individuals and other Social Investors
How will your project evolve over the next three years?
We will increase our capacity and scope to reach families across the UK. We have made connections with potential partners in Wales and are currently developing a pilot scheme to launch throughout the country. By improving our ITC and building our brand awareness we aim to be able to support any family that should contact us regardless of location, including those in rural areas. We are exploring ways we can increase our service offering to include support for transition from children to adult services, short breaks and special education needs. We will also evolve by further developing our Social Return on Investment Model so that we can accurately measure our impact to support our efforts to gain further social investment.
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The primary barrier we are facing is that public sector funding has been cut by 25%, resulting in more fierce competition to secure contracts from local authorities. We plan to overcome this barrier by presenting cost efficient service plans to local authorites. Our competitors are diverse, but only cover 10% of our overall target market, so there is great opportunity to reach many more families and young people not yet aware of Cool2Care.
We are well placed to fulfill the Personalisation agenda, providing quality support service and cost savings simultaneouly. We are able to this by having a blended approach to our revenue streams which consist of local authority contracts, placement fees, and social investment made up of grants, loans, and equity.
The other key barrier is that many local authorities do not promote their Direct Payment scheme, DP’s are made by local councils to people receiving social care services, instead of the council providing the service directly. Research shows that two of the main factors hindering Direct Payments is the lack of people available to work as personal assistants, as well as confusion around managing Direct Payments among service users and carers. Our expansion plan will allow us to: adapt our Business model to lower Public Sector spending, new government reforms & the “Big Society”; double our revenues via diversified income streams; and increase the number of children & young adults supported to 2,000/year.
We have been working closely with social workers and commissioners to understand and promote Direct Payments as well as our services. As a new organisation we have an additional challenge of relatively low brand recognition, but building relationships with the aforementioned will help us to build our presence and customer base.
Tell us about your partnerships
We partner with Social Investors Big Invest, Venturesome and CAN who are investing £500k as a consortia into Cool2Care through a mix of grants and loans. Various trusts, foundations and the Big Lottery support us financially through grants. Ashoka supports our Founder & CEO as a Fellow, giving access to the extensive Ashoka Support Network of accomplished Social Entrepreneurs from all over the world. IBM provided corporate support during the first 4 years of Cool2Care during 2070-11. We are now actively seeking a second-generation corporate sponsor.
Current annual budget of project, in US dollars
More than $1 million
Explain your selections
We recieve support from Individuals via social investment grants and loans; from Foundations via applications to grant making bodies; from Businesses through corporate support to help fullfill corporate social responsibility and/or customer charters, this includes awards applications, fundraising on behalf of Cool2Care and brand promotion; from Regional Governments via going to tender for support contracts; from National Goverment via grant applications through agencies such as the Department of Health; and from Customers through a one-time placement fee of £200 paid by families after a suitable PA has been matched for them (this £200 may come from families DP payments issued by their local authority).
How do you plan to strengthen your project in the next three years?
We have a regional growth plan to expand our scope and services. We are currently exploring what we can offer in terms of: DP Admin, Adult Service Support, Special Educaton Needs, and Short Breaks support. We have analysed the opportunities for each and are currently working on strategy plans. We would like to do a feasability study to aid this planning and ensure it is robust and comprehensive.
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Please select up to three in order of relevancy to your project.
PRIMARY
Limited human capital (trained physicians, nurses, etc.)
SECONDARY
Restrictive cultural norms
TERTIARY
Other (Specify Below)
Please describe how your innovation specifically tackles the barriers listed above.
1 - A key barriers families face when seeking support for their disabled child is difficulties with the availablity of people to work as personal assistants. We directly address this barrier with our core service of recruiting & training people to become PA's. By targeting young people to get training we are supplying the sector with a workforce seeking longterm employment.
2 - Direct Payment Schemes have been around since 1997, however most Local authorities have not promoted them due to a lack of understanding & lack of support agencies to make DP's beneficial. We promote & explain DP Scheme to local authorties & have seen the uptake increase; we're also developing plans to expand our support to include DP Admin.
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How are you growing the impact of your organization or initiative?
Please select up to three potential pathways in order of relevancy to you.
PRIMARY
Grown geographic reach: Within host country
SECONDARY
Enhanced existing impact through addition of complementary services
TERTIARY
Leveraged technology
Please describe which of your growth activities are current or planned for the immediate future.
1 - We recently launched our regional growth plan & now operate across the UK via 6 regional heads. Within each region 'offices' are staffed by 2-4 people to provide support as agreed by local contracts & to build brand awareness. We are also looking to reach new markets by extending our coverage into new local authorities making our sevices available to up to 1.5 million families, children and adults.
2 - We are currently exploring other services we can offer: Direct Payment Admin, Adult Service Support, Special Educaton Needs, and Short Breaks support.
3 - We have increased our IT capability to now offer training via blended learning, which combines face to face and online instruction. We are now developing and costing a strategy for complete e-learning modules.
Do you collaborate with any of the following: (Check all that apply)
If yes, how have these collaborations helped your innovation to succeed?
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Arrange development pathways for impaired people on individual basis in order to be integrated with the community where they live. Personal plans will be defined to increase their autonomy and improve own self-esteem.
Activities are expected as educational field, sport and free time area across their environment.
Not only disabled persons, but also everybody should be involved in the project in order to encourage sharing of values and opportunity to mind the gap usually present due to disability.
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