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home tutoring for frail elderly

The Foundation has been providing services for disabled and frail elderly people for more than 100 years. All throw this time it has applied a constant innovation to the mode of service delivery according to social changes and the emerging needs. This new home tutoring service aims at improving the quality of life of elderly people and it enables this elderly to live longer with their family.

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pregliasco

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fondazione sacra famiglia onlus

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Italy, MI, Cesano Boscone

Organization's Country of Operation

Italy, MI, Cesano Boscone

Type of Organization

Non‐profit/NGO

Year of launch of the organization

1896

Years in Operation

5 年超

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

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.

The project was created after careful consideration on the day-to-day activities carried out by the Foundation: many families contact us after having been through a difficult time and search for appropriate services in favor of their frail elderly relatives that make it possible to provide proper home care.

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home tutoring for frail elderly

Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?

The project aims at promoting the organization of services designed to support home care for frail people and intends to do it by connecting and integrating the existing services. The project has three main objectives: 1face emerging/latent care needs which are not adequately met within the Supply Welfare Network. 2. Implement the role of the Case Manager in charge of coordinating the care plane of each patient; 3. Experience a new model for a sustainable service which aims at putting off institutionalization or long-term hospitalisation care .

Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?

In our area this care model has never been implemented before. Families have to conduct careful search on the scope of finding services which are presumed to be similar and these attempts often result in a waste of time.
The Case Manager model is innovative in the field of the elderly people care. The Case Manager can delay loss of independence in older people by making a major contribution to find housing arrangements tailored to individual needs and provide proper health and social home care. As a competent professional, the Case Manager is an expert in the multidimensional assessment who has expertise in the specific interdisciplinary he built up in designing, developing and managing individualized care pathways within the service network for elderly people.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

The Foundation has been offering for many years now a wide range of services for both the disabled and the elderly people. We therefore have a good experience in dealing with frail people and their families thanks to a brain trust made up of different specialists. The Foundation manages home nursing services in the local area and therefore knows the conditions of the elderly people who live alone and the household with elderly chronic relatives. Our staff have good experience in managing home care services and this will prove to be very useful to organize integrated home services for the elderly people.

How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?

By admitting a wide range of elderly people for a short period after hospital stay the Foundation has proved herself to be used to meet their needs which often clash with an unassisted home return. The Foundation is optimizing the provision of new specific services designed to support elderly people such as the adapted physical activity, osteoporosis clinic, etc.

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The systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)

Realign the incentives in the public healthcare system in mature markets, or

Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]

Chronic care

Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]

Long-term care.

Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?

In Italy 20-25% of hospitalizations for acute (equivalent as expenditure in euro to 1% of the nation GDP) relates to elderly chronic patients that is inappropriate hospital admissions. As a result, no unique information point which describes all the existing services couldn’t be found. Families related with an elderly component need to know all the alternative solutions. If ill-informed they have to contact a number of structures offering a similar organization of services. The Case Manager coordinates various professionals who can offer home assistance when it appears necessary.

Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]

Idea (poised to launch)

Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]

Patient-centered design, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New/redefined roles for healthcare service provision, New approaches to distribution of health products and services.

If other, specify here:

Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]

New skills, Consultation.

If other, specify here:

Please describe your solution in more detail

We try to offer support in the decision making process to all those families who contact the Foundation by offering an additional home care service for frail elderly people. Health care at low load to be achieved with no more than 8 accesses/month (nurse, occupational therapist and professional educator)
Patient transportation in the health care facilities for execution of specialist services / rehabilitation / assistance can not be executed at home
Tele-Aid for activation of requests for assistance
Counceling services to the patient's family.
GP interface and control of the therapeutic compliance in the event of relevant chronicity.

What are your vision and overall objectives?

Help inhabitants of our region finding the appropriate service by enabling them stay at home in the event of health problem wherever possible.

What is your value proposition?

Improving the quality of life of elderly people and offering high standard quality services accompanied by social sustainable costs.

Who is your customer(s)?

The customers are elderly people along with their families. We offer a special support to those people who contact the Foundation to meet other needs and after the hospital stay are likely to be alone and are not fully recovered from a chronic disease. The Case Manager designs customized plans for all the elderly people requesting it.

What approaches to you use to reach your customers?

The approaches that will be taken to reach our customers consist of contacting general practitioners, voluntary associations operating in the area and local health agencies.

What are your primary activities?

Health care for disable and elderly people in nursing home and day care communities. Rehabilitation for elderly people post injury and clinic for outpatient.

Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?

In our region a wide range of services in favor of elderly people is being provided and all our peers will benefit from this information system. At the present time any other organization is offering specific home care services for elderly people.

What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?

The aim of the project is overcoming of fragmentation between competence and structures that provide services. Considering the growth of the elderly population in the area, our project will produce other initiatives to improve the quality of life of older people in their own homes.

Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward

By validating a successful model the Foundation will be able to test it in the other Centres distributed over three Italian regions: Lombardia, Piemonte and Liguria.

What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]

New customer group(s).

What makes your business "ready" for growth?

There is a high demand for continued assistance from families related with frail elderly people. The National Health Service has been cutting off investments and and definitely savings in hospital costs would free up resources for other services. The burden of cost for nursing home admission which currently falls on family can be postponed in time and partially prevented.

What are your key growth objectives?

Meeting the demand of home care in favor of elderly people and their families.

What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?

This project is intended to assess the state of feasibility of this new service on about 30 patients involving two Case Managers. After a year of operation the project outcomes will be evaluated. During the second year the Foundation will be able to double the staff to manage up to 60 patients.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Significant cost reduction in specialized care and improvement of the quality of life can be shown only when the project will start. Indicator results obtained from this project will be used to test the suitability and reproducibility of the model. We have no way to documenting the reduction of access to the hospital, but certainly the greatest sense of security will reduce the use of inappropriate admissions. In addition, it will decrease the use of nursing homes for people still self-efficient.

What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?

A wide range of indicators, economic and satisfaction will be taken into consideration. There are some international evaluation indicators about anxiety and wellness that will prove the effectiveness of the project. Incidence family burden: n ° of days absence from work / family total days worked months
% Level of anxiety Care Giver at the first assessment (start location) /% level of anxiety in later evaluation (end of course)
Well-being perceived by Elder at the first assessment (start location) / State of perceived well-being in later evaluation Elder (end of course)
Days of hospitalization average diabetic patient / hospital days average diabetic patient tutoring
Cost patient tutoring / Cost patient unattended
Cost patient tutoring / Cost patient hospitalization at nursing home

Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?

Given the pronounce increase of the elderly population this model could be replicable in other areas and regions of our country.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

Within 1-3 years the Foundation will be able to respond to an increasing demand meeting 50% of the emerging needs in the area. The elderly population is known to represent 20% of 100.000 citizens. The project is also intended to test the feasibility of this model and the Foundation could replicate it in the other Centres distributed over three Italian regions (Lombardia, Piemonte and Liguria).

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Elaborate on your current financing strategy

The specialized personnel of the Foundation (both administrative and medical) will be employed in this project in Cesano Boscone. 1 Euro = 1.28 $
ACTION 1:
Start-up counseling (purchase furniture and equipment) € 5,000
Materials consumption € 3,000
TOTAL ACTION 1 € 8,000
ACTION 2:
Recruitment and assumption (definition of individual plans of care)
TOTAL ACTION 2 € 5,914
ACTION 3:
Counseling (door operator + assistant social) € 58,833.33
Staff to access at home TUTORING € 60,919
Staff to access OUT OF TUTORING home € 10,714
Case Manager € 50,265
TOTAL ACTION 3 € 180,731

OTHER COSTS
Petrol care at home € 17,061
Petrol performance out of home € 545
Utilities + cleaning (for 70 sqm) € 5,506
Other operating costs (telephone, internet) € 3,025
Car rental € 5000

Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)

40%

Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)

0%

Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Other beneficiaries.

Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)

Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

財団, NGO, Regional government.

Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)

Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Regional government.

Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail

TIn order to start and test the project the Foundation intends to allocate internal resources (40%) and search for external support from philanthropic organizations (60%) to start and test the project. In the future il will be possible identify a cost sustainable for the families or the elderly person and founding by Regional authorities.

Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)

60%

Philanthrophy strategies you are using

Diversified strategy.

Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail

The Foundation has already benefited from the financial support of some philanthropic foundations and a new request for this project has been recently applied. We have also signed a Letter of Intent with the local health public organizations: in the future they will be able to sustain the costs of our work in the form of a contract.

Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.

We hope that the results of this trial will be acquired as a new service from the regional health authorities.

Exeko: Inclusion through innovation in culture and education

In conjunction with existing resources, Exeko relies on cultural and intellectual mediation as motors of social change and vectors of citizen participation, prevention of crime, employability, identity reinforcement, school perseverance, social diversity. Its programs promote creativity as a measure of consciousness-raising and mediation but also as a strategy amongst dysfunctional youth.

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団体名

Exeko

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, XX

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Canada, QC

団体の種類:

非営利団体

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Exeko: Inclusion through innovation in culture and education

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

In conjunction with existing resources, Exeko relies on cultural and intellectual mediation as motors of social change and vectors of citizen participation, prevention of crime, employability, identity reinforcement, school perseverance, social diversity. Its programs promote creativity as a measure of consciousness-raising and mediation but also as a strategy amongst dysfunctional youth.
Its projects attract, surprise and mobilize social outcasts thanks to their unique and humane approach, transmitting fundamental knowledge in an accessible manner that is designed to awaken individual potential through empowerment.
We work with the homeless, in prison environment, in intellectual disability, in aboriginal communities.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

Increase awareness and funding opportunities
Ensuring the expansion of programs and projects in Quebec and Canada and the measurement of their impacts.
Ensure the development of team skills and working tools.

Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Message & Brand Strategy

Need #2

Opportunity Analysis

Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!

Exeko is now entering a new and major stage of its development. It is confronted with marketing challenges due to the diversity of its clients, fields of interest and aspiration towards Pan-Canadian deployment (begun). Its networks of sponsors has multiplied tremendously over the last few years and its capacity to communicate a clear message is essential to set up its various development plans (implantation strategies, financing, greater public awareness, positioning on the Market)
Its needs revolve mainly around revising the Exeko brand and signature while maintaining a clear message for all its different target groups.
Exeko’s development has led it to meet partners from all fields. It is seeking to update its image while preserving its dynamic and legitimate work ethics.
Exeko is presently developing a larger audience. Its message must be perfectly clear both to the public as to their participants (4500 people in need )and actors in the field.
Very few organizations such as ours have made it on the market. We intend to continue innovating and creative branding and development tools according to their contemporary image in the spheres of creative and market economy.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Non-biased and complimentary dialogue respecting individual skills

2.

Creativity and Communication

3.

Humane exchange above all, according to Exeko value

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

Overall

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

Yes, however Exeko has not called upon consultants to this effect. Exeko’s branding has been established internally by its team, stemming from the Arts, Engineering, Marketing and Commerce until now.
On the other hand, Exeko is presently working with consultants as to the creation of SWOT, Pan-Canadian Development Strategy, IT, economic, social, cognitive and inclusive impact evaluation of its different projects and is therefore very familiar with the former.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

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Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Clarify our message to the widest possible audience

2.

Update our branding tools

3.

Ensure a strong image for the expansion of programs in Quebec and Canada

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Up to now, Exeko has touched over 4500 social outcasts via its projects and programs essentially in Quebec. 1500 of them are dysfunctional youth, over 1 000 homeless Aboriginal youth, over 600 First Nations children and families on reserves and over 200 professional and emerging Artists. An additional 3200 visitors have attended Exeko’s last 3 exhibitions.
Exeko has also trained a dozen First Nations mediators on reserves, lent its programs to its partners, trained a dozen mediators who share their strategies with its field partners (over 100 since the creation of Exeko), offered its first professional steps to Intellectually Challenged Artists, allowed for employment and lodging thanks to its programs.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

New branding means reinforcing Exeko’s power of« seduction » amongst an entire stretch of field partners, both private public. It also means developing even larger potential amongst its network of greater public donors. In this manner, Exeko shall be perfectly equipped to meet the markets of Quebec and Canada with confidence and leadership, and take a leading stand in addressing the needs of thousands of social outcasts each year.

Creative Hub - Be Celebrated not Tolerated

Labels are for jars not for people, but if they stick then turn the negative labels and replace them with positive ones like innovator, world changer & dream maker. We will get to where we need to be by following our aspirations, causing a ruckus and never giving up, we are celebrated not tolerated and defy all odds! Experts built the titanic and it sunk, amateurs built the Ark & it floated.

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Replicating Evidence-Based Programs that Promote Empathy/Empowerment for Youth and College Students

Kidsbridge created the Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum located on the campus of The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in Ewing, NJ. It is the only 'evidence-based' youth tolerance museum in the U.S., and we would like to replicate our successful 'learning lab' model on other college campuses.

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団体名

Kidsbridge, Inc.

団体の所在国

United States, NJ, Trenton, Mercer County

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States, NJ, Trenton, Mercer County

団体の種類:

非営利団体

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Replicating Evidence-Based Programs that Promote Empathy/Empowerment for Youth and College Students

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拡大中(次のステップで、地域または世界規模でインパクトを拡大させる予定)

What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

Kidsbridge created the Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum located on the campus of The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in Ewing, NJ. It is the only 'evidence-based' youth tolerance museum in the U.S., and we would like to replicate our successful 'learning lab' model on other college campuses. Not only do we have statistically significant attitude improvements for visiting youth and college student docents, but this program improves teaching and motivation in the areas of character education, diversity appreciation, victim empowerment and UPstander behavior for teachers, counselors, anti-bullying specialists and principals as well. Most innovative about our approach is the committed partnership among Kidsbridge, TCNJ's Education & Psychology departments, and the college students themselves.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

1) Pilot our youth tolerance museum model on other college/university campuses.

2) Create a mobile youth tolerance museum -- a.k.a., an outreach program on wheels that travels to schools and organizations unable to visit our tolerance museum.

3) Expand our reach to educate more kids, youth, college students, parents and educators (teachers, counselors and principals).

Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Opportunity Analysis

Need #2

Message & Brand Strategy

Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!

Kidsbridge needs assistance in creating a business and communications plan that will strategically assess our resources, capabilities and challenges to export our successful museum model to other college campuses, tolerance centers or children's museums. Our 'evidence-based' model does not exist anywhere else, and we believe the time is right to replicate this program that teaches strategies and promotes discussion about: anti-bullying; diversity appreciation; respect for all persons; empathy & victim empowerment; UPstander behavior; peaceful conflict resolution; youth activism and aspiration to college. A successful collaboration includes: involved Education and Psychology departments of the college/university, college students trained to be volunteer docents and retired educators who also volunteer their time. It is the foundation on which this successful 'learning lab" format is based, as such can be easily replicated given a commitment to youth education, empathy and tolerance. Expert consulting will strengthen our analysis and guide us in the next strategic steps. More than 160,000 kids avoid school each year in the US because they fear being bullied. We can't wait any longer.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Honesty and no hidden agendas.

2.

Passion and enthusiasm.

3.

Working with empathetic persons who want to make the world a better place.

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

In addition to business acumen, a business plan and strategic thinking, financial support would be used to work with a museum design company to: 1) Accurately assess the cost to replicate the museum to other venues, 2) Brand the Kidsbridge name and tolerance museum for other venues and 3) Create a marketing/communications plan to pilot a replication of the tolerance museum – including the critical steps of recruiting committed partners and choosing the right setting. The museum program is the jewel in the Kidsbridge crown. Other Kidsbridge programs could be reviewed for replication as well.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

Kidsbridge has not had the resources to replicate our 'evidence-based' museum program. We believe the time is right to clone this model. Our museum program is strong; since opening in 2006 we've educated more than 15,000 youth and 300 educators (2500/year). With the focus on bullying and cyberbulling’s daily threats to kids, educators are looking for more effective answers. Our museum program provides them.

Kidsbridge has worked with many consultants before including; special event planning companies and those focusing on strategic planning, branding, social media and database management.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

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Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Business plan to replicate tolerance museum pilot program complete with costs and schedule.

2.

Marketing/communications plan for tolerance museum pilot program to include social media.

3.

Promotional/marketing kit to send to prospective colleges/universities.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Assessing since 2007, our 'evidence-based' program has created statistically significant improvements in youth outcomes for: 1) empathy, 2) stereotype knowledge, 3) aspiration to college, 4) religious diversity, 5) moral reasoning and 6) empowerment. Each year 300 college students are trained and volunteer as museum docents to lead small group discussions with visiting youth.

This is significant for two major reasons: Empathy is precipitously dropping for our youth and bullying/cyberbullying are on the rise. Educators indicate they have noticed recent changes in the core values and ethics of young students. This new generation is driven by materialism and an increasing addiction to technology – leading to declines in interpersonal skills and lack of empathy for their fellow classmates.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

Our ‘evidence-based’ program will be effective in creating empathy, empowerment and other positive attitude characteristics – yielding more youth, college students and adults who are practiced and empowered to stop bullies, intervene safely in potentially dangerous situations and stand up to make their schools and communities safer, better places to thrive.

Creating a learning lab on a college campus will allow that university to nurture a culture of empathy and empowerment for students, professors and administrators. For example, Penn State would be perfect for a tolerance museum. Sources state that this University has not moved forward in an impactful way to change its “football first” culture. A new safe place on campus could serve as a culture changer for those who need it most.

Communication DEALL -India's indigenous model for Autism intervention

The Communication DEALL program was developed by Dr. Karanth,as a self sustaining model to bridge the gap between the large numbers of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and the near total lack of services for the same,in the context of an emerging economy.The purpose of the program is to provide early ,intensive intervention so as to optimize the child's potential to join the mainstream.

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The Com DEALL Trust

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団体の所在国

India, KA, Bangalore

Organization's Country of Operation

India, KA, Bangalore

Type of Organization

Non‐profit/NGO

Year of launch of the organization

2003

Years in Operation

5 年超

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

Nil

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.

As Dr.Karanth's work with Autism got to be known,the number of families seeking her help spiraled. Returning to the country(after her Fulbright Professorship) she found 23 families waiting for her.There was no way she could help them single handed. Her model for intervention called for intensive , multidisciplinary inputs. A model for delivering her idea had to be worked out.Com DEALL was born!

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Communication DEALL -India's indigenous model for Autism intervention

Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?

Early intervention is documented to produce the best overall long term results for children with developmental disabilities in general and for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in particular. In view of the total lack of such programs in the country along with the steeply increasing number of children diagnosed with ASD, the Communication DEALL (Com DEALL) program was initiated.The content of the program is greatly influenced by the intensive work carried out by the program developer with a gifted child over a period of a decade. The specifics of the model were developed to address the challenges of intervention in the Indian context- the child to trained therapist ratio, high costs of intervention, lack of facilities for sustained care, families often having to up root themselves in search of interventionists who are primarily available only in the cities and the burden of traveling with a special needs child from one end of the city to another in order to access services.
Communication DEALL (Developmental Eclectic Approach to Language Learning) intervention program targets the sensory perceptual, motor and communication issues in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) .The theoretical underpinnings of the Communication DEALL program is that ASD is caused by biological, specifically neurological disorder resulting in a range of sensory perceptual disorders and motor executive difficulties. The communication, social and cognitive deficits, are seen as a consequence of the sensory motor deficits rather than the core symptoms of the disorder.

Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?

Autistic behavioral challenges are seen as a consequence of the child's underlying sensory motor difficulties unlike the popular behavioristic approaches. The intervention is child centered identifying and addressing the range of sensory motor issues and developmental lags of each child,with additional focus on parent empowerment.The aim is to mainstream the child thereby reducing the demands on society for sustained care.Accountability is measured in the context of strict timelines which is unique to this model. Multidisciplinary inputs ensure a holistic perspective of the child.The cost of intervention is lowered by adopting a group strategy as against a one on one model that most interventions are based on, thus minimizing hard to obtain professional resources .

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

A multidisciplinary team that works together (not in different departments) with a group of children for 3 hours a day over an academic year ensures that the therapists are familiar with each child, the different therapeutic services for each child are complementary and the therapists and children bond over an extended period of time.
The program is well documented at every step. Documentation has ensured that the program can be replicated anywhere. A ten year retrospective study shows that 76.5%of the children are continuing in mainstream schools (Karanth, P & Chandhok,T 2013 In Press. Impact of Early Intervention on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders as Measured by Inclusion and Retention in Mainstream Schools,Indian Journal of Pediatrics)

How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?

Innovation marks the genesis of the program and forms its backbone too. A group intervention program was developed when its founder realized that children who did well in traditional one on one therapy often lacked the skills required to transition into regular mainstream schools with unfavorable teacher to student ratio and limited additional support. Three years after inception, expansion plans had to be paused in light of the lack of trained manpower. A trust was set up. The organization shifted focus to documentation, to ease replication .The program is now documented in 12 manuals and 5 CDs. Training programs at different levels have been initiated with university accreditation for training program obtained in order to meet the needs of different stakeholders.

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The systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)

Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets

Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]

Disability

Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]

Intervention, Follow-up, Social integration.

Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?

While we have received many requests for training and setting up of new units, there are some (mainly NGOs) that lack funds for training and/ or infrastructure. In order to provide EI to all children across the country and elsewhere it is important that we set up units that are self sufficient with adequate trained manpower.To facilitate this process we need a permanent building with adequate facilities to cover the wide range of activities. In addition, we would like to build a committed group of researchers who with mentoring from senior researchers in grant writing and fund raising, will eventually develop more large scale projects and sustain themselves in future by raising independent funds.

Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]

Scaling (growing impact on a regional or global scale)

Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]

Patient-centered design, New approaches to distribution of health products and services, New financing strategies for health.

If other, specify here:

Self sustaining model of intervention keeping in mind the local context, needs and sustainability..

Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]

Consultation, Education/training.

If other, specify here:

Indigenously developed tools and intervention methods are culture sensitive and cost effective.

Please describe your solution in more detail

Provision of accessible, affordable, high quality, intensive early intervention with a clear target of maximizing chances for every child of inclusion and retention in mainstream schools; spreading the reach of the program by increasing awareness for identification and early intervention, scaling up the model across the country and providing training at different levels for different stake holders both face to face and through the distant mode and eventually enabling easy and affordable access to clinical services and guidance through the internet.To build a data base in hitherto understudied populations with ASD in order to address their issues more specifically.

What are your vision and overall objectives?

The vision is to develop Communication DEALL program as a viable model, that with training can be replicated as and where needed, to make it available on a larger scale without our continuous involvement, in order to serve the requirements of an ever- increasing number of children with developmental language disorders including those with the Autism Spectrum Disorders, within their community. We have moved beyond providing purely clinical service to becoming a resource for others in terms of materials and training.We have produced a host of low cost indigenous material for use by trainers and families.Our goal now is to set up as many Com DEALL units as possible with as far a geographical reach as possible and address the needs of children beyond the EI program into school years.

What is your value proposition?

Our USP is the opportunity we provide to every child in the program to join the mainstream.76.5% of our children who were followed up in a ten year retrospective study were continuing in mainstream schools (2-7) years post intervention with us. Mainstreaming the child reduces the demand for sustained care which is critical in resource strapped emerging markets.The multidisciplinary nature of inputs ensures that all the child's needs are met under a single roof.A major strength is the self sustaining nature of the model. Establishing more Com DEALL units and exploring alternate models of service delivery will ensure that families can avail services within their own communities . Continuous evaluation ensures that the requirements of evidence based practice are met.

Who is your customer(s)?

Families of children with ASD, Government agencies ,NGOs,Clinics,Hospitals,Professionals and schools that cater to children with developmental disabilties are our customers.We are looking to reach out to people interested in setting up Com DEALL units. Our training programs are geared towards parents, graduate students and professionals in the field. The material department caters to the needs of our clinical population and the training program.Ultimately it is the children with communication disorders such as Autism Spectrum,Disorder,Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Verbal Dyspraxias .

What approaches to you use to reach your customers?

i) Our website which is updated regularly,( ii)workshops and conferences, (iii)publication and distribution of public education posters and research publications (E.g. Karanth, Shaista and Srikanth.2010 Efficacy of Communication DEALL — An Indigenous Early Intervention Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Karanth,P and Archana S,2013 exploring Pre requisite learning skills in young children and their implications for understanding Autistic behavior.in Kar,,B,R(Ed),Cognition and Brain Development, APA, NY.) (iv)Outreach to other organizations. ( v) Families of children who have received intervention with us are by far our best advocates.

What are your primary activities?

Clinical-providing intensive early, multidisciplinary intervention to children with developmental disorders through our existing model.
Designing new clinical programs to address additional needs.
Care giver support-counselling and training .
Awareness-on early identification and early intervention through workshops and production and distribution of public education material
Inclusive Education -through workshops and building of school networks which support inclusion
Training-at the PG diploma level and short term courses for professionals,school teachers and care givers
Preparation of low cost,culturally sensitive assessment and intervention material
Scaling up , providing training and assistance in setting up Com DEALL units at different geographical locations

Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?

Government organizations,NGOs, and other practitioners who provide early intervention within other models emerging largely from the west are our peers. The theoretical framework for our intervention program has been developed indigenously and lacks the face value of better established programs from elsewhere. Our peers and competitors could question the scientific validity of the program. We are trying to address this by conducting and encouraging others to conduct scientific studies of our model.

What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?

The program was started as a response to the urgent need for services expressed by a group of parents .Over the last decade, it has grown extensively in diverse areas. The current infrastructure is totally inadequate and inappropriate to serve the needs of the organization as it is today and as it grows. For example, we function out of rented premises in a residential area and receive complaints about issues such as children crying,no parking space etc.Hence there is an urgent need to have a place that is tailor made to accommodate our clinical training and research needs in a suitable non residential area currently estimated at US$ 3 million. This has necessitated spreading our scant professional manpower to the additional target of fund raising for infrastructure.

Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward

Scaling up across the country and outside by setting up a very large number of Com DEALL units with as wide as spread as the current Montessori preschools. The number of units that are functional on the ground and their outcome in terms of numbers of children successfully mainstreamed will be the measure of our success.

What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]

New customer group(s), New regions(s).

What makes your business "ready" for growth?

Post documentation we are ready to scale up within and outside the country. We have conducted awareness programs in neighboring countries like Dubai and Bangladesh. Overseas teams have also visited us. These and several others have expressed interest in duplicating our setting up units.We are confident we can work through some country specific challenges such as local licenses and trained manpower

What are your key growth objectives?

To emerge as a comprehensive resource provider for those interested in providing long term services for the overall well being of the child with developmental disabilities such as ASD, before and across the school year.We have accomplished he targets we set for ourselves in 2004, from being a purely clinical service with a narrow focus on EI to a multifaceted organization for children with ASD.

What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?

Training-
i) replication of units-3-5 units per year during 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14
ii) Certificate Programs – minimum of 2 /year from 2011-12.
iii) Awareness Programs - approximately 5/year from 2011-12.
Clinical
production and release of the four new clinical programs that are currently under trial,by December 2014
1. Pre DEALL
2.Social Coommunication program
3.School Transition Program
4.Family Mediated Intervention Program
Research
3-5 minor research projects with minimum of 5 publications/submissions from 2012 – 2013
Administration
Setting up of Management Integrated Systems to enable documentation,dissemination of training and material, outreach to other organizations, caregivers and support for inclusive education, orientation and in service training.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

A follow up study of all the children enrolled in the Com DEALL program at Bangalore from 2000-2009 was undertaken. Results of the study show that 76.5%of the children who completed the program were continuing in mainstream schools.
We have set up nine units of ComDEALL in six Indian cities.There is a demand for more from within the countries and neighboring countries as well.
Our Post graduate Diploma course has got University Accreditation and recognition from the Rehabilitation Council of India . 25 trained interventionists will be passing out each year starting from 2014. A continuous effort is made to update the program and improve the result.Over 50 awareness programs have been conducted to enhance early identification leading to early intervention,and to the development of a less intensive Pre DEALL program for children below the age of three years,since the clinical experience clearly suggests better and quicker results with younger children .The concerns expressed by parents in the follow up study have led to four new clinical programs being designed (currently under trial).
An impact study of our program, commissioned by Sir Ratan Tata Trust was carried out by an external evaluator( Dr.M.V. Ashok, listed as referee).A baseline study of our current project has also been carried out by him.He may please be contacted for further details.

What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?

We have distributed 6186 communication aids to (4000-5000) individuals/organizations.
About 850 public education posters have also been disbursed to pediatricians, preschools and other stake holders, to date.
Over the last 3 years we have actively reached out to several organizations working in this area. Representatives of about 100 organizations participated in our National Meet organized in December 2008
A workshop on issues that face the families of children with A S D was held and a manual for ‘Families of Children with A S D’ has been produced and released in Oct 2010
Inclusive education – Three workshops on Inclusive Education have been conducted and a network of schools is being developed.
Dr.M.V.Ashok may be contacted for further details.

Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?

It is working in several geographical regions in India.We have three units in Karnataka (Bangalore), two in Kerala (Ernakulum & Calicut), one each in Madhya Pradesh (Gwalior), Maharashtra (Mumbai), Punjab​​ (Ludhiana) and Puducherry,
While interest in replicating Com DEALL units in countries such as UAE,Malaysia and Bangladesh have been received there have been issues with legal requirements which we will have to address .
In principle the model which is within the developmental framework is applicable any where in the world provided there is access to trained manpower.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We are targeting another dozen such centers in the next three years across India and some neighboring countries.We aim to create a cadre of well trained Early Interventionists(approximately 25 per year) and enhancing capabilities of existing professionals from all related professions(Speech Therapists,Occupational therapists,Physicians,Educators,Psychologists, Pediatricians as well as parents) through short term certificate training programs. In the next three years ,Com DEALL will have a small but committed group of researchers who with the completion and publication of small scale projects with mentoring from senior researchers in grant writing and fund raising, will eventually develop more large scale projects and sustain themselves in future by raising independent research funds.

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Elaborate on your current financing strategy

Income generated from the fees paid by the children is sufficient to run the clinical component. Any individual / organization wishing to start a unit is required to send their core team for a period of two weeks to train at the head office.New units are required to pay approx.$4546 towards, training, monthly monitoring of individual profiles over two years and field inspection by staff from head office. There are some NGOs that wish to start a unit but lack resources either in terms of funds for training and/ infrastructure. We are looking at raising funds to support such needy and deserving institutions for the initial two year period following which we will empower them to become self sufficient. Annual staff salaries for a unit are $8200 ,approx.Fixture furniture and therapy material would cost $2637.
The training component currently receives support through a grant from the Navajbai Ratan Tata trust. However, we plan to be self sufficient by 2015 through the fees collected from individuals trained.
Fund raising activities are proposed for infrastructure development and enhancing visibility of our activities.

Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)

57.86%

Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)

41.42%

Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

個人, Patients, Caregivers, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.

Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)

0.72%

Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

財団, NGO, Private businesses, Regional government, 国家, Others.

Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)

NIL

Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

NGO, Private businesses.

Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail

Our clinical programs are self sustaining and will continue to be so, Funding for new clinical, training and research programs are raised through grant proposals to funding agencies such as Sir Ratan Tata Trust.On implementation, after field trials all of them will be self sufficient. Any additional new programs will be taken forward similarly. Funds for infrastructure including land and building will be raised through specific fund raising activities.For the long term a corpus fund to address the needs of children below the poverty line and units that do not have the necessary financial strength will be built.

Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)

54.84%

Philanthrophy strategies you are using

Diversified strategy.

Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail

Our clinical services have been and will continue to be self sufficient. It is worth noting that these services are hardly available in India. Our units offer quality intensive clinical services at 1/20th to 1/30th the cost of comparable services in the west. This often works out on par or in several instances below the charges that families pay per child for preschool enrollment in cities like Bangalore and Mumbai and are within the reach of most middle and upper middle class families. For those who cannot afford these fees alternates such as sponsorship and the under trial Family Mediated Intervention Programs at lower cost are being put in place.

Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.

Our clinical component is self sustaining.The training component receives support from the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust. However, in the next three years, we intend to be self sufficient through the fees collected from the trainees.
The research component would sustain itself through raising grants for its research projects.
In addition to the above, we are now enlisting the involvement and support of our former students/peers living abroad to form a network to raise funds for us .

miraclefeet

miraclefeet was created to increase access to clubfoot treatment in developing countries. Untreated clubfoot is one of the primary causes of physical disability in the world. miraclefeet embeds the new gold standard, nonsurgical Ponseti Method treatment into the public health system, leveraging local doctors working in public hospitals to create long-term sustainable solutions, We believe our approach is innovative in that it brings a low cost, but extremely effective, treatment into countries without fostering dependence. 1 out of 750 children are affected by clubfoot worldwide.

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Chesca

Colloredo-Mansfeld

Title

Executive Director

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団体名

miraclefeet

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States, NC, Chapel Hill, Orange County

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

India, MM, Multiple

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非営利団体

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miraclefeet

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成長(試験運営を続けながら拡大を開始している)

What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

miraclefeet was created to increase access to clubfoot treatment in developing countries. Untreated clubfoot is one of the primary causes of physical disability in the world. miraclefeet embeds the new gold standard, nonsurgical Ponseti Method treatment into the public health system, leveraging local doctors working in public hospitals to create long-term sustainable solutions, We believe our approach is innovative in that it brings a low cost, but extremely effective, treatment into countries without fostering dependence. 1 out of 750 children are affected by clubfoot worldwide. Over 1 million children cannot walk due to untreated clubfoot. The treatment prevents a lifetime of disability and costs less than $250/child.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

1. Continued program development to grow from 2,500 new children in treatment added this year to 5,000 new children added next year (and laying the foundation to increase to 12,000/year by FY 2016)

2. Increased brand awareness to enable a shift from relying on a small number of high net worth donors to a broader base of donors to support program growth

3. Leverage a $2M matching grant from two large donors so we bring in a total of $4M in FY 2014

Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Consumer/Audience Acquisition

Need #2

Digital Marketing Strategy

Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!

We believe that this issue will appeal to a broad audience, much as the cleft palate issue has resonated well with US audiences. The idea of being able to transform a child's life by providing a low-risk, low-tech, $250 treatment is extremely compelling. Now we have a good body of results (1,700 children in treatment in 9 countries) we believe the timing is right to get the story out there and build a broad support base. We also have been very lucky to have been given a $2M matching grant and we would like to capitalize on that opportunity by building a broad base of small donors. We would like to American Express to help us develop a multifaceted strategic plan for developing our base of supporters that we can implement over the next 2 years. The plan could include corporate partnerships, celebrities born with clubfoot, clubfoot families and the energy of young people particularly those involved in youth sports, combined with the power of social media. Ideally the plan will contain several different initiatives to engage with donors creatively to raise awareness of the issue of clubfoot, increase brand recognition and ultimately raise more funds for treatment.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Open and clear communication

2.

A shared passion for the cause of transforming children's lives by delivering simple, low cost treatment

3.

A focused and results-oriented approach with clear goals and measurable impact

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

American Express's support will be focused on the overall organization. Our goal is to use American Express's expertise to enable us to expand our support base in the US which will enable us to continue to grow our international impact. Our goal is to be treating over 12,000 new children per year within 5 years in many different developing countries, including but not limited to our existing countries.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

We been very successful in raising funds from high net worth individuals and small family foundations. We have steered away from more expensive fundraising techniques such as direct mail. However, we believe the issue of untreated clubfoot lends itself to broad support, especially among families with children and youth. While we have the usual social media tools in place to raise awareness among small donors through Facebook, our blog, Twitter and our website, there is much more we can do to engage with small donors. We have used external consultants in limited ways but not in this area.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

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Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Raised brand awareness

2.

Broader donor base

3.

Increased funds raised from small donors

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We have been able to raise over $3M in the last three years, but much of this comes from a small number of large donors. We have just over 1,000 names in our database and have received donations from 800 people. We have done very little to appeal more broadly since we have been been able to focus on very large donations to provide the seed funding for the start-up phase. This has been very effective and low cost. However, now we have results and are ready to scale our organization we need to expand the fundraising effort and believe broadening our base is key to our long-term success. Our fundraising to date has enabled us to develop programs in 9 countries, to enroll 1,800 children in treatment and to position ourselves as the leading organization focused on clubfoot.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

If we can increase fundraising by acquiring more followers, we will be able to maximize the $2M matching grant that we have been challenged to meet by to high net worth donors. We will also build the pipeline that we will need to continue to grow (we need to raise $9M over the next 5 years to meet our program goal of treating 12,000 children/year by 2016). Each child we treat increases the chances of that individual becoming a productive member of their family, community and country and increases the chances of the country changing policy to include clubfoot as part of their national health program. Quite simply, American Express support will enable us to transform thousands more children's lives and create a long-term sustainable solution in multiple countries.

Making Microfinance Instiutions Disability Inclusive

No more than .5% per cent of clients of MFIs are persons with disabiltiies (in spite of the fact that they make make up 15% of the world's population) and the Center is in the middle of testing a roadmap for disability inclusion at Fundacion Paraguaya to prove that clients with disabilities can make good clients and that modifying the MFI to make it fully accessible is not an expensive propositon. What is really innovative about the Center's approach is that we are making a strong business case for disability inclusion, on top of the obvious legal and moral case.

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Joshua

Goldstein

Title

Principal Director for Economic Ctitizenship and Disability Inclusion

団体の

団体名

Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION

団体の所在国

United States

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United States, MA, Boston, Middlesex County

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非営利団体

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Making Microfinance Instiutions Disability Inclusive

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What problem is your organization committed to solving? In particular, share what is innovative about your approach.

No more than .5% per cent of clients of MFIs are persons with disabiltiies (in spite of the fact that they make make up 15% of the world's population) and the Center is in the middle of testing a roadmap for disability inclusion at Fundacion Paraguaya to prove that clients with disabilities can make good clients and that modifying the MFI to make it fully accessible is not an expensive propositon. What is really innovative about the Center's approach is that we are making a strong business case for disability inclusion, on top of the obvious legal and moral case. With the aging of the global population, and the fact that more than 40 per cent of all humanity has a disability by the age of 60, it is clear that current clients who do not have a disability today may well have one tomorrow.

What are your organization's top three priorities in the next year?

1)To complete the testing and implementation of the Roadmap for Disability Inclusion at Fundacion Paraguaya
2) To Create an open source web portal to disseminate our tools and trainings to the global microfinance industry
3) To begin implementing the roadmap with 3 MFIs partners in India, under the leadership of India Project Manager, Siddhartha Chowdhri.

Your project

Project Support

Need #1

Digital Marketing Strategy

Need #2

Consumer/Audience Acquisition

Based on your first choice of the eight technical categories you selected above, what is your specific project need? Please be specific!

To create a web portal and other digitial platforms to dissemniate our tools and tranings to the rest of the industry and more broadly to make the the industry aware of the inclusion work we are doing. The expertise American Express can bring to the table in developing these digital and marketing tools would be invaluable in achieving our goals. Ignorance is the major roadblock to global replication and sucess and the knowledge sharing a web portal would allow would go a long way to obviating this problem.

What three characteristics or qualities do you prioritize in working relationships/partnerships?

1.

Openess

2.

Commitment

3.

Passion for the mission

Will support from American Express be focused on your organization overall or a specific product/service? Please describe.

Specific communcation and marketing products and services for our disability inclusion project area.

Have you focused on the above area previously? If so, please explain, including whether you have worked with outside consultants before.

No, except conceptually as we have lacked the resources to do this.

Are you able to commit 3-5 hours/wk over 10-12 weeks?

Yes

Are you able to meet virtually or at a convenient in-person location?

Yes

Are you able to meet in the city where your organization is based?

Yes

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Rank your three intended outcomes of this project:

1.

Creating an interactive web portal to share our tools and trainings with global microfinance community

2.

Make sure the web portal is fully accesible for persons with a variety of disabilties

3.

Increase the number of MFIS who are actively opening their doors to clients with disabilties.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Over the last year we have designed and begun to implement a full roadmap to disability incusion at Fundacion Paraguaya. Sensitivity trainings of FP staff has increased outreach to clients or potential clients with disabilities. An assessment of the built enviroment by a firm that does accessibilty audits has lead to the buildingthe first ramp at FP's headquarters and plans for many more at branches throughout the country in 2013,. Tools to market to persons with disabilities are being developed to do outreach to clients. Finally senior management has made disability inclusion a key priority for the organization from the the top to the bottom.

What is your project future impact after receiving professional support from American Express?

To have a mature,, accesible web portal with a range of tools and trainings that will reach MFIS around the world. The portal will be the place to go for anyone interested in disability will be fully interactive. In additon, American Express will support the creation of digitial marketing materials that will create a buzz around this new portal. The marketing materials like the portal will need to be fully accessible.

Sucre Blue

Our mission at Sucre Blue is to bring next generation diagnostics and medical delivery to the doors of patients who believe in the right of every human being to receive quality care. The aim of our work is to lower the burden of disease on existing medical infrastructure through improved early prevention, detection, and treatment of chronic diseases and eliminate poverty as a result.

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Erin

Little

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団体名

Sucre Blue

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States, MO, Lee's Summit, Jackson County

Organization's Country of Operation

India, KA, Bangalore

Type of Organization

Non‐profit/NGO

Year of launch of the organization

2013

Years in Operation

Idea phase

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

N/A

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.

When I joined Portapure, a social startup, but found it increasingly difficult to run a startup while working without insurance and bearing the expense of over-the-counter care for my Type 1 diabetes. My diabetic pump had broken, and the price tag for a new model was over $5,000 that I could not pay out of pocket. I am determined to eliminate poverty caused by the incredible burden of NCDs.

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Sucre Blue

Explain what the "innovation" is about, e.g., is it the idea and/or the model you use to accomplish the idea, or your understanding of the target population, etc.?

Outside of Tier I and Tier II cities, there is currently no distribution blood glucose strips within villages. Patients are also unable to purchase them individually, unlike many products in India, which results in higher upfront costs and increases the barriers to purchasing the product. Blood glucose monitors currently retail at 4000 rupees, or roughly $80. We believe by lowering the cost of the strip, and layering it with a peer-based service model where the monitor is used free-of-cost, the patient will be financially empowered to make informed decisions regarding their own health purchases.

This model is meant to ensure scalability across states within India and even beyond as it addresses a critical need in the public health system. It provides a win-win for all stakeholders; free marketing to institutions for affordable follow-up treatment; increases patient flow; and provides significant opportunity for employing women and educating entire communities.

Describe how your innovation model is distinct from any other organization in your field?

Sucre Blue trains and employs low-income village women outside of Bangalore to be community health workers within their communities. This peer-based approach uses women who have a background in either treating a diabetic within their household, or themselves. Each community health worker is responsible for going door-to-door to screen, diagnose, and provide affordable blood glucose strips to those with hypertension, diabetes, or cardiac issues.

For each diagnosis, the community health worker follows up with the individual patient and uses SMS technology to collect and send patient data across to the partnered clinical institution. Each patient will also have the ability to buy the blood glucose strips, which currently retail at 25 rupees for a discounted rate of 15.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

Sucre Blue leverages existing resources within the healthcare system and uses it to connect on a grassroots level. What this means is we establish partnerships across stakeholders- from clinics, to the government, and the public health system. We provide incentives to get everyone involved despite their differences to ensure patients have every available option to them, but they agree on the basic need for this program as a way to prevent unnecessary strain on an already burdened system by empowering women with the tools they need to take care of their community.

How do you make sure you constantly innovate in light of (potential) external challenges, or your growth plan?

Our first priority is listening to the needs of our customers and our community health workers. Since our model relies off the peer mentoring and support of those with chronic illness, our obligation lies with making sure they are healthy before going into the field. That they are able to bring the right message, because their own lives have improved with this program, or the lives of those they are caregiving for. These village women are our ultimate support, and without their continued faith in our efforts, we would be unable to move forward.

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The systemic challenge you are trying to overcome (select one)

Bring accessible healthcare to communities in emerging markets

Health area (target market) where the need is [select only one]

Chronic care

Categories along the health continuum you are covering [select all that apply]

Prevention, Detection, Intervention, Follow-up, Long-term care.

Please describe in more detail: what problem are you trying to solve in the organization's specific context?

With over 60 million sufferers, Type II diabetes is a major public health issue in India (IDF Diabetes Atlas). Many studies have shown the high prevalence of diabetes risk factors among Indians (Radha, 2006) and the country is estimated to have 30 million pre-diabetics (Mohan, 2006). In the Bangalore Urban Diabetes study (Rayappa, 1999), it was shown that while the group of subjects with higher socio-economic conditions were more likely to have diabetes, diabetics from lower socio-economic levels were more likely to suffer from complications due to the co-morbidities.

Stage that best applies to your solution [select only one]

Idea (poised to launch)

Core strategies of your business model [select all that apply]

Patient-centered design, Redesign of the public healthcare system for more efficiency (in terms of processes, structure etc.), New approaches to distribution of health products and services, Unconventional partnerships (between traditional healthcare players and players outside healthcare).

If other, specify here:

Most relevant tools you are using to implement the strategies outlined above [select only two]

Technology, Education/training.

If other, specify here:

Please describe your solution in more detail

Sucre Blue enables diabetes patients and people at risk of developing diabetes to measure and record their blood glucose levels in a way that is both affordable and accessible to them. This will be done through the establishment of Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) who provide door-to-door diagnostic and monitoring services in their local communities, supported by Primary Health Centers (PHCs) that provide training, logistical support, and a referral pathway. CHW will provide diabetes screening and monitoring by administering blood sugar tests in exchange for a fee. Visiting diabetics in their home to administer testing and results interpretation provides diabetics and their doctors with better data for disease management and comp, while CHWs are incentivized by profit.

What are your vision and overall objectives?

Our mission at Sucre Blue is to bring next generation diagnostics and medical delivery to the doors of patients who believe in the right of every human being to receive quality care. The aim of our work is to lower the burden of disease on existing medical infrastructure through improved early prevention, detection, and treatment of chronic diseases. Our goal is to eliminate poverty by increasing patient compliance and enhancing an individual’s livelihood.

What is your value proposition?

Sucre Blue provides leverage to existing medical infrastructure by providing data, access, and affordability to empower and educate patients to self-management of chronic illnesses.

Who is your customer(s)?

Our primary customers are rural and peri-urban Indians earning less than $2 a day at-risk or already diagnosed with a chronic illness which requires consistent data and inputs from medical practitioners. These individuals live in communities without current access to hospitals, doctors, or pharmacies within 20 kilometers.

What approaches to you use to reach your customers?

We primarily use our community health workers to provide free screenings to the public for diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. By providing a free door-to-door screening we receive data up front that will allow the CHW to follow up appropriately with each customer, as well as provide a strong relationship between the patient and peer leader who is trained to provide these services within their communities.

What are your primary activities?

Service – this business plan revolves around the offering of the following services:
• Community Health Workers (CHWs) will provide glucometer-based diabetes screening for non-diabetics and monitoring for diabetic patients. In addition, they will also conduct blood pressure monitoring and BMI calculations.
• Each CHW will be associated with a hospital (Primary Health Center (PHC)) to whom they will refer at-risk patients.
• CHWs will keep logs of all patient data collected,
• For follow up patients, blood sugar readings will be sent to the PHC through SMS. This data will form the basis for the metrics we will use to quantify the impact of our business model. CHW advise patients based on their current blood sugar level, as well as selling affordable products.

Who are your peers and competitors? What problems could these players pose to your success or growth?

Sanjivani Health and Relief Committee is currently screening 100,000 people in rural Gurajat, yet has no way to provide free-of-cost medicines to low-income patients . Health Action by People, a similar program based in Kerala, trained 120 personnel to support a population of 200,000. Each health worker averaged Rs. 6000 in profit per month. Sanjeevini Diagnostics goal is to combine the learnings from both pilots to provide screen entire population in peri-urban Bangalore, provide free medicines for diabetes, have CHW follow generate enough revenue where the program is financially sustainable.

What other challenges - individual, organizational, or environmental – are you currently facing or might hinder future success of your business, and how do you plan to overcome those?

We face organizational challenges based on the difficultly of implementing medical work internationally. There have been several significant changes by the IRS that make raising funds, especially under fiscal sponsors, more difficult. Improving our M&E and assuring quality of our programs is difficult as well; and we are coordinating with our CHW to provide monthly check-ins with all female chw in order to ensure lessons are shared and collaborated to retain best practices of these microbusinesses. And of course, working with the government in any capacity is a continued challenge for a variety of reasons- from constant lobbying, follow ups, and ensuring the working relationship with the government stays strong.

Briefly describe your growth strategy going forward

We will implement our service model in 3 phases:
Phase 1: Pilot roll-out from a single PHC supporting 20 CHWs
Phase 2: Expand operations to 4 PHCs serving 400 CHWs
Phase 3: Scale up operations to 50 PHCs serving 5000 CHWs
Phase 4: Optional for-profit expansion

What dimensions for growth are you currently targeting for your innovation [select all that apply]

New customer group(s), New regions(s).

What makes your business "ready" for growth?

We also differ significantly in terms of timing; the Indian government has recently developed a 2 rps blood strip prototype in association with BITS Pilani which aims to test men over the age of 30 an women that are pregnant for diabetes. There are currently no inlays of how they can distribute as well as keep their costs low aside from our model available in the Indian market.

What are your key growth objectives?

Our focus is on improved patient complaince, financially sustainability for CHWs (revenue generation), and ensuring that patients are empowered to make educated health decisions for themselves. We believe that impact at an individual level and providing high-quality service component and technical and customer service training to our female CHWs will enable us to be a leader in NCD treatment.

What is your timeframe for growth, in the short and mid-term? What are the growth milestones and key activities going forward?

Sucre Blue hopes to be self-sustainable in the course of the next four years. Our key milestones will be completing a successful pilot which will inform our best move forward: whether salaries should be provided or microfinance for female CHWs can be offered. Achieving 15% market penetration of our customers is our key metric for success of the pilot. Over the next 18 months, we will have an in-country office which will enable us ease of transactions between US-India. After pilot phase, it will be ensuring quality and training of PHC across Karnataka- since the clinic we partner with are experts in clinical work, it is our job to use their patients to ensure this approach remains at a community level.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Near year-end 2012, the villages we tested the initial idea in we identified two female CHWs, and were able to screen over 100 patients yielding 30 new cases of previously undiagnosed diabetics.

What methods for quantification of social impact are you applying (if at all)?

1. Number of PL/CHWs trained (target = 15)
2. Number of adults pre-screened using Diabetes Risk Score [N=25000]
3. Number of adults screened: blood glucose and blood pressure [N=25000]
4. Number of adults referred to JSMC [N=2000] for initial, quarterly and annual medical review.
5. Number of newly diagnosed diabetics [and hypertensives]; also IFG, IGT, and Prehypertension.
6. Number of diabetics provided regular monitoring
7. Number/percent of diabetics with improved health outcomes [comparison of Pre and Post health parameters].
8. Number of blood glucose strips sold; revenues generated from sale of blood glucose per CHW

Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?

Yes, this solution could be rolled out in any country where basic diagnostics and door-to-door services could be implemented .

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We believe in 3 years we have reached 200,000 patients directly, and have reached over 1 million indirectly from our free screening efforts as well as partnerships with PHC across India and at the government level.

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Elaborate on your current financing strategy

Our currently financing strategy depends entirely on donations until the pilot has been completed. We have a diversified strategy of support ranging from individual donors, companies, foundations, and events to contribute to a multi-pronged approach to fundraising. We will be setting up a Section 25 company under Indian law which will allow us to take on revenue as a part of our program, however since we are in early stage that is not an option for us at this time.

Share of revenue generation in total income of organization (in percent)

Approximately 10 once full pilot has been reached

Direct sales to patients or other beneficiaries (in percent)

Approximately 10 once full pilot has been reached

Of the possible sources of these sales listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Friends and family, Patients, Private businesses, Other beneficiaries.

Licensing fees, e.g., for technology/franchise model (in percent)

N/A

Of the possible sources of these licensing opportunities listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

Private businesses, Regional government, 国家.

Service contract with organizations, e.g., government, NGOs (in percent)

Approximately 10 once pilot has been completed

Of the possible sources of the service contracts listed below, check all that apply to your current strategy

NGO, Regional government, 国家.

Explain your revenue generation strategy in more detail

Each female CHW will generate revenues from the cost of her service coupled with low-cost blood glucose (BCG) strips set at 15 rps as opposed to market retail price of 25 for each individual strip.

Share of philanthropy in total income of organization (in percent)

80

Philanthrophy strategies you are using

Diversified strategy.

Explain your philanthropic approach in more detail

We have received a lot of interest from pharmaceutical companies interested in connecting their current markets and entering more frontier spaces, as blood glucose strips are currently only available in Tier II cities throughout India for the market leaders in BCG strips, Lifescan (One Touch). Sucre Blue offers a significant opportunity to any private sector company looking to connect and develop rural and urban markets within India, as well as develop a rural distribution system across India. As this screens not just for diabetes, but hypertension and cardiac complications, the public health benefits are for a variety of NCD which have long or lifetime-management required from the patient.

Expand on your selections; explain how you will sustain funding over the next 1-3 years.

We hope to have each community health worker generate enough income from the sale of the strips and her services to make this program sustainable within two years.

A Voice for Autism

This program will train mothers of children with autism in the West Bank to work in a cooperative-model ABA therapy program to help their children.

Prajwal Samvidita : Radiance Explored by Differently Abled

The Idea is to create a happy space in form of an amusement park, designed for the members coming from special communities- it would include blind, handicapped and mentally challenged. The idea is to see the radiance, sparkle and light on their faces by providing a day of fun and freedom.

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Literacy for All: Educating through Mobile 140 Million Pakistanis

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Peshawar
Pakistan

We have launched an education program called 'Literarcy for All'. We are determined to teach/literate 140 millions illiterate Pakistanis especially rural Pakistan with special focus on people of Northern Pakistan i.e. FATA and KP - bordering Afghanistan.

For this purpose, our partner who has developed mobile videos for educating people, we are educating people all over Pakistan.

For details explore:
www.rehanschool.com

Creative Enablement

The lesson from this is never to underestimate the extent to which we all have gifts to express and with the right opportunities, can re-emerge as part of our restitution after the excesses of ill-health have run their course. Facilitators who work in mental health, please take special note!  

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Rodney

Tell us about yourself/your team.

Champions of change are an independent network of local people who support each other to use the power of our own journeys to improve health services, raise awareness and reduce stigma.

What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?

Anyone who has lived with symptoms of schizophrenia for a considerable length of time will recognize the perspectives given here: the diagnosable symptoms of sz may be incurably lodged within us and May be a part of our make-up, but that does not in itself present a grim predicament. This is because our disabilities are also our Attributes. Maybe unwittingly, the psychiatrist's diagnosis undermines these attributes and sets them in a grim light. We do not languish in despair but set about engaging the symptoms as evidence of rare qualities to be expressed and applied creatively. My 'pathway to progress' has been photography. Seeing things which 'are not there' enables me to develop an awareness of the imaging possibilities of any scene I see and record it.

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Company Country

United Kingdom, NTT, Nottingham

Primary country where this project is creating social impact

United Kingdom, NTT, Nottingham

Additional countries or regions

Industry

Health Care

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The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?

The social integration of socially excluded elements who seek restitution and meaningful activity, to develop skills and expertise that help to re-engage them creatively and more effectively. So much of the resources devoted to mental health is wasted in non-productive, badly targeted measures more to do with security-obsessions than welfare improvement, when effective measures Stick and do not need the repetitious cycles of a revolving door.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

With the right help, a low maintenance dosage of appropriate medication to reduce the intensity of symptom's extremes -one which does not pile on a burden of disability which excessive medicating is apt to do- and some vocational and training guidance, we can be the creative artists that nature intended us to be, using our gifts to master the medium which is best suited to our attributes.

The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?

It works for the individuals who put forward their creative ideas as part of the solution to some intractable problems regarding engaging incurable people so we are meaningfully occupied and on a road to true integration, in consultation and partnership and in Open dialogue to resolve remaining health issues conclusively.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.

That is photography and visual hallucinations. What then of reconstructing the Dramatist and Playwright, the writer and novelist from auditory hallucinations? Musicians, composers, singers and lyric writers are also only a step away from the same level of creative attribute and giftedness.

The lesson from this is never to underestimate the extent to which we all have gifts to express and with the right opportunities, can re-emerge as part of our restitution after the excesses of ill-health have run their course.

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?

Healthcare trusts frequently engage former patients in voluntary involvement activities. Tthis has a detrimental effect of preferment for a sector of patients according to their aptitudes and willingness to give back to a system which in turn selectively prioritises favourite patients on a fast track and shuts out less trendy or intractable conditions like schizophrenia. Such preferment is subversive of equal treatment and opportunity and entangles professionals in increasingly corrupt practices.

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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.

My medication was severely disabling for many years. I lost faculties which many take for granted and they were only restored to me gradually as dosages were reduced and the guard lowered in the hostilities between clinician and patient. I realized during this process that the elements of symptoms which the clinician was trying to eradicate were my Strengths as an artist! Small wonder that the level of medicating is critical in not rendering patients more disadvantaged than we need to be. And of course this has a strong bearing upon our capacity to recover or make progress.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

More Open dialogue and a greater understanding and acceptance of the essential humanity of people whose repellent qualities are mostly born out of over-medicating and a receptiveness to peer-working and consultation respecting people with lived experiences of conditions and the light we shed upon dark areas of understanding.

What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?

Capacity-building will enable us to encompass and develop more influence respecting our approach to the integrity of personal experiences.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

A lack of resources is pegging us back currently. Nothing succeeds like success however, and we need to build upon our growing momentum to influence more people with Open dialogue

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What is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?

Better outcomes, more effective practices and more humane approaches to our predicaments, enabling more to be achieved for less and streamlining the process to everyone's benefit

How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?

We all give of our time voluntarily and with greater commitment, as our survival depends upon our acceptance and inclusion. We do not see a future in marking us out as pariahs or the excluded. We intend to be back in the fold on our own merits and talents.

Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.

Simply a proliferation in acceptance of our better methods which draws upon a wider engagement and more wide adoption of peer-support techniques

Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.

The development of working practices tried and tested in West Finland which are delivering markedly better results to any comparable region throughout the world, whose principles of Open dialogue are spreading contagiously and high-lighting why other approaches fail, through revolving-door wastage and inappropriate antagonisms between patients and staff with excessive emphasis upon security and risk issues which result from this antagonism

What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?

It is early days but interest in holding pilots which test the success of new approaches are getting a good reception thus far. This needs to be matched by funding of more projects to make the case irrefutable.

Changeshop

This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: taxi business fueled by renewable energy.

taxi business fueled by renewable energy

green energy livery service that save money and the planet

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elizabeth

Tell us about yourself/your team.

my self and my boyfriend are in school to try and get degrees that will help us start our own taxi business that will help the environment, the poor and disabled by using e-85 fuel i will produce in order to save money to offer a discount to the needy we have both worked for taxis in the past and he is a automotive tech graduate who has also worked for quick service centers

What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?

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Company Country

United States, MA, Worcester County

Primary country where this project is creating social impact

United States, MA, gardner, Worcester County

Additional countries or regions

United States

Industry

Transportation

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The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?

the cost of livery transportation is to high i want to lower cost raise drivers pay all while using renewable fuel that will help our environment

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

use a microfueler made in CA to make e-85 fuel from donated byproducts to use in flex-fuel vehicles to lower cost to customers while raising pay for drivers

The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?

most taxis use regular gas

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.

i would bring back the senior discount for taxi customers in my area as well as add discounts for disabled or poor on my already lower prices for anyone

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 is only one taxi in my town and they stopped senior discounts and charge extra for more then four grocery bags i will not do either

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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.

i have owned a flexfuel vehicle since 2008 and can not get e-85 near so i researched making it found a company that can make it easily yourself with their equipment and i thought about how much money my employer was spending on fuel and thought if they made it how much good could come of that

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

still trying

What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?

i will finish school and hope to find venture capital anyway i can

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

i have talked to the city about codes and my property is not zoned right but i have a site in mind i want to by that will fit nicely and is owned by a family member who will be willing to sell to me

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What is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?

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How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?

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Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.

i have talked to local brewer about by products and they do recycle but if they don't their are others plus i don't need donated byproducts i can still offer discount and save money just not as much by paying for products .

What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?

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PROPOSAL OF PICKUP AND DROP-OFF SERVICE FOR DISABLED

In the upcoming six to eight months we would like to start this project in Mysore city .So we are requesting ChangeMakers to consider this project and help us to execute the same

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Shiva Prakash

Tell us about yourself/your team.

Shiva Prakash M A ,The Managing trustee,
is visually impaired and has completed Post Graduate Degree and is pursuing his PHD. With first hand experience and along with 3 other like-minded people started this trust to serve the visually impaired and the other differently “abled” People.

What makes you an intrapreneur? What are the skills, capabilities, and personality traits that make you an intrapreneur?

Shiva Prakash M A ,The Managing trustee,
During my academic journey I have
come across several challenges during the studies and till date. As a first step PROPOSAL OF PICKUP AND DROP-OFF SERVICE FOR DISABLED Idea got and submitting to help several people like me in and 15 km range of Mysore city.

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Company Country

India, KA, Mysore

Primary country where this project is creating social impact

India, KA, Mysore

Additional countries or regions

Industry

教育

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The Need: What social or environmental problem are you trying to solve?

This Idea of Pick and Drop taken for the Differently abled People who find it difficult to commute to their respective study centres and work in organisation from their home. They have to depend on others help or the respective transport, which are not frequent and the severely disabled
people find it very difficult to reach on time. Many such disheartened people drop their education and job due to non-availability of Transport facility and the Herculiean task of travelling to the study
Centres.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

PROPOSAL OF PICKUP AND DROP-OFF SERVICE FOR DISABLED will help such people to pickup from
their destination and to drop to their respective study centres and vice-versa in around Mysore City 15km range, thus saving their time and energy.

The Solution: Why is this solution innovative for your company and industry?

Our Trust is currentely running different activities for disabled people, Sudents are facing hardships whiile commuting to our organisation . Apart from our students , there are many disabled people who are facing the same problem while commuting in Mysore

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities.

1. Many such Differently Abled people who have discontinued their studies can pursue the same.
2. The tension and botheration of reaching the study centres or work will be easily avoided as they will be guided by the attender.
3.They will be relived of the tension and stress and save lot of time to concentrate on their studies.
4.The guardians or parents will not have he tension whether their
ward reached the destination safely or not.
5.As the trust is doing free service, they will save a lot of time and money on transportation.

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 dont have peers and competitors as of now . However things might change in the future .

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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.

While traveling on a day to day basis in Mysore , I come across many disabled people struggling to travel . I would like to quote an incident at this juncture . In 2009 while crossing the road a blind person met with an accident when a truck ran over him . I witnessed this incident and it has etched in my memory . I dont think I ever be able to forget that incident . That was when I decided that I have to do something to bring about a change and make sure that such incidents dont happen again .

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We have not implemented the solution yet

What is your projected impact over the next 1 to 3 years?

Our initial plan is to serve the disbaled residents in and around the Mysore city . Thereafter we are planning to expand our service to different parts of the state

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Initial expenditure needs to be handled .
Apart from that we need to take care of the recurring expenses including salaries to the drivers and instructors , fuel and the maintainence of vehicles .
We need funds on a regular basis .

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What is the benefit or value you're creating for your business?

Our main aim is to help out the disabled . That is our only motto and desire.

How are you leveraging internal resources (funds, time, knowledge, etc.) to support this initiative?

From local donors we can arrange recurring expenses for this project and our internal resources can be utilized effectively to manage and execute this project

Expand on your answer, explaining the long-term funding and support plan.

Bosch India and Jindal foundations will provide us the current recurring expenses . We hope that they will give us the approval for recurring vehicle expenditure too.

So we are requesting ChangeMakers to consider this project and help us to purchase the vehicle.

Tell us about your partnerships across your company and externally that are key to your project's success.

Providing free computer education for Ranga Rao foundation students with success

What internal support have you gotten for your project? What kind of push-back have you received?

We are ready to bear recurring expenses for this project

support group for carers that have children with challenges

The service i want to offer is more personalised. Where people can come for emotional support, advise, ease of finding specialist equipment and advise.
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Community Companion Program

Our program is peer-centred and based on mutual interests, genuine connections, and authentic understanding as the heart of successful community inclusion.

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Full Citizenship & Mental Health

Our solution is to demythologize mental illness and addictions, returning their expressions and responses to the popular sphere.

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Positive Sexual Health Education for Disabled Youth

This three year pilot project operated within BC Children's Hospital Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine - Youth Health Program will provide: Guidance and Support for Youth with Disabilities or Special Needs to Foster Healthy and Safe Sexual Development. This project will include direct patient and care giver counseling, education and support tool review, reform and development as well as province wide interdisciplinary education and community based education.

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Community Companion Program

Our program is peer-centred and based on mutual interests, genuine connections, and authentic understanding as the heart of successful community inclusion.

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New Horizons Professional Support Services

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Canada, BC, Kamloops

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Canada, BC, Kamloops

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Thompson Okanagan.

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Quality.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

Considering that approximately 1-3% of a population has a developmental disability, it's safe to say that Kamloops has about 3000 individuals living with a developmental disability, not all of whom may be accessing or receiving the services that they need. These individuals are missing out on crucial supports and are often experiencing extreme isolation. The impact of isolation is far reaching, affecting mental and physical health & potentially increasing the likelihood of addictions to deal with the loneliness. This, in turn, may exacerbate dysfunctional behaviours, further alienating the person. At the very least, isolation leaves individuals disconnected and unable to recognize their full potential in life.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Our program is focused on peer support to breakdown the barriers of isolation and to enhance community inclusion. Through on-going training, adults with developmental disabilities are gaining the skills to connect and encourage each other through peer support and mentorship. In addition to supporting community inclusion and advocacy through peer matches, this program will help to tackle the significant aspect of isolation that may be experienced by individuals with diverse disabilities. We respect and value the individual and the experiences they bring. Not only are participants gaining support and accessing resources within the community, they are increasing community awareness.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

In one situation we were able to match a peer, who has some social anxieties and mobility issues requiring a certain level of support out in the community, with a peer companion who was able to successfully offer support in a genuine way (eg. meeting for lunch and a walk or assisting the peer with daily chores such as buying groceries). As a result, we saw one individual experiencing an enjoyable outing with increased social interaction and support, while the other experienced raised self-esteem due to the acknowledgment of skills they didn't know they had or were capable of.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

There are many different organizations within Kamloops supporting adults with developmental disabilities; however, it is coming from a worker-client perspective rather than a genuine peer connection. The Community Companion Program offers the potential for authentic friendships and shared experiences which is a new and innovative idea compared to previous models of inclusion.

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Over the years, New Horizons has seen many changes in the supports and systems offered to adults with diverse abilities. The predominant relationship that exists is that of the worker-client. Although community inclusion workers can offer many supports, the worker-client relationship is different from the authentic understanding that comes from peer mentorship. Recognizing that peer-to-peer support has proven to be successful within other populations in the community, we realized that well-matched peers within this population could be equally as successful. By supporting true friendship and connections, it creates the potential for authentic self-discovery and community integration.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

This is a process which educates, empowers, and enriches lives in our communities. By providing individualized training, it supports individuals to take on the role of one-to-one peer support and advocacy. We are empowering individuals with diverse abilities to: explore options and make decisions; expand friendships, social relationships, and integration within our community; increase self-confidence & sense of belonging; and engage the abilities of all participants to reach their potential as integral members of the community.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

To date, we have had both short- and long-term participants. Individuals have had the opportunity to engage in both one-to-one and group activities. One group activity was a coffee house, which was planned and facilitated by program participants; it was very well received to the point that we had to limit numbers because the turn-out exceeded the space. This program has also supported the creation of a new advocacy group (the previous group, which had been quite active in the area, had disbanded quite some time ago, which left a large gap within the community), providing the opportunity for individuals to take on greater responsibility within the community. Throughout this process, individuals have the opportunity for peer support that is founded on respect, shared responsibility, and mutual enjoyment.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

We see this program promoting greater community inclusion and awareness through peer support. In the next 5 years, we see the creation of a resource and advocacy centre that is being run by the peers themselves with the support of community volunteers and one, possibly two, paid staff. This has to be done in a self-sustaining way by creating a strong program foundation that honours and respects all participants and encourages their shared responsibility in maintaining a healthy and functioning program. We want to encourage the strengths that each person brings to the Community Companion Program and support them in their goals.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

There are a number of barriers that we have already recognized for the continued success of this program. One of the greatest is on-going funding for space and staffing. Other challenges include the varied abilities of participants and the continued support that their relationships may require, whether it is conflict resolution, boundary setting, stress management, etc..
To overcome some of these obstacles, we need to create more partnerships with other organizations within the community, allowing support networks to grow. As the value of the program is recognized, there will be increasing opportunity for funding and financial support. We will need trained staff, whether paid or volunteer, to support this networking and the on-going support of the peer matches and group activities.

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Within 6-months, we will have expanded program awareness & created a strong network of support within the community.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

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Have the advocacy group meeting their goals, which includes promoting social and educational opportunities in Kamloops.

タスク 2:

Expand existing networks & create new partnerships with organizations within the community, increasing awareness & support.

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Create opportunities for peers to fundraise & generate monies to support activities and give them greater program ownership.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Program participants are taking charge of the program and, with support, growing it to better meet their needs.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

We will offer a program network to match peers & to connect community resources (kitchens, transport, resources, advocacy).

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We will have a phone support system.

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Participants will have the opportunity to work together to overcome barriers, using their experiences and the support of staff.

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Currently, we have connected with Fitzwater Services (non-profit) and are looking at ways to fundraise for the program. We have also begun networking with organizations to find ways to access programs that are free or low cost to the peers. ICS offers a community kitchen program that participants can utilize for a fee. ASK Wellness has offered space for us to hold open houses. KSCL may be able to offer us space for evening social events promoted by our advocacy group. We have connected with community living groups within the Interior to organize & share costs for an advocacy conference.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

At this time we want to strengthen and grow the Community Companion Program here in Kamloops. Other areas have expressed interest in creating similar programs using our model; however, we are focused on creating a solid foundation in the Kamloops area before expanding elsewhere.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

We have had amazing support from other organizations already. We have continuing peer referrals for the program. Although we don't currently have enough trained mentors to allow for one-to-one matches for all of the peers, we work within an organization that allows for creativity, so new group activities are being created. As we move from the pilot phase of our program to a more long-term phase, we have been able to adapt and grow from the experiences. Our greatest success is that the program is able to evolve as we learn from the participants and their outcomes as to what works well and what needs to change.

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 see networking with other organization as being a crucial piece to the success of the program. We need to find effective ways to do this with limited time and resources.

Financial Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities

The goal of Accion’s disability inclusion program is for persons with disabilities to enjoy equal and fair access to quality financial products and services.

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Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion

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United States, DC, Washington DC

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Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

In 2012, Accion was named by Philanthropedia as one of the top non-profits in microfinance. An evaluation by a group of 72 experts identified Accion as one of eleven high-impact nonprofits working in the field of international microfinance based on a variety of factors. In 2011, we were named the world’s most effective microfinance organization by the same group.

Accion has been named a top-rated charity by the World Economic Forum, the American Institute of Philanthropy, Charity Navigator, Worth Magazine and the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance. Selected for the fifth consecutive year for its pioneering approaches to poverty alleviation, Accion was awarded the 2008 Social Capitalist Award by Fast Company magazine and the Monitor Group, and was named one of the top 45 organizations “using business excellence to engineer social change.”

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your innovation addresses? Choose up to two

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

650 million people, nearly fifteen percent of humanity, have a disability, and over 80 percent live in developing countries. The vast majority has the capacity to make self-sustaining economic contributions, but find themselves excluded. The self-sufficiency model of microfinance could be essential to bringing financial inclusion to all persons with disabilities. Yet, only 0.5% of microfinance clients come from this underserved community. Additionally, 40% of microfinance clients are expected to acquire a disability by 65. Therefore, microfinance institutions that achieve disability inclusion gain access to an untapped market, improve retention of their current clients and address a compelling social need.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

By lowering the barriers to financial inclusion (often in very low cost ways), millions more persons with disabilities (PWD) can become economically self-sufficient. There have been isolated, small initiatives aimed at increasing financial inclusion for PWD, but not any broad-scale initiatives by a microfinance leader to create a model for disability inclusion that can be replicated globally. This project aims to do just that by: 1) engaging different stakeholders including disabled persons organizations and financial services providers, 2) field-testing Accion’s Roadmap for Inclusion at one microfinance institution in Paraguay (in parallel with implementations in other countries), 3) creating practical tools for MFIs to increase their disability inclusion and 4) sharing tools and finding with both the microfinance and disability fields.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

This initiative will utilize Accion’s Roadmap to Inclusion which distills emerging best practices related to PWD economic empowerment into a pragmatic blueprint for action. The Roadmap categories are: 1) universal design and reasonable accommodation, 2) partnership with disability organizations, 3) human resources policy practices and disability inclusion training, 4) legal framework, 5) technology-enabled inclusion and 6) financial capability.

We will work with Fundación Paraguaya to implement the Roadmap, starting with a current capabilities assessment to determine where Fundación Paraguaya stands today and set goals for each Roadmap category. The assessment tool that is developed and tested will be shared with the microfinance industry.
Based on the findings of the assessment, the project team will develop a customized Disability Action Plan, highlighting and prioritizing inclusion capability gaps and fleshing out the steps that must be taken to address them. The team will also seek to develop two standardized disability inclusion tools to be shared with the global microfinance industry. In phase two of the project, Fundación Paraguaya will begin implementing their Disability Action Plan with the goal of addressing their highest priority inclusion gaps and doubling their clients with disabilities within 24 months.

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?

What makes this effort truly innovative is that there are no direct peers or competitors to our activities. There are some discrete microfinance initiatives serving disabled clients; there are disabled persons organizations looking at self-employment, but there is no global non-profit leader bringing together these perspectives, garnering best practices from both fields and creating a broad, scalable approach that aims at providing financial services to the marginalized poor disabled population.

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On vacation with a cousin who serves as Legal Counsel for the National Federation of the Blind, I was provoked to ask myself whether MFIs were reaching out to persons with disabilities. On doing some research, I learned conclusively that they were not. Providing financial services to this excluded and very vulnerable population had been overlooked. This preliminary finding received further confirmation when I met with leaders from various microfinance non-profits and learned that reaching out to PWD had never been on their agenda. From that point on, it became a calling for me to address this market failure. I have been working single-mindedly on this issue ever since, believing that economic empowerment is key to full participation in civil society for PWD.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

The goal of this initiative is for every person with disability able to participate in the global economy to have that chance – and the support necessary to seize it. This initiative will focus on assisting existing financial institutions to become fully disability accessible and inclusive. This will include addressing physical, attitudinal, and process barriers that impact the disabled as clients as well as employees.

Which barrier(s) to financial inclusion does your solution seek to address? (select all applicable)

Physical and other accessibility obstacles that prevent communities from reaching financial services, The lack of affordable financial products tailored to the needs of underserved and excluded communities,.

If you selected 'other' above, please specify which other barriers to financial inclusion you solution seeks to address:

For which underserved or excluded communities will your solution create access to valuable, affordable, secure and comprehensive financial services?

The excluded community affected by this project are persons with disabilities, including but not limited to, hearing and visually impaired as well as those with physical disabilities. Beginning in Paraguay, our global strategy envisions a world where access to microfinance is the rule not the exception. PWD constitute the largest single vulnerable population in the world and any poverty reduction strategy must target them. In Paraguay, there are many low-cost solutions to exclusion that are being implemented from putting in ramps and doing sensitivity trainings. The biggest barrier to change is entrenched attitudes that view PWD as incapable of taking care of themselves and participating in economic society. India has a very large PWD population and this is the next market we plan to enter.

Could your solution work in other geographies or regions? If so, where?

The disability inclusion program is absolutely designed to work in other geographies and regions – it is exactly this scalability and replicability that makes the project innovative and impactful. The program will fine-tune the Roadmap to Inclusion, develop tools for implementation of the Roadmap strategies and share all of this work with our colleagues in microfinance and disability globally with the aim of having the program embraced and implemented as widely as possible.

Built into the Roadmap are steps that will account for differences between regions, countries and types of financial services provider. For example, the legal context for disability inclusion strategies will be examined in each country of implementation to determine obstacles, opportunities and necessary adaptations in approach.

If your solution is dramatically successful, how will things be different in 10 years?

Persons with disabilities who have a desire and ability to be economically active can tap into the power of financial services to unleash their potential and build self-sufficiency. 5% of all microfinance clients will be PWD – up from the current 0.5%. Clients are satisfied with the quality and accessibility of microfinance services they receive. MFIs embrace the double-bottom line (social and financial) benefits of serving PWD and are disability-friendly. Disability inclusion becomes a practical option for MFIs with the testing and further development of implementation processes, tools and knowledge sharing. The results of the project encourage MFIs to reach out to PWD in their communities.

What will have had to have changed to make this happen?

Very broadly, in order for systemic changes to occur, MFIs need to view persons with disabilities as an important, valuable market segment. This change in mentality and orientation will be brought about by proving the business case of providing financial services to PWD (the moral and legal case is already strong). It is similar to the challenge facing MFIs when they first started serving the bottom of the pyramid – traditional financial service providers did not think the poor were credit-worthy, that they had the capacity for self-employment and disciplined finance. In order to empower the self-employment of the currently neglected disabled poor, it needs to be done in a way that is financially self-sustaining or it will never reach any significant scale.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Accion has pushed PWD financial inclusion to a place on the agenda at microfinance conferences. This is an important part of our work because attitudinal barriers are the single biggest obstacle to change. We have presented at the Microcredit Summit, the UN, the State Department, the European Microfinance Platform, to name a few. We brought MFIs together with disability organizations in India and have identified a number of MFIs in India who would like to work with us on implementing the Roadmap. We published an important white paper - A New Access Frontier: Persons with Disabilities. We disseminate our latest findings on the CFI blog. Finally, the Smart Campaign has enshrined non-discrimination as one of its key client protection principles.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

Fundación Paraguaya will double the PWD that it serves. We will work with them to achieve the following: 1) PWD have full access to Fundación Paraguay’s built environments, products and services, 2) we develop close relationships with Disabled Persons Organizations, 3) staff has awareness of rights and economic viability of PWD, 4) laws related to disability inclusion and economic citizenship are understood and reflected in operations, 5) assistive technologies are employed to fully empower PWD staff and clients, 6) current or prospective PWD clients have the educational support they need to utilize financial products wisely.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

- Risk: Not finding the right disability organization partner(s); Overcome: spend time to identify key leaders.
- Risk: Project perceived as low priority for Fundación Paraguaya staff beyond core team; Overcome: Have project manager in place and stick with Roadmap timelines.
- Risk: We “bite off more than we can chew”; Overcome: Customize Roadmap for local circumstances / priorities.
- Risk: Disability inclusion approach we forge in Paraguay does not impact the broader commercial microfinance industry, e.g. our implementation roadmap and tools prove difficult to adapt to other markets and circumstances; Overcome: Write up and disseminate our findings to MFIs.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

The Roadmap is a plan with 7 steps. The first 6 months will focus on assessment, accessibilty and HR.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Assessment of Fundación Paraguaya Disability Inclusion- Assess current state of practice, draft implementation plan.

タスク 2:

Change Physical Accessibility- Implement changes to MFI branches, products and services; create access to all information.

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Human Resources- Staff sensitivity training to overome attitudinal barriers; hire two PWD to demonstrate genuine commitment.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

We will have financial outreach and education tailored to encouraging self-employment of disabled at the bottom-of-the-pyramid.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Legal- Examine national legal framework and bring practices at Fundación Paraguaya to compliance.

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Technology- All relevant existing and emerging assistive technologies are employed to fully empower PWD staff and clients.

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Client Education- All PWD who are current or prospective clients have educational support to utilize financial products wisely.

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The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion is an action research center that works on behalf of the microfinance industry. Fundación Paraguaya is a leading MFI in Paraguay that reaches 44,000 clients (at end of 2011) with microcredit and other services. Handicap International has a track record in PWD economic inclusion that includes 60 related projects spanning the globe. They will provide thought leadership and on the ground delivery for our institutional training programs.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?

We will reach out to the entire financial services community, but our initial efforts will target microfinance institutions to best leverage our expertise and industry relationships. We will target Paraguay and India first, as these are markets with high levels of disabled poor and are locations where we have strong local relationships. Within the disabled community we will focus first on people with physical disabilities, including but not limited to, visual and hearing impaired.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

The program has had incubation support from Accion International both in terms of funding support and strong programmatic guidance. This has afforded the initiative time to understand the needs in the market, the barriers to addressing these needs and innovations that can help break down these barriers. Accion has worked closely with MFIs for the past 50 years and has strong local technical expertise and relationships to help successfully implement the program. There is strong commitment to serving the working poor with disabilities by the local implementing partner, Fundación Paraguaya.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

The project is designed to bring together worlds of microfinance and disability and, as such, there is much cross-training that must occur. The program is also designed to disseminate findings widely to leverage impact and, therefore, we aim to share research, tools and lessons learned.

FIT: Community inclusion, life skills and recreation for people with multiple challenges including developmental disabilities.

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John Howard Society of the Lower Mainland

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Canada, BC, Vancouver

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Canada, BC, Vancouver

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver.

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

We know a man who was homeless, can be violent, has fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), and has been in prison. Would you rather this person was living in a homeless shelter in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, or back in prison? Either he is prone to a criminal lifestyle or is costing more around $100,000 a year in a correctional institution. Clearly, these are no options.

Individuals with multiple issues need agencies that can focus on more than one issue at a time, with wide training and experience. Someone who may have a criminal background can scare off health professionals, and people familiar with the criminal justice system do not always have sufficient training or experience in developmental disabilities or mental health concerns.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

A low barrier drop-in centre building positive relationships to produce change is what we’ve seen work: skill development, education, recreation and commitment without judgment through projects, programs, workshops, outings and one-on-one time with well-trained staff in a safe, accessible space.

Our attitude as service providers is everything. Commitment to people is what elicits change. Not reacting to the disability, mental health concern or other issues, means treating the person as a person, not a malady. It means not addressing one part of their life, but all aspects, and how those parts interact. It means firm boundaries and no judgment. It means there is no specific program of how to interact with people dealing with concurrent disorders since every single person is different and unique—programming could be anything from a group outing to the zoo, to a workshop on creating a resumé or a lesson on oral hygiene. It must meet the needs of the individuals who walk in the door.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Our understanding of the many barriers and challenges—and their combination—faced by marginalized individuals with a developmental disability means that we know how to provide effective “wrap around” support.

One of our staff went to a housing facility to meet someone who had been referred to our organization. When she got there, a ruckus was being made by a very loud and verbally aggressive man, who turned out to be the person she was there to meet. He turned around and said “hi” and she smiled and said: “I’m very pleased to meet you.” She did not respond to, or acknowledge, his behaviour. He, in turn, since that day, treated her with respect. This foundation has enabled him to succeed in maintaining more permanent housing with us after living in the streets of the Downtown Eastside.

The primary activities involved in our project start with individual support plans (what assistance will be most effective?) and include career planning (using specialized training), employment preparation workshops (resumés, interviewing), life skills workshops (budgeting, hygiene), discussion groups, outings, art therapy, cooking classes, yoga and fitness, games, and music.

Inclusion, inclusion, inclusion; providing new opportunities, experiences, and choice to people who have gone without, finding something they’re interested in, is what weaves them into the neighbourhood and community fabric.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

While many organizations work with marginalized individuals, we are unique. We cross diagnostic boundaries. Too many organizations and government agencies police those boundaries (“This is what we can’t do...”). No matter what is going on in a person’s life, they still have positive changes they can make. Our large training budget covers training requests from staff to cover the things they think they need, which means that as an organization, we have experience in everything from Non Violent Crisis Intervention and how to work with sexual offenders and the impacts of aging on someone with Down syndrome.

We believe in pulling people from the Downtown Eastside to get their life on a better track.

The Elizabeth Fry Society of does similar work to JHSLM, but focus on women.

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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.

John Howard, a prison reformer in 18th century England, was held prisoner in France. He was later in charge of a prison and was shocked to learn of its conditions, eventually traveling almost 70,000 km to fight against deplorable prison conditions elsewhere.

Reverend J.D. Hobden incorporated our organization in 1932. His life and considerable talents were dedicated to people who had made bad choices and were now making positive ones. He said in 1941: “It has long been held by enlightened statesmen and reformers that the methods of treatment of prisoners within a country is the index of standards of its civilization.” He suggested that Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin—all ex-prisoners—may have turned against society because of how they were treated.

The current staff have all had “Aha!” moments of greater or lesser impact. For one person, this was a relative committing suicide just before a law changed that would have permitted him more freedom—a senseless death.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

We are trying to achieve a few things at once: 1) a better life for people who face more or less severe challenges; 2) change perceptions about the capacity of people with those challenges; and 3) develop innovative ways to improve our communities, one person at a time.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Community Living British Columbia has increased the amount of contracts with us by almost 50% in the past year alone. Many individuals referred to us have health or mental health concerns, and may have been impacted by criminal justice in some way (other aspects of this organization deal more directly with people impacted by criminal justice). Our attitude, passionate staff, and thorough training have been making an impact recognized both by clients and their families and professionals in our field.

We deal in lives changed, one at a time. We work with individuals with extremely troubling pasts but who are proud to say that since they’ve been with us, they have been doing really well, despite lingering addictions and mental health issues. When people have crossed a line with us, we have remained firm on boundaries, while assisting them to figure out what they will do next—people we’ve had to evict have written us afterwards to tell us how good a job we’re doing.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

50 individuals with developmental disabilities being trained in Life’s Work Implicit Career Search (“an innovative, purposeful approach to career exploration and planning”) with half of them maintaining sustainable employment afterwards; 100 individuals in stable, safe, and secure housing; increased, measurable levels of independence, coping skills, and general life skills.

There will always be individuals marginalized by their barriers. The change we want to see is an attitude of inclusion so that we as a society, can say that we’ve done everything we could to enhance the lives of all of our citizens. We want to see the marked impact of our approach on all levels of government through the contracts we receive and the experience of our contacts of what we do.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

As with many, if not all, not-for-profit societies, the inconsistency of funding is the biggest threat to the continuity and stability of the people we support through our work. It is a continuous endeavour of general fundraising, applying to foundations and governments that will ensure the success of our project. A secondary barrier is remaining flexible to innovation while maintaining the most effective methods of support.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Have the reported independence and Adaptive Functioning Index of at least 10 individuals increase.

タスク 2:

Facilitate at least one workshop per month, on a variety of topics from employment to hygiene to something fun.

タスク 3:

Ensure the regular and smooth operations of the facility to ensure best uses of all resources for sustainability.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

New, sustainable employment for 5 individuals.

タスク 2:

A quantifiable increase both in reported levels of independence and functioning, and in referrals to our program.

タスク 3:

Secured funding for the following year.

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Since 1932, JHSLM has worked in partnership with other organizations in the areas of cultural awareness, employment, education social skills, leisure activities, housing, vocational placements, volunteer work and life skills training. Our biggest supporters are the Correctional Service of Canada and Community Living British Columbia, though we are funded by other parts of tthe municipal, provincial and federal governments.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

While we do not have the capacity to implement this project idea across the country, we do have more than 60 affiliate John Howard Society organizations across the country each of which have their own list of distinct programs. There is certainly a great and widespread need to assist populations of individuals who have not reached their full potential and who are prey to their unaddressed barriers.

However, if we say we care about all people and all citizens are equal, then our approach can find traction anywhere current systems of managing marginalized people have proved inadequate.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

Flexible, well-trained, and dedicated staff find themselves backed up in their day-to-day work with our clients by the organization. The cohesion of staff and senior management is uniquely harmonious. We all want to have an impact on peoples’ lives. The open dialogue and fruitful exchange among all staff translates into excellent communication and consistency of approach.

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Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project

Skills building volunteer peer support for vulnerable persons with disabilities applying for provincial disability benefits.

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Kelly

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団体名

Together Against Poverty Society

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Victoria

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Victoria

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver Island.

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

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5 年超

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Equity.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

Person with disabilities in British Columbia must complete a 23-page application to receive the provincial benefits to which they are entitled. The application requires a personal statement, a doctor's assessment and a third-party assessor portion. This onerous application process acts as a significant barrier to many people in need, especially vulnerable persons with disabilities who are experiencing mental health concerns, low-literacy levels, addictions or other issues. TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy project has assisted more than 3000 people to apply for provincial disability benefits and currently has a three-week waitlist before an applicant can see a volunteer. The demand for this service continues to grow unabated.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

TAPS innovative solution to this demand is to train, mentor and supervise peer volunteers so they can assist persons with disabilites with the onerous PWD application. This solution is unique and innovative in its very nature; providing services to persons with disabilities by peer advocates while at the same time enhancing the employability of persons with disabilities through the services they are providing. TAPS values inclusion and recognizes that persons with disabilities bring a unique perspective to this volunteer position, especially those peer volunteers who have had to go through the application process themselves. The VDAP volunteer position is a challenging one that allows volunteers to gain extensive and significant career skills. This peer-based, innovative solution to addressing the barriers inherent in the PWD application has proven success and must be expanded to meet the need in the community.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project has made a significant difference in the lives of more than 3000 people. The project has significant benefits for both volunteers and clients. In effort to foster inclusion, persons with disabilities will be recruited as volunteers, and will gain extensive and significant career skills which foster strong employment and educational assets. Volunteer advocates participate in a comprehensive training regime that includes six hours of in-class instruction and three 'shadow' shifts where they observe more experienced volunteers. After the training is complete and the volunteer feels comfortable and competent, they begin assisting their own clients with the 23-page application for persons with disabilities benefits. Persons with disabilities are supported in successfully acquiring equitable benefits that contribute to better housing and health outcomes. This support is especially important for clients with low-literacy levels as without this support they will simply fall through the cracks. It is also vital for people with mental health, brain injury and/or addiction issues who would not otherwise be able to complete the application. Receiving persons with disabilities benefits greatly improves the quality of life for a person living with disabilities.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

There are no other organizations on Soutern Vancouver Island that train, mentor and supervise peer volunteers to assist people applying for provincial person with disabilities benefits. There are some social service providers who have staff that will assist applicants, and will send their staff to TAPS for our comprehensive training. However, the majority of those organizations who assist people to apply for PWD benefits have a very specific client group for whom they will provide this service, for example AIDS Vancouver Island can only assist people with HIV/AIDS. TAPS focus on recruiting, training and supervising volunteers who are themselves persons living with disabilities, makes our service unique.

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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.

The application for provincial persons with disabilities benefits was changed significantly in 2003. The new application caused hardship for applicants and wreaked havoc on social service providers who desperately tried to assist people with this new and extremely onerous application. TAPS legal advocates found themselves unable to keep up with the constant requests for this time-consuming process and yet, were acutely aware that one-on-one assistance with the application was desperately needed. Volunteers began to offer to help, but required training to do so effectively. TAPS board and staff had their “aha” moment when they realized that if we trained volunteers to assist persons with disabilities to apply we could significantly increase the overall capacity of the organization; TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project was born. Over the past 7 years, TAPS has worked diligently to improve the training provided so that it is effective and responsive to volunteers needs.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project has three main goals. The first is to provide persons with disabilities with knowledgeable and effective support as they complete the application for provincial persons with disabilities benefits. The second is to provide volunteers with the opportunity to gain extensive and significant career skills, such as writing, interviewing, supportive counseling, computer proficiency, policy and legislation navigation and interpretation, all of which foster strong employment and educational assets. The third and final goal is to increase the participation of peer volunteers within the project, thereby enhancing community engagement and action for persons with disabilities.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Since VDAP was established in 2006, project volunteers have assisted more than 3000 people with their application for provincial persons with disabilities benefits. Based on VDAP’s success rate of 80%, more than 2300 persons with disabilities are receiving the benefits to which they are entitled and who may not have received these benefits if they applied on their own.Provincial persons with disabilities benefits can be life-changing, as recipients receive a 50% increase in monthly income in addition to health and other benefits.TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project has also had a significant impact on the lives of its volunteers. More than 100 volunteers have gained extensive job related skills which have enabled them to move on to exciting career and educational opportunities. One of the most exciting, unintended consequences of the VDAP project is the desire from those who have been assisted by the project to participate in the project. We would like to increase that number.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

Over the next five years, TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project will assist more than 3000 people to apply for persons with disabilities benefits and will train more than 150 volunteers. What we did over the past 7 years we aim to do in 5 years. We also aim to double the percentage of volunteers who are persons with disabilities actively volunteering with the project. We will do targeted advertising and recruit through organizations who work with persons with disabilities. Supporting opportunities for persons with disabilities is a key impact and goal of VDAP.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

To be successful in assisting more than 3000 people to apply for persons with disabilities benefits, TAPS must have a qualified Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project Coordinator who can train, mentor and supervise the many volunteers required to meet this demand. TAPS also needs the appropriate space, office supplies and computer access required to accommodate all of the volunteers and clients involved in the project. The biggest barrier may be not getting the funding required to run this vital, cost efficient project.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

20 more volunteers were recruited and trained, 8 of whom were persons with disabilities. 300 ppl were assisted to apply for PWD.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Conduct a focus group with current VDAP volunteers to determine how we might reach more volunteers living with disabilities.

タスク 2:

Advertise VDAP volunteer positions to organizations who do employment or volunteering programming for persons with disabilities.

タスク 3:

Train, mentor and supervise volunteers as they assist people to apply for persons with disabilities benefits.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

40 volunteers were recruited and trained,16 of whom will be persons with disabilities. 600 ppl were assisted to apply for PWD.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Conduct 6-month check-in focus group with the new volunteers to determine how we reach more volunteers living with disabilities.

タスク 2:

Advertise VDAP volunteer positions to organizations who do employment or volunteering programming for persons with disabilities.

タスク 3:

Advertise VDAP volunteer positions to organizations who do employment or volunteering programming for persons with disabilities.

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TAPS has been providing service to low-income people in Greater Victoria for 23 years and has developed deep and significant partnerships with virtually all social service providers in this area.VDAP is especially valued by organizations in Greater Victoria because the application is so time-consuming and the need so prevelant; service providers are grateful there is a place with competent people who will assist with the process.In addition,VDAP regularly trains staff from other organizations,such as Beacon Community Services, Victoria Disability Resource Center and Cool-aid’s REES program.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

VDAP currently recruits volunteers from the University of Victoria’s School of Social Work and Faculty of Law and also advertises with Volunteer Victoria. TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project is widely known and as a result, clients are referred to us from organizations all over the city. The Ministry of Social Development is our largest referral source.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

TAPS operates in an accessible, convenient location in downtown Victoria, BC. Due to the fact that we have been providing high quality legal advocacy services for people accessing income assistance and provincial persons with disabilities benefits for more than two decades, we are uniquely positioned to expand this successful and innovative project

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

At this point a financial investment is the most important component required to ensure the successful expansion of TAPS Volunteer Disability Advocacy Project. Once funding is secured we would begin to advertise for peer volunteers and then train and mentor them so they can begin to assist people with their provincial persons with disabilities application.

Transitioning Young Adults with disabilities towards Employment

Provide person-centered employment supports to over-aged year students with disabilites in the Surrey/Delta School Districts to reach their employment goals.

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Jaret

St.Andrassy

団体の

団体名

Milieu Family Services Inc.

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Surrey

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver.

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

5 年超

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成長(試験運営を続けながら拡大を開始している)

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1~5 年

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

Youth with disabilities need intentional transitional planning that supports and prepares young adults to reach their employment goals.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Provide person-centered employment supports to young adults who attend the SSD36 in their over-aged year. The focus will be on ensuring each young adult’s transitional planning includes a comprehensive employment discovery process, development of a vocational profile which includes, vocational themes, engaging in community employer research including, employer tours and informational interviews, participation in employment assessments and support in the creation of job proposals. This formalized plan will highlight the student’s strengths, develop work skills, engage stakeholders, and bridge employment from high school to adult life.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Each one of our Job Developers will work 1:1 with BASES teachers and SEAs from different schools in the capacity of a “mentor".
Below is an outline of the necessary steps to be taken.
1. Intake
This is the initial meeting; we will gather information from the youth.
2. Development of Vocational Profile
The profile contains certain key information and how to use the document.
3. Participation Agreement
All youth and parent / guardians must sign.
4. Discovery
This process will help us gain a better understanding of the Job Seeker. We will uncover such things as transferable skills, abilities, needs and learning styles.
5. Job Seeker Profile
This is a more practical version of a resume.
6. Vocational Themes
The Vocational Themes will provide a great launch point to start the customized job search.
7. Tours / Informational Interviews
We will tour and perform Informational Interviews on targeted community based businesses that match the Job Seekers Vocational Themes, skills, abilities and interests.
8. Situational Assessments
Assessments are a shortened more focused “Work Experience” that take place in targeted business in the community.
9. Re – Evaluation of the Discovery and Themes
This is a good time to “check in” and determine if the path we have laid out is still effective. If it is not, this is a time to re-visit the discovery process again and re-establish some new employment themes.
10. Job Proposal

11. Fading will work with the youth to become fully independent in the community and at their place of employment.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

Marketplace: Many local agencies provide employment supports however, in 2011/12 Milieu took the leap to explore how to address the needs of transitioning young adults towards engaging in employment as part of their transition planning process while in highschool; assiting in circumventing the possibility of service provider waitlists, high school drop out, and limited CLBC funding.

Milieu has already engaged in this project unfunded for one year. Due to the positive outcomes from this project in 2011/12, Surrey School District 36 and Milieu have chosen to maintain the partnership in order to continue bridging the gaps in transitioning for youth leaving high school and entering adulthood.

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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.

The idea for the introduction of Customized Employment into the Surrey School District was first generated two years ago as the need to bridge the gap in services between high school and adult services. Youth graduate from high school at age 18 yet they are not eligible for CLBC services until they are 19. As our services within Customized Employment grew teachers began inquiring as to how they could implement such a program in the schools to help teach youth the skills needed to secure employment. We realized that creating a foundation within the system of school support could significantly assist youth in their transition and provide them with invaluable tools that would serve them in the next phase of their life. We contacted the Surrey School District and facilitated a collaborative process in which we volunteered our services in a pilot project which was extremely successful.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

Milieu’s Transition towards Employment project aims to engage local School district Teachers in the Surrey School District, Community partners, Paraprofessionals in the development of a formalized transition plan that will support the future employment needs of adolescent learners with disabilities as they transition from secondary school to adulthood.
We believe the development of a formalized transition plan that focuses on enriching and developing the strengths of the individual specific to their work interest area, paired with an extended time allotment for hands on experiences through work situational assessments, relationship building and family engagement, will increase the ability for these students to gain and successfully maintain employment in adulthood.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

During our collaborative project with the Surrey School District we worked with a total of 12 schools. We facilitated three Cohorts and spent 9 weeks within each school. We worked with a total of 17 students over the course of the 27 weeks. Of those students 100% of them had a Discovery, 81% had Employment Themes, and 60% had Situational Assessments. Two youth found community employment; we believe that this is small in number largely in part to the short amount of time that we were able to spend in each school due to the timeline of 9 weeks. With a longer timeframe we believe that we will successfully be able to help a larger number of youth find meaningful work in the community. The youth we did work with were able to identify strengths, preferences, attributes, and needs that they have with regards to employment which will assist them in their future matching to a employment setting that they would be successful at.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

We project that job developers will have a regular place in high schools helping facilitate the search for employment among youth in transition. We foresee less angst amongst youth in their 18th and 19th year as they will have a network of support to rely on and a positive outlook of their future through having a viable way to enter the workforce and becoming more financially independent

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Lack of a formalized funded structure – we are planning to invite MCFD and CLBC to participate in our SSD36 & Milieu joint steering committee to consider the impact and potential of the second of the pilot project.
Time – ensuring structure and working outcomes that are realistic to both Milieu and the SSD36

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

1. Meeting of partners committed to program – renewal of Memorandum of Understanding for the 2012/13 school year

タスク 2:

2. Information session held at Surrey School District High school directed towards BASES teachers that have opted to participate

タスク 3:

3. Milieu will provide two Job Developers to work 1:1 with BASES teachers and supporting SEAs from 2 different schools every 4 m

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

1. We will outline and mentor the SD36 teacher and SEA on the Customized Employment process. We will ensure that every step is d

タスク 2:

2. Establish a steering committee with School District, Agency, MCFD & CLBC members

タスク 3:

3. Measure the impact of students who have graduated high school with respect to continued employment and attitudes of community

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Our current and only partnership in this project has been the Surrey School District. We are currently targeting other populations such as the FASD population specifically with in the Surrey School Districts.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

We are currently targeting other populations such as the FASD population specifically within the Surrey School Districts. Under the current system, many students living with FASD do not meet ministry requirements for CLBC or PSI support because their cognitive and adaptive scores. These students do not have the needed support structure in place to assist them in their transition from school to work, and due to their unique needs locating and maintaining employment is a challenge for them. These students are at risk of falling between the cracks in our current system.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

Milieu has been offering (in-kind) supports such as, two unionized job developers, transportation & mileage, office space and the supplies necessary to create an individualized employment “Discovery & Assessment” binder for each student involved in the program and admin time for meetings and collection and compliment of outcomes data .
Surrey School District has provided (in-kind) teacher release time, office space for meetings, planning time and SEA program 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

Bringing reform in Lives of Blind community - Schools for the blind

場所

Jalandhar
India
31° 19' 33.654" N, 75° 34' 34.2588" E

1.Rashtriya Andh Vidyala ,Adress-14, Sudhama Vihar,Khambra Road,144014,Jalandhar, Punjab,ph-9814218455
2.Girls training Center for the blind, Adress-Vasant Viharcolony,144003,Jalandhar,Punjab,ph-01812272657
Apart from education in above schools, Mr Atma also engages the students in sports and have won 11 prizes from pujab state competitions.they hold a India level sports tournament in April every year.He also prepares the blind youth for various activities like candle making,cane chair making,cooking and provides music training as well.

Capturistas Sobre Ruedas

Capturista Sobre Ruedas existe para:
Generar empleo para personas con discapacidad,
A través del teletrabajo.
Al digitalizar los grandes archivos gubernamentales de México.

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Alejandro

García Fernández

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団体名

Capturistas Sobre Ruedas

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Mexico, ZAC, Guadalupe

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Mexico, ZAC, Zacatecas, Guadalupe

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Male

団体の種類:

未登録の

運営期間

1 年未満

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Capturistas Sobre Ruedas

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アイデア(スタートする準備を整えている)

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アイデア段階だが間もなく始動する予定

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Estamos atacando dos problemas:

* Por un lado existen grandes archivos gubernamentales en papel como el Registro Civil, Cátalogos de Propiedad, Testamentos que necesitan ser digitalizados para ser más eficientes en su consulta, protegerlos de incendios y otros desastres naturales.

*Por otro lado las personas con discapacidad, tienen índices de desempleo mucho mayores que los de la población en general. Debido a que las ciudades o transportes públicos no son accesibles, a que las oficinas y centros de trabajo no están adaptados para recibirlo, etc.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

* Fotografiar los archivos gubernamentales y
* hacer que personas con discapacidad desde sus casas los procesen, capturen, corrijan e indexen para generar así bases de datos electrónicas.
* Las cuales, serán fáciles de buscar, respaldar, etc.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Normalmente al digitalizar un archivo suceden los siguients pasos:
1. Se escanean los documentos o expedientes.
2. Se pasan por un proceso de OCR (Optical Character Recognition) que traduce la imagen a texto.
3. Se usa el texto para crear la base de datos electrónica.

Sin embargo OCR no es muy confiable su efectvidad va de un 85% a un 40% dependiende de la calidad del documento original. Por ello es necesario que un humano, una secretaria o capturista corrija los textos de salida de OCR.

La idea con Capturista Sobre Ruedas, es que personas desde su casa utilicen el internet para ser esos capturistas que revisarán y correjirán la salida del programa OCR. Esto aprovechando las tendencias mundiales del Teletrabajo y el Crowdsourcing.

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?

Existen otras empresas en México (como Systech) que ya se dedican a la digitalización de archivos gubernamentales.
Estas tienen mucha experiencia ya que lo han hecho al menos desde el año 1998 cuando inicio el esfuerzo por capturar el Registro Civil de todos los estados del país.
Esto les permite ya tener procesos muy definido y contactos con los clientes potenciales.

Sin embargo, creo que Capturista Sobre Ruedas tiene dos ventajas para lidiar con estas empresas más experimentadas:

1. Al favorecer la inclusión de personas con discapacidad estamos apoyando una política de estado de incluir a los grupos vulnerables.

2. Podríamos en realidad ser socias de las empresas más establecidas al subarrendar nuestra mano de obra, lo cual nos cambia de competencia a socios.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Hasta el momento como aún estoy en la etapa de idea el impacto ha sido limitado. Hasta el momento se trata de mi tesina de maestría:

Applying Crowdsourcing and Human-Computation Paradigms to a Software Project

La cual fue bien recibida y espero pronto prestarla en un congreso internacional.

Sin embargo ya estoy trabajand en un prototipo para un solo cliente y una solo persona con discapacidad para distribuir el trabajo.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

Dar empleo a 35 personas con discapacidad motriz en distintos grados.
Que desde su casa podrán realizar el trabajo lo cual les dará acceso a mejor niveles de bienestar.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

La variabilidad de los proyectos:
* La digitalización de archivos gubernamentales se hace por licitación,
* no se licita todos los años.
* nada garantiza que nosotros ganemos esas licitaciones.

Planeo enfrentarlos con un enfoque de administración de riesgos:
1. participar en todas las licitaciones de digitalización de todos los estados del país. Para así no poner todos los huevos en una sola canasta.
2. En aquellas licitaciones que no ganemos, buscar con las empresas ganadoras nosotros subarrendarles la mano de obra de captura.
3. Buscar contratos de mantenimiento. Es decir, contiuamente estan entrando más documentos a estos archivos por ello es necesario que continuamente se estén digitalizando más documentos.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Es iniciar operaciones de captura con un proyecto pequeño que involucre como máximo a 10 capturistas.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Desarrollar el sistema que repartirá el trabajo entre los capturistas.

タスク 2:

Tener el primer contrato de colabaración o de arrendamiento de mano de obra con una empresa que ya esté digatalizando.

タスク 3:

Reclutar a las personas con discapacidad que se convertirán en Capturistas Sobre Ruedas

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Tener una plantilla de 20 capturistas y proyectos de captura en al menos 3 estados del país.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Buscar empresas de captura en estados de la republica mexicana y asociarnos con ellas.

タスク 2:

Participar en al menos 3 licitaciones de diferentes estados.

タスク 3:

Reclutar a las personas con discapacidad necesarias hasta llegar a 20

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.

Mi hermano trabajaba en el Tribunal Superior de Justicia y veía como todos los expedientes se iban a bodega llamada archivo general y quería hacer un sistema para capturarlos.
Años después yo estaba trabajando en una empresa que necesitaba capturistas, sin embargo el salario era bajo y tenían problemas para reclutarlos. Ellos dijeron: "La gente se queja de que no hay empleo y cuando hay no quieren trabajar!" mi respuesta fue: "No, más bien por el salario que pueden ofrecer la gente no puede trabajar. Por un sueldo de $3,500 pesos gastar camión, almuerzo, etc. no es posible" En ese momento me imaginé que si una persona con discapacidad fuera a la entrevista no podría ni subir los escalones. ni subirse al camión que la llevara a la oficina y de ahí surgió la idea:
Que personas con discapacidad capturarán desde su casa lo cual les permitirá tener un ingreso, a la empresa le será eficiente en costos y el cliente tendrá su archivo digitalizado.

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Actualmente he hablado con http://softlogik.mx/ quienes ya se encuentran en un proyecto de captura que involucra a 35 capturistas y sí les gustaría sub-contratar a la mano de obra de Capturista Sobre Ruedas.

Esta es la primera de muchas alianzas que espero hacer con una empresa por estado de la república.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Puedo ayudar en asuntos de tecnología tengo amplia experiencia en desarrollo de aplicaciones web.
Además tengo un amplio panorama de las nuevas tecnologías que podrían servir a una nueva empresa.
Y por último experiencia de primera mano en teletrabajo y crowdsourcing.

Community Asset Mapping ~ Enhancing the Social Inclusion of all Citizens in the cities of Surrey/Delta

Self Advocates will engage with local citizens, formal/informal groups and municipalities in creating a Community Asset Map of the cities of Surrey and Delta.

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Milieu Family Services Inc

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団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Surrey

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Surrey/Delta

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver.

団体の種類:

企業

運営期間

5 年超

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

Need : Empower Self Advocates to lead a community development project that looks at the Surrey/Delta communities from an asset perspective, recognizing commonality and uniting people around a positive identity. Self Advocates will lead a process of mapping assets within these communities that can and will enhance the inclusion of people with disabilities, with the emphasis being strengthening the connectedness of all citizens.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Solution: Self Advocate lead, engage with like-minded Inclusion Focused Citizens, Businesses and Municipalities in creating a Community Asset Map of the micro communities of Surrey and Delta. We believe such a project will provide a platform to enhance the engagement and inclusion of all citizens. The project's short-term goal will be through an Asset Based Mapping project, identify people, places and things that are considered important/meaningful that could be used to leverage inclusion and connectedness of persons with disabilities in Surrey/Delta. Our long-term goal is to create asset mapping tools that provide a powerful starting point for community members, municipalities, and formal/informal groups to engage in future strength-based planning processes for enhancing the social inclusion of all citizens.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Model:
We are proposing
• To collect an inventory of all the good things about the Surrey and Delta communities using strategies such as, Roving Listener (PAR, Participatory Action Research), Photo-Visioning Mapping and Video-based Mapping.
• We aim to discover the reasons why people place value on the assets in these communities.
• Lead by Self Advocates who will collaborate and strategize with other like-minded citizens, families, municipalities, formal/informal groups, businesses and community leaders about how to build on local community assets in order to sustain and enhance them for the future.
• Ensure the community asset mapping tool is a participatory planning process that is lead by Self Advocates who will be supported to engage with a diverse amount of citizens in exploring the assets within the physical and social environments of their communities.
• Create a concrete output – a map, either in paper or web based format, which can be incorporated into formal and/or informal community planning processes.
• Ensure an “assets based” philosophy is utilized in all of the community mapping processes; rather than focus on problems or deficiencies, focus on identifying the community’s capacities and assets, including those of its residents, and then use these assets to build a long-term action plan.
• Use the mapping as an entry point for engaging citizens in different planning contexts such as, formal and informal groups, municipal planning and actions that individual citizens can engage in that contribute towards more inclusive Surrey/Delta community.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

Marketplace:
Many groups and agencies provide a list of activities and/or develop programs that are available to individuals with developmental disabilities. The lists provided are generally focused on the formal resources available with little to no information on the informal and non-resource based groups and clubs that exsist; which in fact can often be the best way for people to connect with others. We feel our idea will highlighting a variety of community assets both formal and informal, focusing on the possibilities of inclusion that already exsist and working to leverage these "inclusion gems" for future commmunity development.

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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.

Founding Story:
We feel the difference maker in many success stories has been centered on finding individual connectedness in community that was reflective of each person’s ideal conditions for inclusion. Our thought is through engaging in a discovery-based community asset mapping project the citizens of Surrey and Delta would become better prospectors of the multiple opportunities for inclusion and connectedness. Lead by Self Advocates, we believe an asset based mapping of our communities will engage a diverse group of citizens to find and celebrate the community niches and gifts and mapping the many possibilities that will enhance the inclusion and connectedness of all citizens.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

Describe the goal of this initiative: what are we trying to achieve?
Lead by Self Advocates from Surrey/Delta who will engage with citizens and groups who are champions for inclusion in developing a vision for their community, and to utilize creativity to imagine the ideal community conditions for inclusion. Incorporate stories, pictures, words and video into an Asset Mapping Guide to Enhance Community Inclusion and showcase the community inclusion asset information collected at public information sessions.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

What has been the impact of our solution to date?
To date, asset mapping has been used as a powerful tool to identify resources that can support the enhancement of social inclusion. It assists in the future mapping of strategies with the natural strengths that already exist in communities. Asset mapping has proven to lay the foundation for forward planning and can provide a benchmark from which to measure progress over time, it’s also helpful in understanding key regional systems and linkages. We are proposing to emulate this sucessful initative in the cities of Surrey/Delta.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

What is our projected impact over the next five year?
We foresee the Asset Mapping process becoming a catalyst for creating partnerships with others with common interests that the Self Advocates involvd in this project and others will mobilize into a more formalized social inclusion movement in the Surrey/Delta area. The aim is to have the asset maps created become the cornerstone of a variety of future inclusion development activities.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

What barriers might hinder the success of our project? What is our plan to overcome them?
The size and multitude of the micro-communities within the cities of Surrey & Delta may hinder the progress of the project due to the time that will be necessary to adequately complete a thorough asset map of each community.

We will be thoughtful and thorough in our engagement, allowing sufficient time to complete each micro-community and work collaboratively with other interested /like-minded groups in the regional implementation of the asset mapping project.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

1. Self Advocate leaders define and establish who will be part of the mapping team

タスク 2:

2. Establish the terms of reference for the group and Mission/Vision

タスク 3:

3. Mapping Technique Training and Initial Asset Mapping Begins

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

1. Complete Asset Mapping of the cities of Surrey & Delta.

タスク 2:

2. Engage with Groups & Municipalities (Surrey/Delta) in interpreting the Asset Mapping trends.

タスク 3:

3. Work collaboratively to plan at an municipal level to enhance the social inclusion of all citizens

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We are hoping that the community asset mapping will benefit not only persons with developmental disabilities, but become an important guide for all community members living in Surrey and Delta. This project looks to be truly inclusive and would be useful for all community members. We believe groups such as, local municipalities, rotary groups, school districts and businesses will be interested partners in this endeavor.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

The mission and values of our Organization,an active Self-Advocacy group and Self Advocate leaders, dedicated volunteers and staff members,community partners that include, volunteer groups, clubs, employers 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

Inclusive Research Project: Community Mapping

People with intellectual disabilities will map their places and ways of belonging and being valued in ways that can be easily shared. They will gather in three places over the course of a year, with co-facilitators (one of whom will be a self advocate) and a graphic facilitator, to talk about the places where they feel welcomed and have opportunities to contribute. We will engage in "community mapping" around strengths, contribution and appreciation for diversity.

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Guidance and Support for Youth with Disabilities or Special Needs to Foster Healthy and Safe Sexual Development

This three year pilot project will provide: Guidance and Support for Youth with Disabilities or Special Needs to Foster Healthy and Safe Sexual Development.

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Erin

McFee

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団体名

BC Children's Hospital (BCCH), Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine (DAHM) - Youth Health Program (YHP)

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Vancouver

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Vancouver and province wide

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver, Coast and Mountains, Vancouver Island, Thompson Okanagan, Northern British Columbia, Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Kootenay Rockies, Columbia Basin.

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

Disabled youth not only require the same basic sexual health information and skills as their non-disabled counterparts, but more importantly, they require knowledge and skills unique to their disability and personal situations (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2008). At present, there is an absence of sexual health screening, referral, coordination and counselling for youth with disabilities or special needs. In both pediatric and adult health care settings, there are limitations and inconsistencies in the quality of sexual health education and counseling being provided to youth (aged 12-24) with special health care needs due to lack of resources, clinical time and clinician knowledge and skill level. Resulting in increased vulnerability and risk for abuse and harm.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

The goal of this project is to assure that every youth with a disability or special need has access to, and becomes engaged in, high quality counseling and educational services to assure an understanding and acceptance of their own sexual matuation, the fostering of healthy emotional and intimate relationships, personal control over reproduction, an understanding of personal boundaries, safe sexual practices, and an avoidance of abusive or exploitative sexual experiences. The primary objective of this collaborative project is to develop and administer specialized, accurate and comprehensive sexual health counselling, multi-media based education (website) and support to youth with cognitive and physical disabilities or special needs and as required, to their families. Initially this project would be housed and developed at BC Children's Hospital (BCCH) in the Youth Health Program (YHP) with hopes to expand into adult facilities in the near future to include youth aged 19-24.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

This proposed project would be two fold;

1) to provide assessment of the youth’s sexual health needs and ensure access to appropriate services that exist (genetic counselling, physical disability care, birth control), and


2) to provide direct counselling and education services for youth with disabilities, their families and healthcare providers in areas where services do not exist (but not limited to personal hygeine, menstrual management, boundaries, touching, sexual feelings,healthy sexuality, harm reduction and safety).

Project Activities:
As part of the DAHM, YHP at BCCH and in collaboration with the ON TRAC Transitional Health Initiative at BCCH, this project will be supported by the Department of Adolescent Health and Medicine medical staff, a Sexual Health for Disabilities Nurse Clinician/Educator, and an administrative support person. This project will serve as a clinical referral service for assessment, counselling and education, and an education resource for youth, young adults, family, educators and health care providers. It will set the example for other facilities and care providers province-wide. The project would include the following:
A. Direct Patient Counseling and Education
B. Providing Sexual Health Resources for Youth, Families and Caregivers
C. Development of a Sexual Health Referral Pathway
D. Evaluation

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

There are programs operating within Canada that address some of the sexual health needs of this youth population. However, a collaborative initiaive does not exsist that encompasses the sexual health needs of all disabled youth . We have developed supportive partnerships with some of these programs. Rather than competeing we will collaborate to provide a cohesive result, that will best serve the majority of disabled youth in their sexual health education needs. To date identified supportive partners are SIECCAN, GF Stong Sexual Health Rehabilitation Service, Options for Sexual Health, BCCH ON TRAC Program (transitioning responsibly to adult care), and Primary Care Clinic, and BC Women's Hospital ACCESS Clinic. Talks are in progress with adult facilities.

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I am a Nurse Clinician in the YHP at BCCH. I receive multiple referrals for healthy sexual education support for disabled youth and youth with complex chronic illnesses. I was astonished to find there was a huge void in affordable and accessible education resources for these youth an their families. I did a preliminary needs assessment survey. Unfortunately most of the education was being left to parents and care providers. Despite good intentions, parents and care providers have to actively seek out specialized teaching tools and resources and feel confident enough to share this education with their youth. Due to time constraints, lack of knowledge, social stigmas and comfort level and in light of these youth's often complex health care needs this education is falling by the way-side. Sexual Health is a basic human right and should not be limited by ability or access - I decided something needs to be done and have taken action.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

Every effort will be made to use and refer to existing programs and services within the organization, collaborative partners and community-based services when appropriate. However, because there are very few services available, this project will provide the counselling and education and will fill a significant gap in services for a specific vulnerable population of youth. These youth are living daily with a variety of disabilities and complex health conditions. In many cases, youth have both physical and cognitive disability and often have diminished capacity to understand or comprehend their bodies' sexual development. Each of the stakeholders involved in this proposal has their own stories of concern, neglect, abuse and absence of sexual health services to protect these vulnerable youth.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

So far, we have succeeded in seeking out and gaining supportive partners who feel as passionate about this issue as we at the YHP do. Collectively we have started to bring awareness to the need for quality accurate education for these youth. A needs assessment survey was done through the ambulatory clinics at BCCH. A thorough literature review is currently being done exploring the impact on healthy sexuality education in disabled youth. Leaders in this area of research have been interviewed. Existing resources are being forwarded to us for review and editing to they can be brought up to date. Sources of education material design are being explored. A round table discussion group at the end of September is bringing together partners from community, adult and pediatric care to outline how to improve sexual health services for these vulnerable youth. We have succeeded in creating a 'buzz' about this topic both in BC and through out Canada. Creating awareness is the first step in change.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

1. Sexual Health Consultation Service will increase number of youth (12-18 years of age initially with expansion to 19-24 year olds) with disabilities accessing counselling and education sexual health services that meets their unique needs not met elsewhere.
2. Education and Support shared through knowledge translation of the service and project findings to collaborative pediatric and adult centres, condition specific organizations and parent groups; leading to increased awareness of the importance of the sexual health needs of youth with disabilities and the need to provide access to services and information for this population and their families.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The greatest barriers for this project are funding and reaching youth outside of the lower mainland. We are continuing to actively seek sources of sustainable funding for this valuable project, and always looking to increase our partnerships nation wide. In addition, the DAHM, YHP and BCCH ON TRAC Program are offering significant in-kind funding.

This much needed referral and counselling program would provide a direct link from the specialty clinics at BCCH where over 27,000 youth are seen annually. Being run within the YHP has the added advantage of all of the accessible services BCCH has to offer. It also allows for the services to be offered at no cost to users. Referrals will be accepted through many avenues - self or care giver, community, school or primary care provider referrals

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Youth Health Clinician Advanced Education

タスク 2:

The project will begin accepting referrals and operating on site at BCCH Youth Health Program within the first three months

タスク 3:

The development of on-line and print education and support tools

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Development of a sexual health referral pathway for care providers

タスク 2:

Create a sexual health assessment tool for youth and their care providers

タスク 3:

Development of a comprehensive sexual health website for disabled youth including resource links

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GF Strong Sexual Health Rehanillitation Program: resource and a referral partner for physically disabled youth that fit their crieteria.
BCCH Child and Youth Primary Care Clinic: provide sexual health physical examinations on clients who have experienced previous trauma or have a high level of anxiety
BC Women's Hospital ACCESS Clinic: provide health examinations and minor gynelogical procedures. Specializing in individuals with physical disabilities
Options for Sexual Health: Will serve as a resource and a referral and provide professional education
SIECCAN: resource development

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

In order to really get this project 'off the ground' we need financial support. We have submitted a funding application to HRSDC Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component to cover our minimum operating costs for the three year pilot project.
We are working with a Social work PHd student with a specialty in sexual health at UBC to complete our literature review.
We are in talks with a media design student at the University of Toronto, to develop on-line resources for sexual health as part of her course content.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

This project will operate on-site at BCCH, and will have access to all the services offered there ie. tele-health and video conferencing, translation services, an accessible enviornment, access to expert care at no cost to users and the link to a well respected organizaion that already services disabled and special needs youth throughout the province of BC. All of these things are condusive to a successful project that will reach the maximum number of youth throughout the province. Sexual Health assessments will become a routine part of transition from BCCH to adult care, 27000 youth are seen at BCCH every year. In addition the project will accept self and care-giver , referrals and community referrals.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

In order to sustain this project and ensure its success we will continue to seek funding opportunities - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

We require further support with web design, and publicity of it.

InclusionWorks!

InclusionWorks! is an innovative model for inclusion of young adults with developmental disabilities based on community partnerships and family governance.

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InclusionWorks!

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Canada, BC, Victoria

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Victoria

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver Island.

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非営利団体

運営期間

1~5 年

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1~5 年

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

It is becoming increasing evident that the agencies responsible for supporting adults with developmental disabilities will not have sufficient dollars to support them fully for community inclusion as is their right, Also many families want to take greater responsibility as partners with the sector. Coming together as asmall group creates economies of scale and avoids the threat of isolation that each could face on their own.
Also existing programs do not necessary meet self-advocate’s goals and wishes. There were a few vacancies in traditional “day” programs and these support an aging population with different needs. Youths have been fully integrated during their years in the education system and fully expect (and deserve) this to continue in the transition to adulthood.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

To meet this need for true community inclusion for our young adults with developmental disabilities, a group of families came together over two years ago with an innovative approach - InclusionWorks! (IW). For a 5 year transition period, families agreed to pool Individualized Funding and other resources for greater self-sufficiency and quality, inclusive supports. IW promotes community inclusion through a family governance model by fostering natural, mutually beneficial partnerships with the educational, business, non-profit and government sectors. It: 1) Increases the inclusion of self-advocate youth in their communities by providing effective alternatives to traditional day programs, 2) Supports development of quality, individualized, active, inclusive programming focused on employment, lifelong learning, and well-being, 3) Creates economies of scale to leverage community resources, 4) Avoids the danger of isolation and provides peer and family support as a value-added outcome.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Research overwhelmingly indicates that the positive outcomes of Individualized Funding (IF) including higher satisfaction, increased individualization and feelings of control and empowerment. Yet take-up rates of IF in Canada and in other countries remain low due to individuals’ and families’ concerns about the time and skills needed to manage services and the potential greater isolation that can come with IF. As well, professionals in the field have concerns about some individuals’ abilities and their safety in a typical IF model, as well as how IF affects collective advocacy efforts for community services. The family-governance model proposed by InclusionWorks! answers many of these challenges. The model is one that not only pools funds, but pools expertise, experience, networks, and ideas while offering self-advocate and family support, high expectations, safety/dignity of risk, individualization, cultural competence, etc. In a very real way, family governance cuts through the concerns of those worried about IF as a “free market” of services by providing a collective model within the free market. The model also pools and leverages other financial and in-kind resources and this leveraging is greater through a collective model than for an individual whose networks, resources, and buying power are more limited. The model is values-based and develops community. Without physical walls, the InclusionWorks! model builds the capacity of the community to include, to hire, to serve everyone while also acting as a catalyst for change to traditional disability services.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

It would be very easy to characterize traditional agency service delivery models (i.e. day programs) as competition to Individualized Funding (IF) and family-governance, however to meet the needs of a diverse population there remain a need for day programs at this point. InclusionWorks! is not in competition but rather is about creating new, inclusive options of high quality, highly individualized programming based on current thinking about inclusion and community development. As a model InclusionWorks! is highly flexible and the hope is that self-advocates and families will take it and reshape it to their own needs in a very person and family centered way. The “ownership” of the model is in each family-governed group, more analogous to open-source software than to a trademarked product.

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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.

InclusionWorks! was developed in 2009- 2010. Recognizing the social and fiscal reality into which our children with eligible for CLBC support were transitioning to adulthood, the situation became clear that:
• CLBC would not have sufficient dollars to support them fully for community inclusion, and we would be on the request for services list.
• For our families, full community inclusion from CLBC equals 12 hours to 18 hours weekly support. This is not sufficient, given individual needs and working parents, etc
• Families wanted to take greater responsibility, partnering with the sector. A small group creates economies of scale and avoids the threat of isolation that each could face on their own.
• No existing program met our goals and wishes for citizenship and inclusion. There were a few vacancies in traditional “day” programs, supporting an aging population with different needs.
• Our youths have been fully integrated to date and have the right to continue thus.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

After five years, IW participants will be as independent as possible and be well situated to have a good life, including sustained paid employment, friends, fitness, recreational and volunteer activities. In turn, this can facilitate better long-term outcomes, reducing reliance on social assistance and subsidies and reduction of health problems for individuals and families.
At the community level, within 3 years, other families in Victoria and across BC will establish IW like family governance groupings building from our initiative.
To further the sustainability and reach of IW, we are also working towards the goal of increasing the flexibility of the government and community to embrace family governance initiatives.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

After 2 years, impacts include:
• Families in Victoria and other BC locations are starting/considering IW pods.
• CLBC regional office has expanded its options.
• Some partners have started changing or adapting their practices and services to a more family-focused way of “doing business”.
• There is a growing understanding by the educational sector of the need for continuous learning.
• IW fosters a sense of belonging, and, beyond IW activities, has created an informal, strong support circle for youth and the participating families.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

The IW model is not a panacea for all BC (or Canadian) families but potentially could be adapted by a significant number opting for CLBC Individualized Funding. (We guestimate 20% of those eligible which would be a significant number of families.) This would expand the options available in a significant way, increasing inclusion in community and providing a cost-effective alternative model to day programs, leading to a better life for those previously marginalized.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The main barrier is that the infrastructure is still in an early development stage to support family governance models or to some extent those opting for individualized funding. The bureaucracy is only somewhat accommodating and flexible when it comes to both funding and supporting InclusionWorks.
In order to overcome this, we have been working closely with those in the key agencies and in government to develop policies and practices to overcome the obstacles.
Another barrier to expanding the IW family governance model is the lack of human and financial resources to fully document the process and support other families to join us in setting up groups around BC. To partially overcome this we are developing a website which will allow IW to share the basics of its model.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Position IW so that it is ready to be replicated province wide

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Bring together key stakeholders in order to discuss lessons learned to date and key elements for success

タスク 2:

Work on the key goal of Employment First and how to most effictively integrate it into the model

タスク 3:

Modelling how IW groups can work together towards common goals

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Support the development of family governance so that it becomes embedded in the service delivery landscape in BC

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Begin to identify those specific policies and procedural barriers that support or mitigate against family governance

タスク 2:

Begin to work with Ministry and school districts to increase awareness of IW family governance as an option for transition

タスク 3:

Begin to develop promising practices around partnerships with established community organizations

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Community-based partnerships are one of our cornerstones. We have mutually beneficial relationships currently with:
NGOs: Community Living BC, Community Living Victoria, Garth Homer Society, LifeTime Networks
Educational: South Island Distance Education School, University of Victoria Faculty of Education, School of Youth and Childcare, CanAssist:, Camosun College
Employment: Thrifty's Food, Coast Capital Bank, Canoe Cove Cafe etc
Volunteering: James Bay Community Centre, Mount St Edwards. Our Place Society
Others: Flow Comm, Saanich Recreation, yoga, Pandora Art Collective, etc

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

InclusionWorks! groups are to-date located in Victoria with information requests from up-Island and the lower and central mainland. The target group is transitioning youth, however the model could assist other groups (i.e. aging individuals). A website launch in the coming month will address calls for information, but it is expected that interest will grow as a result of the internet presence. To date growth has been limited due to the nature of the model, the need to assess its effectiveness over time, the volunteer nature of its leadership, and financial and human resources.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

Innovation in the community living field has been driven by self-advocates and families and InclusionWorks! (IW) builds on this history. Born of need, dissatisfaction with the traditional service options, and high expectations for lives included in community, IW comes from a specific values-based point of view and a culture of interdependence. It is based on a philosophy of “employment first,” inclusion and citizenship. It supports dignity of risk, recognizing the greatest safety is found in community. Coupled with these values is a small, flexible volunteer organizational structure of self-advocates and families, partnered with progressive community organizations and CLBC staff to create quality supports and programming. These relationships hold the potential of family governance.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

IW can offer facilitation from a family perspective on setting up a family governance model and also coordinating opportunities for collaboration and networking among families.
IW can offer mentoring for workers in community on the IW model.
We would like to find more families engaged in similar projects, as well as opportunities in community regarding employment for our participants.

Employment Training and Employment Opportunities for Deaf Students

SPDCA is a private non-profit organization for the deaf. It establishes and provides employment training and employment opportunities for deaf students and graduates. It provides design services to government agencies, enterprises and charity foundations. Services include, graphic design, print design, product brand as well as commercial and web design.

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Dariana

Tani

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団体名

Shanghai Puki Deaf Coordination Agency

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

China, 8, Shanghai

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

China, 8, Shanghai

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Male

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

1~5 年

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Employment Training and Employment Opportunities for Deaf Students

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

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1~5 年

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

China has a deaf population of about 27.8 million. Shanghai has approximately 175,000 among 520,000 disabled people. This accounts for one third of the total number of disabled individuals in the city. Most of deaf people at the age of 20 to 50 have working abilities but are either unemployed or underemployed. Especially, deaf students and graduates in their 20s. They are unable to practice their professional knowledge and skills because of their communication and practical problems. According to Xiao Liang, SPDCA's founder, it is even more difficult for the hearing-impaired to get a fair working opportunity than it is for the physically handicapped.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Shanghai Puki Deaf Coordination Agency strives to establish and provide employment training and employment opportunities for college deaf students and graduates in Shanghai.
It works with universities and colleges to provide employment training for deaf students and explore systematic ways to update content knowledge in higher education courses.
It also works with employers to open new employment opportunities for deaf students and graduates.
SPDCA aims to provide a platform for communication between the hearing and the deaf community and reduce the gap in information and skills of what universities teach and what employers need.
Its mission is to ensure that all deaf students and graduates in Shanghai achieve their maximum potential through increased independence, productivity and integration into the community.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Through this project we can help deaf students and graduates develop their potential and obtain work experience while and after school. We can also directly develop/update higher education programs for the deaf as well as indirectly influence on Chinese government policies regarding the higher education system of the deaf. We do this by:
-Building partnerships with employers, universities and colleges.
-Designing work-related courses with employers, teachers and faculty members.
-Teaching work-related/specialised sign language courses to teachers.
-Providing work-related courses for deaf students. These may include courses in web design, graphic design, commercial design, among others.
-Organizing and arranging workshops with qualified experts/consultants to provide training on workplace etiquette skills, and interview skills.
-Inviting experts to provide mental health counseling in order to help deaf students deal with their physical and mental health problems and overcome their communication barriers.
-Contacting potential employers and explaining them about the abilities of deaf students through individual contact or workshops.

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?

SPDCA is the only private non-profit organization that aims to establish and provide employment training and employment opportunities for deaf students and graduates in Shanghai. Unlike government agencies and associations for the deaf, SPDCA focuses on providing branding and design services to enterprises, charity foundations and public administrations. These services include web design, commercial design, brand spread, CI design, plan execution and others.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to help emerging entrepreneurs and small businesses grow and thrive in underserved communities? (select all applicable)

Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Last year, SPDCA placed more than 80 deaf students and graduates into formal work and it expects to place 100 more by 2014. Next year, for example, SPDCA is planning to carry out its new project, “Employment Training & Employment Opportunities for Deaf Students” to establish and provide employment training and employment opportunities to more than 100 deaf students at four universities in Shanghai, including Shanghai University of Applied Sciences Art and Design for the Deaf, Shanghai College of Fine Arts for the Deaf, Shanghai Deaf Youth Technical School, and Shanghai Xuhui District Amateur. The project is expected to equip deaf students with the essential professional skills and techniques to find a job.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

By March 2013, we expect to have increased participation among employers, faculty members, teachers, and the college deaf community and have designed the work-related training courses for deaf students.
By December 2013, we also expect to have provided the employment training program for deaf students.
By 2014, we estimate to have placed more than 100 deaf students and graduates into formal work.
And by 2015, we hope to have broadened and expanded our partnerships with employers, universities and colleges and have built partnerships with other organizations inside/outside China to help us grow our business, encourage more participation, as well as testing and strengthening our project management.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

As the number of deaf students participation increase, we cannot measure how good the quality of the employment training will be for them. For instance, we cannot guarantee whether each deaf student in the training program will receive sufficient and adequate training for him/her find and retain a job by themselves. To overcome such problem we need to make sure that we encourage enough participation among university teachers and faculty members and find enough resources to support our program.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Increase participation among employers, teachers, faculty members, and the college deaf community

タスク 2:

Design the employment training program for deaf students

タスク 3:

Establish new job opportunities for deaf students

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Provide the employment training program for deaf students

タスク 2:

Market deaf students to employers

タスク 3:

Expand our partnerships and contacts

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.

Xiao Liang is the Founder and Director of SPDCA. He founded SPDCA after quitting his job as a copywriter in a design company in Shanghai. There he made friends with his deaf co-workers and got interested in learning sign language. He then went to a special school to study sign language. At the school, he happened to meet Wang Yuefei, a 24 year-old boy with hearing impairment, and invite him to work on a design project, sponsored by the local government. They called the project “1+1 Internship Plan,” which involved sending deaf students and volunteers (hearing students) in pairs to companies to do an internship. Also, thanks to the government support, the project turned out to be very well executed and by April 2010 they got 8 companies willing to take the interns.

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SPDCA has established partnerships with government departments, universities and colleges, charity foundations, and enterprises.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

SPDCA provides design services to government agencies, enterprises, as well as charity foundation in Shanghai. Services include, brand design, print design, web/commercial design, graphic design, plan execution among others. It also corporates with Hi-Tech corporations, does research and develops products for promoting deaf quality of life.

Supports for Persons with Developmental Disabilities-RDDSP

Pilot idea- TO develop a RDDSP (Registered Dvelopmental Disability Savings Plan) fully exempt from any government assitance being received.

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Fara

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団体名

Ministry of Social Development

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, BC

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

団体の種類:

政府機関

運営期間

5 年超

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Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

The need would be a financial need to support Person's with Developmental Disabilities to live independent lives will access to fully exempt funds. The cost associated to education, programs and supports in the community puts a financial burden on families supporting the needs of a family member with a developmental disability. The costs that continue to rise for housing and social support result in innovative need to make sure their needs are met. This need puts stress on the family and limits the access of the individual with the Developmental Disability to support services. This access helps the family and the individual with the developmental disability to promote independence and security. Since the individual may not be able to make financial decisions on their own the guardian can.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

To create a RDDSP ( Registered Developmental Disability Savings Plan that is specific to Families with child or adult member with a Developmental Disability. It would be similar to the current RDSP (Registered Disability Savings Plan) but would be specific to Developmental Disability. This Savings plan would allow families to save at an early age for the eventual educational, housing and support costs. It will also allow Individuals with Developmental Disabilities access services that they may not be able to afford. This would lessen the burden on their family. The RDDSP would also be fully exempt from Social Assistance Payments as long as the disbursement is specifically for independence, education and support of individuals with developmental disability. If possible the government can contribute a portion as well for financial support. The RDDSP would allow savings for future needs of the individual. Families would not have to fund unexpected expenses. Government costs decrease too.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

The Model would be very similar to the current RDSP model. It would be a savings plan through a financial institution. The contributions could be made monthly or yearly. The savings would earn interest and would grow over time. Government could also contribute a portion if budgets allow. The disbursements and the asset amounts would be fully exempt from any government financial assistance received. The RDDSP would provide a savings plan specifically for families supporting a person with a developmental disability. How it would differ from the RDSP is that disbursement could be made directly to the agency or educational institute from the saving plan and would be fully exempt. If the individual was not able to make financial decisions for themselves the guardian or trustee could make sure the funds are specifically used for the benefit of the individual with the developmental disability. If the family or the individual was also receiving Financial support and shelter funds from the Provincial Government, they would present the RDDSP paperwork to their Ministry of Social Development Office with the record of the balance. The contributions made monthly would also be reported. Any disbursements would need a written clarification as to where the funds were distributed. With the criteria that those funds are specifically to be used for costs related to education, therapy, social support through participation in sport or other social programs, housing or employment related costs. The RDDSP would have a lifetime maximum contribution similar to B.C. Disability Trusts.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

Non profit organizations and individual donors who help support families and individuals with Developmental Disabilities but their support is given directly to programs and may not be specifically financial. Educational institutions who offer programs for Individuals with a developmental disability but they are limited in their funding and may require the family or individual to pay fees. RDSPs are available but they are specific to disability related costs and may not allow for the housing, educational, therapeutic and social needs necessary to support an individual with a developmental disability. Also, the exclusivity of a Savings plan specifically for individuals who are unable to make financial decisions on their own could for the guardian to disburse funds on their behalf.

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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.

My cousin has a daughter has autism. She is a beautiful young girl who has so much potential to live as a member of society with friends and supports. She is being home schooled currently by her mother (my cousin). My cousin is a stay at home mom. Her husband is on disability from a work related injury. If my cousin was able to obtain a RDDSP when her daughter was a baby. She could now send her daughter to a special school that is very expensive and she could be working to help support her family. Also the RDDSP could allow for her daughter to have financial support even when her parents are in retirement and may not have disposable income. I'm sure there are many families with similar stories as my cousins. I would like to see my cousins daughter to have everything that teenagers and young adults without disabilities have and I would like to see another mother be able to give her child with a developmental disability all the support and help her to live her life as well.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

I am trying to give families the ability to save financially to help support the growing needs of an individual with a developmental disability. This can be done with the establishment of an RDDSP. The families can provide access to program and not have the burden of a large financial costs. The goal is to provide a cost effective method to support families and individuals with developmental disabilities. This will help families transition from supporting a child with a developmental disability to helping that child grow into an adult with support to help them become involved and fully supported without the financial burden placed on their families. This initiative in my opinion will give those individuals and their families the feeling that they are being supported.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

The ability for families to save money and not loose any government financial assistance to the funds to supporting an individual with a developmental disability is so important. This will impact hundreds of families and a would give them a good quality of life. It would give them the stability financially and emotionally. The individuals with the Developmental disability would have access to so many more resources, programs and supports and this would enhance their quality of life. It would provide them educational, therapeutic and social supports that are so important to their future and their families would feel like they are supported as well. The financial institutions would benefit as well as these savings plans would be issued through them. Government would save money as well by allowing families to save for the supportive costs. With the cost of housing living costs continually rising it is important to save money and an RDDSP in my opinion is an excellent option.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

If families start contributing to an RDDSP today in five years they would accumulate savings that would substantially help them to support an individual with a developmental disability. Even if they could save the cost of their child's education they would be able to provide them with so much benefit. The projected impact would be seen in few years and would continue to grow. The family could continue to contribute and disburse costs. The financial stress on the family would decrease and the family could look toward building a future for themselves and their child. The individual with the developmental disability could gain access to quality therapies and supports within five years and beyond, They and their families would be able to live happily with minimal financial burden.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Some may say there is already an RDSP in place why do we need to be more specific with a RDDSP. I would say that this is more specific in that developmental disability and agrueably other conditions in which the individual is unable to make financial and other decisions on their own need to have specific conditions for access and disbursement of funds. Another barrier could be the families financial ability to save to contribute to the RDDSP. I would combat this by having the government contribute a percentage of what the family contributes. This can also be overcome by direct payments made to the RDDSP from their monthly social assistance cheques with the contributors permission. The final barrier may be the agreement of the disbursements of the funds. Can be overcome through discussion.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Have RDDSP designation approved as an exempt savings plan.

タスク 2:

Discuss through forums and meeting the maximum lifetime contribution and disbursement criteria.

タスク 3:

Have the policy added to exempt RDDSP contributions and outline the guidelines.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Contact financial institutions to have RDDSP added as a type of saving plan available to developmental disability individuals

タスク 2:

Create brochures and written material for the RDDSP

タスク 3:

Announce to the public about the RDDSP.

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Pilot-I work for the Ministry of Social Development working with Person's with Disabilities to help them to gain independence and work with their disability. I provide financial assistance and programs to them. I would like to bring up the idea of allowing individuals with Developmental disabilities be able to get RDDSPs established specifically for implemented for them. Partnerships would include the Canadian federal government and the British Columbia Government, banks and other financial institutions.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

Potentially could be expanded to specific Disability groups. All those individuals wit a disability that would require a savings plan to fund expenses not covered through a medical or government assistance program.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

Policy changes can be made to add exemptions to allowable levels. Management would have to look at the logistics of how to implement the change.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Collaborate with funding programs to contribute to the savings plan.

Does HIV Look Like Me? Canada

We will train up to 24 Canadians living w/ HIV to become a new generation of HIV+ leaders; Our project will educate the general public about HIV/AIDS, today.

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団体名

Does HIV Look Like Me? International Society

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Vancouver

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Vancouver will be the host, BUT the project will have a national impact

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver.

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

1~5 年

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立ち上げ(試験的な運営を開始している)

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1 年未満

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Equity.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

In 2010, the BC government launched a program to “seek & treat” undiagnosed people living with HIV and expand HIV treatment. HIV has changed in BC. HIV+ people are living longer healthier lives, enjoying relationship and having families. However, the way the general public thinks about and the messages surrounding HIV continue to foster stigma. The UN stated, "Stigma remains the single most important barrier to public action...making AIDS the silent killer, because people fear the social disgrace of speaking about it, or taking available precautions." The average Canadian does not know what being HIV+ really means today, people are not getting the message. HIV related stigma & discrimination include being shunned by family, and peers, poor health care treatment, and psychosocial damage.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

We will train up to 24 people living with HIV (Ambassadors) to become a new generation of HIV+ leaders; with them producing a larger media campaign, Does HIV Look Like Me? (DHLLM) Canada and begin a network of national projects. The campaign will educate the general public about HIV/AIDS and reduce the stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS. Leadership training to HIV+ individuals from communities across Canada provides the tools to articulate their experiences & become a point of connection to HIV within their communities. Our HIV+ candidates will receive assistance, seed funding, & mentorship to start an anti stigma project in their communities. Via their efforts and our campaign, we aim to encourage people to get tested, protect themselves, and reduce stigma in their communities. The campaign will show people living with HIV/AIDS that they are not alone, provide them with the tools, skills and networks to take charge of their lives and redefine living w/HIV.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Experience teaches us that a strong movement of people living with HIV or AIDS that affords mutual support and a voice at local and national levels is particularly effective in tackling stigma. (UNAIDS) The idea of involving people living with HIV was formally adopted as a principle at the Paris AIDS Summit in 1994, where 42 countries declared the Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS to be critical to ethical and effective national responses to the epidemic. The workshops in this training will help young leaders establish their roles as leaders and provide them with the tools needed to be effective leaders, within their school, community or the larger HIV, AIDS movement. We acknowledge that Positive Leaders experiences and perspectives are key to addressing the needs of our communities and are valuable tools to challenge public misconceptions about living with HIV today.

Our 7 day training, project and campaign will give the ambassadors the tools and support needed to affect how they see themselves, and the media campaign will affect how the country sees them—ultimately reducing stigma and helping to change the course of the HIV epidemic in Canada.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

In 2011 Vancouver Coastal Health designed a campaign, ‘It’s Different Now’, to de-stigmatize & normalize HIV testing in BC. The campaign, produced by an advertising company, lacked the voices of people who are living with HIV & experiencing the effects of stigma firsthand. Our approach & delivery of the HIV message is what makes us unique. Our campaigns are written & produced in-house, with the involvement of HIV + people, creating a personal feel while still looking like campaigns created by advertising agencies. Our ambassadors tell their stories, providing the viewer with an honest and relatable perspective. We also provide unique opportunities for HIV+ people to be empowered through training & personal mentorship, so they can be the change they seek in their lives.

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Brandy Svendson was working as the International Campaign Director for the Does HIV Look Like Me? (DHLLM) campaigns. She met and received emails from 100’s of HIV + people from all over the world that were inspired and wanted to be involved. These individuals were seeking both a platform and a community, where they too could help create change and inspire people around the world. Having recognized the opportunity within the success and impact of those campaigns—she envisioned a long term organization dedicated to showing the human face of HIV, and programs and projects that developed the next generation of HIV + leaders. In 2009, Brandy started Does HIV Look Like Me? International Society. To date, they have created media campaigns & leadership trainings that have taken place in several countries. The organization also implemented the first HIV Screening in Dental Clinics Program in Vancouver, soon to be duplicated across Canada.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

The overarching goal of our initiative is to change the way the average Canadian views and talks about HIV today. The epidemic and treatment have changed so dramatically in the last 6 years and the messaging and the conversation must keep up. 1:4 Canadians who are HIV + do not know they are (PHAC). We need to capture attention by creating relatable and real content. "There is still much work to be done to undo the blame and shame directed at People Living With HIV everyday," says Dirceu Campos, DHLLMI Board & long-time HIV+ activist. “Our campaigns and projects give us an opportunity to reach out to our communities and supporters around the world to create a cutting edge media and projects, that will help us foster new leaders in the HIV movement and change how Canadians think about HIV.”

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

This project is in the startup phase, we conceptualized the project late last year, and in Dec., 2011, we launched our latest video to kick of support for the Does HIV Look Like Me? Canada campaign and project, called “Stop the Stigma”. It featured 6 Canadians from Vancouver, speaking to how HIV today has changed, and how stigma affects their lives. The video reached over 6000 viewers to date on Youtube, and we have provided several copied to community partners, and have been contacted by organization and people living with HIV to be involved in the larger campaign. Most importantly, this video has had impact on the brave individuals involved in the video, Valerie wrote “I choose to do this video as it needed to be said and it has brought much healing for myself. The message is getting out there that no matter what AGE GENDER or LIFE you lead this could happen to you, it really has made people think! I have always said that I am POSITIVE PROUD & PASSIONATE, and now I truly believe it.”

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

• Educate general public about HIV/AIDS and reduce stigma & discrimination against
people living with HIV/AIDS and enable people to make healthier choices for themselves and improve their quality of life.
- Help shape the next generation of leaders, who will be prominent in the movement
• Provide tools, skills, and networks to take charge of their lives and redefine what living with
HIV is like today
• Provision of additional training and support for up to 24 Ambassadors to be active in their
communities, schools and in the media to advocate for their rights, challenge stigma and
discrimination, change policies, encourage and support testing and access to treatment.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The two largest barriers that would hinder the success of our project are securing the funding and identifying a suitable media sponsor. Our plan to secure funding is to identify and applying for the applicable grants available to our organization. We also hope to find corporate and/or private sponsors for the campaign. To maximize the impact of a Canada wide campaign, we need the support of mainstream media. For media sponsorship we plan to meet with different media outlets with our ambassadors and a proposal package detailing the project, our media needs and the impact the partnership will make on the campaign overall. We hope a formal meeting with our ambassadors will demonstrate the need for a project and campaign, as well as the impact it will have on Canadians and our communities.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

At 6 months e will have all the stakeholders and ambassadors recruited and contributing, and all the training details begun.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Recruitment of 24 ambassadors (approx. from each province/territory). To include and strong cross section that represents Canada

タスク 2:

Recruitment of 12 mentors for each ambassador.

タスク 3:

Preparation of the meeting and campaign, securing and arranging accommodation, travel and creating the seven day agenda.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Finishing of the training. Campaign & projects launches will be happening w/ support from stakeholders, partners & mentors.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Wrapping up of the meeting and reporting all the activities and outcomes with the creation of a best practice Document.

タスク 2:

Launching the final campaign. Website, radio, web, print, tv etc.

タスク 3:

Launching the ambassador’s individual, community projects with mentor’s support.

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The campaign is planned and coordinated in partnership with the Campaign Coordinating Committee (CCC), this includes campaign supporters, partners, sponsors, influential individuals, stakeholders, press, CCC and DHLLMI staff and board. Some examples, including, local AID Serving Organizations from each province, including but not limited to AIDS Vancouver, AIDS Calgary, etc. We will also invite local and national health authorities such as Vancouver Coastal Health, Public Health Agency of Canada, any funders, and of course will always include people living with HIV in all areas and aspects.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

The general public views HIV as something that happens to ‘other’ groups of people. This line of thinking can be very dangerous as it leaves people vulnerable to contracting the disease. It is our hope to create a larger campaign that targets ALL Canadians with more personal stories and people describing the realities of HIV as it exists today. This is why the recruitment of the ambassadors is to include and strong cross section that represents Canada’s great diversity, i.e race, age, gender and culture. We want people to know it can happen to anyone.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

DHLLM campaigns are planned, executed & distributed in partnership with the Campaign Coordinating Committee (CCC) & BoD. The CCC consists of representatives from sectors including local government, stakeholders, NGOs & service providers, public health officials, HIV+ people & media.
The campaign is co-coordinated by a Campaign Coordinator. This person works with DHLLMI staff during the planning, production and implementation of the campaign and serves as an important liaison between DHLLMI, the CCC and Ambassadors involved in the campaign.
This organizational structure ensures meaningful participation of partners, stakeholders and the Ambassadors every step of the way.

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Empowering young women with disability (deaf) through ICT

Rural Women Development Center is an NGO which seeks to improve on the living standards of local communities with focus to women, youths, orphans and vulnerable children.

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RURAL WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CENTER

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Cameroon, SOU, Buea

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Cameroon, SOU, Buea

Age of Innovator

18-34

Gender of Innovator

Female

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them

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Empowering young women with disability (deaf) through ICT

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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?

The world is gradually becoming a global village thanks to ICT as it plays a major role in the growth of every nation, business and even individuals. Young people with disabilities most especially girls are no different. Being women in some areas of Cameroon, means being a property with limited socio economic benefits. If being a woman already comes with lots of social and economic exclusion, then being a young girls with disability may be a life trauma. 10% of Cameroons population are disabled of which 30% are blind and visually impaired and 20% deaf and/or dumb. It is worth mentioning that in addition to disability, they are highly marginalized in our communities and giving little opportunities in our communities.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

ICT for disabled girls bridge the gap that exit between women and ICT, increase their access to information, socio economic opportunities, make their voices hear and help them overcome the challenges they face and lead autonomous lives.it will also give young women with disabilities, with that desire to excel in their communities the opportunity though ICT to do so. We propose to training young girls with disability on basic Microsoft skills, access to internet, blogging, networking, and documentation.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

We shall establish an ICT center through which we shall recruit and train at least 20 girls for each session of 6months on basic micro-soft applications, interest browsing, networking, blogging, research, documentation management etc. Tutors shall include Deaf person serving as catalyst and inspiration to girls. Inspirational lessons, mentorship and leadership orientation shall guide them towards their future aspirations. A social network shall be created for information dissemination and sharing of opportunities. A blog as well will be created to enable them share their experiences as they will be tough how to Blog and encourage to create Blogspot.

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?

In our local community, we have many organizations and institution that provide ICT training. What makes our initiative different from theirs is the fact that we shall focus on providing training course exclusively to girls with disabilities who have a special need, do not have the means and the possibility of having access to such training.

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What solution(s) does your initiative address to better the lives of girls and women by leveraging technology? (select all applicable)

Access to technology, Access to education/training, Access to economic opportunity.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Given that this is a new initiative no results have been obtained yet. Interactions with these young girls never the less show great promise of success as they are highly motivated and long for opportunities like this to reach their utmost potentials. Deaf tutor serving as catalyst will definitely encourage these girls to work and hence there shall be a multiplier effect. Girls moral, social and financial status shall be enhance.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We look forward to reach out to over 100 in 3years so as to create great impact in the lives of these young girls. We hope to build their interpersonal skills through the creation of a lasting social networks, create forums for peer exchange and mentoring. Create a generation of inspiring, fulfilling, confident and inspiring young girls with disability. Change community stereotypes on the ability of disable people to excel in our communities.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Resistance of parents to enroll their children to these program might be a major threat as we understand that some people in our communities still regard disability as a taboo and would not like to expose their child with fear of being marginalize.
Secondly, communication will be one great constrain because of the listening barrier that may exist between tutors and student.
We shall work hand in gloves with the ministry of social affairs and institutions catering for disabled children and well as carry out outreach campaigns to increase awareness and encourage parent to enroll their children.
Finally deaf computer literates shall serve as tutors to facilitate communication as well as lecture shall be base more on practicals.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Establishment of ICT center

タスク 2:

Recruit and Train tutors

タスク 3:

Recruit and train girls

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Establish curriculum to suite needs of students

タスク 2:

Increase visibility through blogging and networking

タスク 3:

create platform for exchange and mentorship

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we shall be working hand in hand with the ministry of Social affair. Our major partner is Women for a Change a local women’s voluntary group, working together to promote the empowerment of women in creating a caring community cutting across the gender barriers and constraints.with great expertise is social media and the school for the deaf.

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Changeshop

This project also has a Changeshop where you can read more about its latest progress.
Go to Changeshop: Full Citizenship & Mental Health.

Full Citizenship & Mental Health

Our solution is to demythologize mental illness and addictions, returning their expressions and responses to the popular sphere.

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Grauman

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Columbian Centre Society

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Nanaimo

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Nanaimo

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver Island.

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

5 年超

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

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1~5 年

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Cost, Equity.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

The attainment of full citizenship for individuals with mental illnesses and addictions cannot be achieved without encouraging the motivation and competency of the general public. At present, the lion’s share of “interventions” and expenditures in the mental health field occur privately. However, to foster popular motivation, competency, and community capacity, an entirely different approach is required. Compassion and action emerge from dialogue, from the testing of ideas and emotions, from the building of concensus, and from the practice of newly-acquired skills. Our programs are available to the entirety of the population of Vancouver Island (and beyond, in several cases).

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

The solution is to be found through a variety of media, thereby reaching a range of population sectors. Our flagship program since 2007 is the weekly live broadcast of People First Radio (PFR), which serves as a forum for home-grown perspectives and responses to mental health. Closely tied to PFR is a weekly e-mailing with a compilation of relevant local, provincial, national and international press items. A first series of radio public service announcements, a la “ParticipACTION” was developed for use without cost by radio stations across Canada. A documentary for public discussion is under production about the issues raised by displacement of people from rural communities who seek treatment and support in urban centres. Neighbourhood fairs are organized to celebrate conviviality as a credible alternative to NIMBYism.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

An example not mentioned in the Solution section above are the “Hearing Voices That Are Distressing” workshops that we offer regularly in Victoria and Nanaimo, and even in Vancouver. These four-hour workshops provide a simulated experience of the voice hearing experience and allow the participant to appreciate concretely the challenges presented by carrying out everyday tasks while experiencing this common phenomenon. Participants wear headphones that reproduce a recording of voices spoken by the authors of the workshop, all of whom are voice hearers themselves. City bus drivers, bank tellers, librarians, corrections officers, family members as well as nursing, criminology, and social work students, among others, populate these sessions.
The workshops are offered for a suggested $25 donation per participant; however, the donation is waived when requested. Two staff persons and two volunteers deliver each session. The outcomes achieved by these workshops are 1) a demystification of hearing voices, and 2) enhanced motivation and skills to engage productively with active voice hearers, and 3) intersectoral networking. Participants are invited to take advantage of other Columbian Centre public education offerings.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

On a local level, our only peers that undertake public education programs, albeit more modestly, are the local chapters of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and the B.C. Schizophrenia Society. In the case of our three organizations, programs are distinct and delivered collaboratively. We have discovered several other subject-related radio programs in Canada and the United States, however, none of these programs, of course, give coverage to local realities and perspectives in British Columbia. Vancouver Island University and UVic have partnered with Columbian Centre in a number of ways, particularly so with the “Hearing Voices That Are Distressing” workshops.

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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.

The Aha! moment occurred in 2007 as five stars fell improbably into alignment: 1) Columbian Centre became aware of a radio station operated by patients from the public psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2) Radio Malaspina 101.7 FM was seeking community programing, 3) B.C.’s Gaming Commission re-directed its funding stream to public education, 4) an experienced national community health advocate became available to Columbian Centre, and 5) Columbian Centre decided to promote community capacity in health promotion. As threatening clouds of NIMBYism settled on Nanaimo’s controversial housing projects, People First Radio offered a forum for the community to express its many perspectives. From this humble beginning, the radio program spread to experiential community workshops, movie making, public discussions, and neighbourhood block parties.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

The overarching goal is to achieve the full citizenship of persons with psychiatric disabilities and addictions. A sub-goal includes altering the eligibility criteria (explicit and tacit) and perceived eligibility criteria of persons with psychiatric disabilities to participate in public programs. A second sub-goal is that of affecting the motivations, knowledge, and skills of the general public to encourage the public’s spontaneous welcoming of people with psychiatric disabilities into everyday interactions. Obviously, we are seeking a reduction in social stigma by amplifying the public voice of psychiatrically disabled persons.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

There is considerable evidence of people “voting with their feet” to suggest that we are making significant inroads. The sheer number of downloads of People First Radio podcasts has far exceeded our expectations. Particularly interesting is the popularity of segments concerning aboriginal issues, suggesting that those segments trigger conversations among aboriginal listeners. Guests are keen to be invited to appear on the broadcasts. Due to limited resources, we are unable to keep up with demand for Hearing Voices That Are Distressing workshops. Participants’ valuations consistently speak glowingly of the motivational and skill-set utilities proffered by the workshop. Hundreds of neighbours attend our community fairs. We believe a palpable reduction in NIMBYism may be reflectively partially of our work.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

We believe that we can significantly increase the number of participants in our programs as well as the quality of impact. An as-yet underdeveloped tactic is produced more visual-charged messages through the use of YouTube productions and documentaries. We intend to make fuller use of social media. We plan to host face-to-face dialogues in smaller population centers, using our workshops and video productions to start conversations. We plan to produce and disseminate without charge more public service announcements to radio and television stations. We intend to host community fairs in other neighbourhoods.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

We fully expect that as we approach new populations and as deploy different media, discomfort will have to be overcome. As long as we appreciate that there is diversity (age, ethnicity, gender) in the general population that has to be matched with a diversity of authentic messages and media, we are confident that we will “grow” the constituency. There are, of course, logistical barriers presented by limited financial and personnel resources, geographical distances, and evaluation challenges. These latter barriers can be mitigated through an enhanced resource base which we hope can be met through enhanced Gaming dollars and social entrepreneurship.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

We collect weekly and monthly stats from our website, Facebook, PFR E-newsletter & Hearing Voices Workshops.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Increase downloads from People First Radio by 15%.

タスク 2:

Train 16 volunteers around Vancouver Island to deliver the "Hearing Voices That are Distressing" workshop.

タスク 3:

Lead discussions re: displaced person documentary in two island communities.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Increase downloads from People First Radio by an additional 20%.

タスク 2:

Produce & post six additional You Tube videos.

タスク 3:

Lead discussions re: displaced person documentary in two additional island communities.

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We maintain active working partnerships with CHLY Radio, Vancouver Island University, the Nanaimo Theatre Group, and Google. CHLY hosts People First Radio. CHLY expertise and equipment were used in the production of Public Service Announcements. Vancouver Island University has hosted our public film series and Hearing Voices workshops. The Nanaimo Theatre Group hosts our annual “Neighbours Being Neighbours” fair while we expect that Google will soon grant free corporate hosting for Columbian Centre videos.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

Our intent is to focus more attention on aboriginal, rural, and small urban centre populations on the Island. Given the dearth of formal services for these populations, the need for popular community capacity is accentuated. We also intend to attract participants in our programs beyond the Island in that on-line streaming of People First Radio, public service radio announcements, YouTube videos, Facebook postings, our website, and mass emails can reach people around the world.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

The success of our innovations is reliant upon the depth of our relationships to a broad spectrum of the community. Furthermore, we now have a track record of almost five years in the area of public education which builds upon another 30 years of direct service to individuals and families with severe mental health and addiction issues. We work in close cooperation with public sector institutions (provincial and municipal dependencies, local politicians), the private for-profit sector, local non-profit organizations, and informal groupings, such as neighbourhoods and families.

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 would stand to profit from expertise and investment of social and mass media. Likewise, we feel little proprietary interest in our successes and would be happy to propagate our experience with interested parties.

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The whole world is familiar with the financial crisis in Greece. Unemployment has reached a percentage of 25% and poverty keeps growing. Besides that prices keep raising, and access to petroleum for heating next winter will be very difficult for some Greeks. I have read an article for a British company which has developed a machine that turns used oils from restaurants to diesel. A liter of diesel nowadays in Greece costs approx. 1 euro and the estimation for next winter will be 1,5 euros/ltr.

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IT Training Program for People with Disabilities (ITTP)

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Hanoi
Vietnam

People with disabilities face many barriers to education and employment in Vietnam. To address this, Catholic Relief Services has implemented an advanced IT training program for youths with disabilities (ITTP) at two existing schools, one in Hanoi and the other in Ho Chi Minh City. In addition to technical training, this project also includes soft skill training, and business linkage to ensure trainees are equipped with skills needed by employers.

Voice Vision For Blind & Visually Impaired

Voice Vision is an organization working toward the empowerment and education of the visually impaired individuals. Started off as a Computer Training Institute for the blind and low vision people to enable them to work at par with their sighted peers, the organization, Over a period of time, has grown into an institution for the holistic development of the VI community.

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Changeshop

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Go to Changeshop: North Shore Culinary Education Society of BC.

North Shore Culinary Education Society of BC

Our social enterprise ends homelessness and unemployment by offering free culinary training and job placement to underprivileged individuals.

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Donald

Guthro

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団体名

North Shore Culinary Education Society

団体の所在国

Canada, BC, Vancouver

Country where this solution is creating social impact

Canada, BC, Vancouver, North Vancouver

Region in BC where your solution creates social impact

Vancouver.

団体の種類:

非営利団体

運営期間

1 年未満

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立ち上げ(試験的な運営を開始している)

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1 年未満

Which of the following best describes the barrier(s) your solution addresses? Choose up to two

Access, Cost.

The Need: Describe the need for your solution and the size and characteristics of the community(ies) your solution is engaging

There is a tremendous need for skilled workers in the Culinary Industry- especially at the entry level. New entrants to this industry can expect to earn minimum wage while supporting a family and large debt-load due to training and education requirements. In fact, the cost of annual tuition can be up to $30,000 per year while graduates can expect to earn $10-$12 per hour. They are unable to pay off their student loans and struggle to survive in a highly competitive industry.

Homeless and transitional youth in particular have very bleak employment prospects due to a skills gap and lack of consistent employment history. This is true both in smaller communities under 100,000 and in larger cities over 1,000,000- both of which NS Culinary Education Society of BC is engaging.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Our solution offers basic and advanced education and experience in the culinary arts and is open to all- regardless of education, family income, or previous employment history. Current training offers 1 year of basic training, with advanced knowledge including meats and pastries. Training, uniforms, books, employment, job placement assistance, networking, community experience are all provided free of charge.

This solution is innovative because those who profit most are not required to pay for their experience, while the community in which they work receives dedicated professionals with the right tools to succeed. Unlike other culinary training programs, the class size is small- 8 or less students at one time. This allows for 1-on-1 training with the chef and ensures high quality engagement, accountability, and results. Over 80% of all of our graduates are currently employed in the sector.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include the primary activities involved in your solution.

Using our social enterprise business model, here is an example of a solution making a difference:

A transitional, single mother arrives at a homeless shelter with no money and no employment prospects after being abused by her ex-spouse. She shows interest in receiving our training. She signs up for the next intake session where she shows aptitude and commitment. Once enrolled, she stays with our program for 1 year and during this time gains employment at a local eatery in a hotel contingent upon her completing her training with us. She has no money for training but is now earning a working wage while still learning. Upon graduation, she receives a promotion from the hotel restaurant. Opting for further training, she continues working and training at night in advanced pastry at one of our lab kitchens.

The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others working to address the same needs as you and indicate what sets you apart from them.

We are only aware of 1 other competitor in our city that operates a food-based social enterprise. This enterprise does not pose a challenge to our success because we believe it is using a different business model and primarily only works with homeless individuals located downtown.

Our peers include suppliers who invest in non-profits as well as local and regional societies. Once again, our information is these players do not pose any immediate threat to our success or growth because they are not specialized to manage a social enterprise in the Culinary Industry. Furthermore, we believe their cost structures and lack of differentiation in this field would complicate their ability to compete at least in the short to mid-term.

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When operating restaurants across Canada, it became clear that each establishment played a large role in the community as a place to eat, meet and build connections. Moreover, as our staff were selected from the local community, the impact on job creation and skills training contributed to the growth of each neighborhood in a unique way. However, it was not until a prestigious culinary arts school offered Donald Guthro a lucrative contract extension that he considered the social enterprise model. It costs up to $30,000 or more for a student to attend a year of culinary training in Canadian schools. However, graduates often leave school with a huge debt load from tuition they are unable to repay when they earn $10 per hour.
The "Aha" moment for Donald Guthro was realizing that retail sales of food prepared by his students could ultimately subsidize the entire training program. It was then he decided to launch the North Shore Culinary Education Society of BC.

Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve

Our organization is trying to improve the entry-level skills of those in the Culinary Industry and end poverty and unemployment in the community through offering fully funded culinary training, books and uniforms to any applicant. We are doing this through operation of a social enterprise, where funds from our restaurant and catering services are put back into the NS Culinary Education Society of BC to ensure its operations.

What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We have achieved over 80% employment rate for our graduates and helped to reduce homelessness, poverty and unemployment in the community. We have generated a lot of interest in many business circles including non-profit, culinary industry, and the local community. With further funding, we could begin to precisely measure and quantify the impact in terms of new salaried jobs being added to our economy as a result of the program as well as how many individuals no longer collect welfare due to their good jobs created through our program.

What is your projected impact over the next five years?

With sufficient funding, we hope to have a highly-skilled workforce in local restaurants and eateries as well as prevent the spread of new cases of transitional youth.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The only barrier at this point we are aware of is the funding aspect since without it, the social enterprise must rely solely on proceeds from food sales which are seasonal and therefore cyclical. Nonetheless, we will continue to operate the social enterprise regardless of funding given the ED does not currently take a salary and therefore must use his own funds to subsidize during weaker business cycles.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Expansion of the training kitchen and concession in North Vancouver. This will open more training spaces.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Receive move-in date from City of North Vancouver

タスク 2:

Complete trades installation including electrical, gas fittings, HVAC (requires funding)

タスク 3:

Purchase infrastructure including accounting software, administrative support, computer network (requires funding)

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Add advanced cooking courses in meat and pastry preparation to the Vancouver and North Vancouver locations

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Update and publish cooking manuals used in-house to support curriculum for students (requires funding)

タスク 2:

Expand intake services for new applicants such as homeless, youth and unemployed

タスク 3:

Increase food sales through marketing efforts to make the educational society self-sufficient (requires funding)

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We have partnerships for food and beverage supplies with local wholesalers, while contract revenue for in-house food services is derived from local societies who must feed large numbers of underprivileged occupants. These partnerships have a net-0 profit margin for our organization but do provide needed revenue to sustain the food preparation and delivery aspect to our business.

Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your solution? If so, where and why?

There is no lack of applicant populations from which to select our applicants for training including homeless, marginal, transitional, single parent, youth, unemployed and adults seeking a new career. There will always be a market for freshly prepared, gourmet food of the highest quality. We choose to deliver this food to some of those most in need including those from the applicant populations discussed above. We make this choice not because profit is unavailable to us should we decide to focus on a profit-based business model but instead to demonstrate our passion for helping others.

What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?

Our organization operates in diverse, dynamic environments that include homeless shelters, restaurants, training kitchens, public spaces such as parks and buildings for private catered functions such as hotels and conference centers. Our organization is successful because it holds each and every individual accountable for outcomes both within and outside of the kitchen and because it is committed to the success of our students. Our staff are courteous and respectful, facilities are kept clean and organized, and operations run on a tight schedule. Success is taken one customer or student at a time and is measured through day-to-day activities. KPIs include job placement success for students, repeat customers for restaurant operations, and the addition of community partnerships.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

NS Culinary Education Society need marketing resources including funding to ensure sustainability over the long-term. Currently this non-profit has applied for charitable status but until that is received, is solely reliant on operations proceeds from the restaurant and catering. Marketing our social enterprise needs to include media such as TV, radio and print ads.

Distance Computer Comfort at the Neil Squire Society

場所

Vancouver
Canada

The Distance Computer Comfort Program at Neil Squire Society provides knowledge and computer skill development to people with significant physical disabilities through out British Columbia. Computer Comfort participants develop skills that enable them to participate more fully and equally in society and transforms their ability to enter the work force and experience new opportunities. The program is free to participants and offers one-on-one computer tutoring and a refurbished donated computer for the home.

BRAILLIN, the toy that teaches

Braillin is an educational toy designed especially for learning Braille, but can be used by any child, blind or not.

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VIRGINIA

PEREZ

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団体名

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Argentina, W, Corrientes

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Argentina, B, Trenque Lauquen, Capital Federal, Tres Arroyos, Tres de Febrero, etc.

団体の種類:

その他

Your role in Education

Teacher.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

その他

運営期間

1~5 年

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How long has your solution been in operation?

1~5 年

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

For children, playing is the most important. Thus they develop skills, stimulate their imagination and creativity, express feelings, build their language, etc..
Children with disabilities need playing as much or more than the rest. The acquisitions they can accomplish with it, can be even more significant.
However, most existing toys do not have universal design.
In the case of children with visual impairments, the possibilities of playing with toys are more limited because most of them base their appeal on visual aspects
Also, the supply of materials, especially those destined for learning Braille are insufficient, so they must be developed artisanal and precariously

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

In 2002, I designed a doll for learning Braille.
I participated with it in a Spanish competition, winning and then it turned out the doll was manufactured in China, at the request of the organizers
The doll made is similar to my prototype, but has undergone a major change from the didactic point of view.
It has built a sophisticated mechanism that benefits the learning of Braille, through a typewriter, the cost is about $ 1500.
My doll instead was designed to assist teachers and parents in learning Braille with a cheap kit consisting of a blackboard and a punch which costs of 15 dollars, on the other hand, it is the equipment used in the economically poorest regions.
Children to be trained in the use of Braille as a system of written communication may do so through a didactic element that responds to their need to learn and desire to play.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

The lack of teaching materials that address both the need for blind children to learn the Braille system, such as play and have fun like other children, has meant that elements generally used for teaching braille and previous work is made with poor quality materials, and almost no interest to young children. Thus we find "toys" made of rough wood with no meaning for children, or home-made items that can not withstand prolonged use, and the active" touch from learners ...
The doll Braillin, I propose, can be used from an early age.
Use:
Improved sensory development through the manipulation of different textures contributes to dominating the body scheme
Contributes to acquire spatial concepts (up, down, left, right, etc.) prior to learning Braille and mathematics (numbers 1 to 6)
Facilitates the learning of Braille lettering.
Contributes to the development of language, expression and communication with their peers regardless of the visual, through symbolic play
Promotes the incorporation of playful situations in learning contexts
Strengthens the affection and esteem of children with visual disabilities
Promotes acceptance of diversity
Contributes to the formation of a spirit of cooperation and cooperative
Promotes knowledge of reading and writing system of Braille, among children with vision.

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?

Currently, there are virtually no companies engaged in the manufacture of toys of universal design.
The Braillin doll was manufactured in China, the idea that I presented to the contest.
Currently, because the amount established for manufacturing has been completed, no one manufactures it.
Moreover, the educational reasons I mentioned and high transportation costs and import costs make it very difficult to be accessed by children in Latin America

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Braillin is a doll for everyone, but especially beneficial for teaching Braille.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

The incorporation into the chest of the doll of a mechanism to form combinations of dots that make up Braille

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Children who have a Braillin doll find in it an object with which they identify, through it, they can demonstrate to others that the system they used for writing and reading can be fun and even learned by other children.
At school, is an excellent tool for learning assistance prior to teaching the system, then, for the application specifically of its teaching ..
Teachers and parents are related and give publicity to the idea of Braillin. Thus, contact me and request the production of other Braillines.
I find it impossible to meet the demand for dolls, and now and because of the lack of financial resources to produce them in series, I make them by hand.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

That those involved with children with visual impairment, gradually become aware of the existence and use Braillin multiplying in special schools for blind and in the common schools, where they develop their first contacts with Braille
People from other countries in Latin America have access to this material, spreading the benefits of learning through playful elements.
Provide resources to making Braillin at industrial level.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The barriers have to do in my case, with the lack of financial resources to develop the idea at industrial level

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Agreement with manufacturer

タスク 2:

Dissemination of the product

タスク 3:

Distribution and sale

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

The dissemination of Braillin within the country, will result in attracting the interest of neighboring countries

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

タスク 2:

タスク 3:

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 presence of a blind child in regular schools is attractive to their fellow students, to know the meaning of the universe of dots that blind children use to write and read.
An innovative experience in which I had the opportunity to teach these children, Braille, raised the need for a particularly innovative didactic element.
At that time, the idea of incorporating the sign generator Braille letters, to an item near the children's interests ... and transform this sign, in a didactic toy.

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What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

Investment
Marketing / media
Research / Information
Pro bono assistance (legal, financial)
Tutorial

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Together Against Poverty Society

場所

Victoria
Canada

TAPS is the only organization in Victoria providing free, face-to-face legal advocacy for people with income assistance, disability benefits and tenancy issues.

TAPS assists over 5,000 people in Victoria each year.

TAPS helps all types of people – from professionals who have just lost their jobs to people who have seen their health decline from living on income assistance.

Inclusive Education

Promoting inclusive educationl that results in sensitive and a mutually beneficial social environment.

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Meera

Lakshmanan

団体の

団体名

Retina India

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

India

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

India

団体の種類:

Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization

Your role in Education

その他.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Private (tuition-based)

運営期間

1~5 年

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立ち上げ(試験的な運営を開始している)

How long has your solution been in operation?

1~5 年

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

India has the largest number of blind in the world. A significant number unfortunately do not go to school at all, while some others are sent to ‘blind’ schools. Such blind school atmosphere unfortunately does not prepare the blind to face the real world. We are proposing that blind students study in mainstream schools, thus allowing an inclusive environment, where not only do the blind students learn of dealing with a sighted world, but the sighted become more aware of the issues that the blind face.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

1. To educate mainstream teachers and administrative officials about the issues.
2. To expose teachers from mainstream schools in technological aids for teaching for the blind students
3. To induce mainstream schools to admit blind students
4. To continuously monitor and mentor the blind students in the initial phase

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

We have conducted workshops with the teachers from a private school in Bangalore and Chennai. The usual outcome of these workshops have been that most teachers are unaware of the fact that blind students are able to study and be part of a class. Teachers have been mostly apprehensive about their lack of understanding, and the perceived disability to teach and train a blind student. We had role models from society, who have studies and have achieved their goals in life come and speak in these workshops. Their presence, and example, has helped connect the teachers to the role models. We also bring experts to these workshops, who present the various technological devices that will help a blind student manage the classes, and learn in the inclusive environment. These activities have helped us focus on solutions # 1 & 2. We are working with mainstream schools in Bangalore & Chennai to induce them to admit more visually challenged students.

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 other organizations that are working in the same domain. Seva in Action has been working in the rural environment, including mostly government-funded schools there to become more inclusive. We are currently working in the urban atmosphere where there is some semblance of help for the blind. We are working with Seva in Action, to learn from their experiences. But the real challenge is to convince the school authorities to admit such visually challenged students.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Promoting inclusive education that results in a sensitive and mutually beneficial social environment.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Using technology to create an environment in which both the visually impaired and the able bodied children can work, learn and evolve.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Having conducted three workshops and a regional conference, where the audience included teachers and administrative officials from mainstream schools as well as parents of visually challenged students, we have created an awareness in the two sides about the need for inclusion, as well as the possibilities. Also, by exposing them to the blind role models, we have been able to give them a live example of what can be achieved given the right attitude and support.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We plan to increase the number of interactions with mainstream schools, as well as induce the parents of the blind students to enrol their students in these schools.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

1. Lack of manpower
2. Lack of receptivity among the target group
3. Lack of consistent engagement with the target group.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Establishing the concept to 3 cities - 30 schools - 300 teachers, & placing 3 visually impaired students in mainstream schools.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Fine tuning the module, and making it effective in achieving our goals.(Modules are means through which we inform teachers)

タスク 2:

Building teachers as a strong unit of evangelists for the program

タスク 3:

Establishing back end system to support the initiative (computers with accessible technology, low vision aids, etc)

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Expansion of the program to 10 cities - 100 schools - 1000 teachers.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Creating strong units of volunteers across the cities who are well trained to organise sensitisation programs & engage with teac

タスク 2:

Brining schools on board in setting up accessibility infrastructure

タスク 3:

Creating at least 10 model schools with full implementation of inclusion & inclusive ideas

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 one of the chapter meetings where a group of patients with retinal disorders meet and discussed about issues affecting them, the talk turned to their educationl they had and each of them started telling their stories about exclusion and insensitive treatment at the hands of the school administration land the fellow able bodied students. “we must do something about it” said one of them, which became our “Aha” moment. We also realised that despite successful inclusion programs in got schools under SSA, private schools largely remained an exclusive domain for able bodied children. The patients who met that day almost unanimously decided that we must engage the schools rather than adopting a confrontationlist stand. Thus born our sensitisation program which later evolved into inclusive education program.

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1. Seva in Action – NGO with 25 years of work in inclusive education (dealing with children of all kinds of disabilities)who primarily work with government funded schools.
2. International Agency for Rehabilitation, Bangalore India – worked closely to design the modules and presentation material.
3. Delhi Public School - one of the largest chain of private schools in India
4. Chennai Champs - a leading mainstream school in Chennai, India, with an inclusive outlook.

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

1. Team of specialists who will conduct workshops and interact with teachers and schools in each of the cities.
2. Team of Informed teachers, as an outcome of workshops conducted, who will train additional teachers, and also prepare the grounds for inclusiveness in mainstream schools.

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 accessibility and technological aids for not only for the teachers & administrative staff but also for the visually challenged students which can come to us in the form of donation (PCs, software, low vision aids, etc.)

New entry

Sikizana Trust fights for the right of the child and promotes education of the needy and vulnerable children. We have a rescue centre for abused children.

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Cosmas

Nzilili

団体の

団体名

Sikizana Trust for Community Development

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Kenya, XX, Mtito Andei

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Kenya, Mtito Andei

団体の種類:

Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization

Your role in Education

Social Worker.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Public (tuition-free)

運営期間

5 年超

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成長(試験運営を続けながら拡大を開始している)

How long has your solution been in operation?

5 年超

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Orphaned children and those who have been subject of child abuse then rescued and returned to school within the lower eastern part of Kenya have been facing descrimination from fellow pupils, teachers and to some extend parents. I extreme cases, such pupils have opted to recoil back to solitary at home or in the streets. Effectively they cannot access the government free education offered here in Kenya and poverty settles in their families.Those who hold on to their guns result in applying bullying and other forms of violence as a way of protecting their space.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Sikizana Trust runsa Rescue for abandoned and abused children and scholarship programme for needy bright ones from Kibwezi district in Kenya.

To create appreciation among the beneficiaries, we run weekly forums for the children at the rescue centre where they share their backgrounds freely. We bring together all the high schools students every Christmas holidays. The older ones start by sharing their live experiences to bolden up the new beneficiaries. These helps to eliminate self pity and appreciate that each individual has had his/her challenges.

We have extended this to schools where we continuously advocate for case by case handling of characters. Where the community feels that a school is mishandling a case, we are called in. We assist the teachers and pupils to analyse the child in question. We also assist the affected children to freely share their experiences.

The solution is continous communication among the school community and right based approach to education.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Role models' experience sharing - This involves identifies successful personalities within the communities who have gone through serious difficulties as they grew up yet they made it. We also identify others who at one time mocked suffering cases like orphans who say how later fortunes changed and how sorry they where.

Personal experience - Everywhere I go I share with parents, teachers and pupils about my childhood problems and how certain people identified with and saw the inherent potential and helped me through.

Friday baraza at the Rescue centre - This forum help break the ice for new comers at the centre. Older beneficiaries invite them and talk about themselves first without asking for response.

Christmas camp - This was brought up to make sure that all our beneficiaries had same holiday experiences.

Schools outreach - We go school to school advising teachers on right based education and the need for case by case approach to child behaviour. This reduces instances where children maybe evicted for issues they were not in control of.

Community education on children rights - Through public forums and radio programmes, we educate parents on the need to respect the right of the child irrespective of where the child comes from.

Story telling - Africa is rich with stories emphasizing on emphathy. We have initiated school based story telling during public events.

Audio video shows - This is the new phenomena that we seek to introduce here. We intend to showcase the need for children to put themslves in other children situations.

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?

I work closely with teachers in schools and the children department. We are more of collaborators than competitors. Sikizana Trust is more so percieved as an authority in the field and so a point of reference. The main challenge may arise where schools parents and teachers may feel our intervention is not welcome.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Sikizana Trust exists to make sure each child's right is respected by all and provides education and rescue support to needy children.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Innovation arises from the fact we are breaking social norms and local teaching practices that do not allow cross-age communication.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We have reached upto 22 schools with a population of 7000 pupils with message of emphathy and behaviour change. These schools have ceased to evict orphans and disturbed cases. Instead they have initiated modalities of identifying each case by case problems. More vulnerable children are now sticking in school and receiving good care from parents, teachers and fellow children.

There has been reduced instances of bullying and violence in the schools we have reached. We are receiving reports from concerned parents everytime they feel a child situation in a school is not being understood.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We need to reach at least 36 schools per year in the next three years. We as well seek to include the participation of local district education office in the program so that they can assist in policy inclussion upward. The use of audio visual is going to help our rural population capture faster the essence of emphathy in schools.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The main barrier is distence from one school to the other. This might restrict our ability to reach all of them and for their experience sharing. We intend to instead bring them in central points using existing cluster structures when in outreach.

The other challenge might be uneaseness by the Ministry of Education as concerns our activities in the schools. We shall seek to involve the district education office in the programme to overcome this.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Identify target schools

タスク 2:

Consult and hold a briefing session with the head teachers and District education office

タスク 3:

Identify role models to carry out our outreaches

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Train select teachers on behaviour change towards appreciating emphathy in schools

タスク 2:

Collect and develop audio visual material for sharing with children during outreach

タスク 3:

Review our activities through monitoring and evaluation

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]

Every December we bring our scholarship beneficiaries together for Christmas holidays. On the second day we hold a camp fire where I share my story of having been streetboy, a scholarship beneficiary, a university graduate and now the founder and Directo of Sikizana Trust. This opens the space for voluntary sharing of their background. In 2007, we invited guests to the camp fire. They included 3 teachers, an area administrator and my former teacher. The following day, the teachers called and confessed that they felt that they could have been mishandling desperate and vulnerable children without knowledge. They challenged Sikizana Trust to share our approach to all schools in the region.

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I work with Out of Afrika in the Uk to sponsor rescued children at the Rescue centre. Bertha Foundation in South Africa helps us in core support.
Alliance fro Youth Achievement supports in infrastructure development including construction.
The government of Kenya supplements our feeding programme with relief food.

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

Our volunteers have mainly been from the teachers fraternity. This will continue to be the case as ths domesticates the projects in each individual participating school.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

More Alike Than Different

Inclusion Werks advocates for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in education, employment, community living and community life.

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自己紹介

Jennifer

Monteleone

団体の

団体名

Inclusion Werks

団体の所在国

United States, WA, Everett, Snohomish County

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States, WA, All cities throughout Washington state

団体の種類:

Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization

Your role in Education

その他.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Public (tuition-free)

運営期間

1~5 年

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成長(試験運営を続けながら拡大を開始している)

How long has your solution been in operation?

1~5 年

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Breaking down misperceptions about students labelled as “different” and instead working to build understanding, acceptance and tolerance of all students that ultimately creates school environments based on mutual respect.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Our team of self advocates (people with disabilities) works directly with student leaders who set the tone and manner within their school building, and have the ability to change the culture and ethos by leading by example.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Most often when we enter a school building, there are clearly defined groups - those who fit and those who don’t. Our job is to gently illuminate entrenched beliefs about each group, and instead rebuild ideas about acceptance and inclusion by focusing on what makes us the same. By sharing their own life experiences, our team of self advocates reaches students on a whole new level, encouraging them to see how every person has the ability to achieve, and wants to belong just like them. Student leaders typically have little experience interacting with a student with disabilities. They often believe that students with disabilities aren’t capable of much, including living a full and productive life. Our team walks them through real life experiences, challenges the student leaders to think beyond what they know, to see other perspectives. At the end of our training, student leaders have had the chance to work with and learn from adults with disabilities who have attended college, have jobs, are married, own houses and have families of their own. The most common question we receive from student leaders who participate in our program is, “Why didn’t anyone teach me about people with disabilities before today?”

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?

Inclusion Werks is a one-of-a-kind program in Washington state, as we are self advocate led, and work with general education student leaders and students with disabilities to build acceptance, understanding and inclusion. The other school training programs only work with students with disabilities in segregated settings.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Inclusion Werks advocates for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in education, employment and community life.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Our team of self advocates educates community about the value of including people with disabilities as equally contributing members.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

We’ve worked with more than 600 student leaders over the past three years, changing their core belief system about diversity and inclusion; we’ve educated thousands of community members about the history of the disability civil rights movement in Washington state through our annual disability history month poster campaign that highlights a key area of the disability civil rights movement; we’ve launched the Choose to Include movement for change, asking community members to take the pledge to build communities of inclusion where everyone belongs, and we’ve created new conversations within the community about equal educational opportunities for students with disabilities.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We expect to see student leaders create new opportunities for all students within their school buildings to be fully accepted and included – making schools safer. We expect to see new employment opportunities become available for people with disabilities. We expect to see new inclusive recreational and community life opportunities made available for people with disabilities. We expect that our elected officials will have a greater understanding of disability and the importance of public policy development led by people with disabilities.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

There are enormous societal misperceptions about what people with disabilities CAN do. There is fear around allowing people with disabilities to guide their own lives and be active participating in leadership opportunities. Additionally, although there is a law on the books in Washington state, SB 6313, which mandates public schools K-12 teach disability history during the month of October, we have received major push back from administrators who do not want a program like ours in their school building, that talks about diversity and inclusion. We’ve gained entrance to schools through some very progressive administrators, in partnership with active parent support.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Our six-month milestone is to book five high schools presentations in Washington state, in addition to raising our 2012 school p

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Identify potential grant funders, as well as report to our current grantor about our 2011-2012 outcomes.

タスク 2:

Reach out to 12 high schools in Washington state about our program.

タスク 3:

Edit our school program marketing package for 2012-2013.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Actively engage board with double the fundraising efforts. A revised, interactive website.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Engage the board in active, on-going fundraising by hosting fundraising 101 training.

タスク 2:

Recruit two additional self advocates for board membership and two additional parent advocates for board membership.

タスク 3:

Identify a website designer who can provide us pro-bono support to upgrade the website.

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 will never forget the day a mom from my son’s kindergarten class called to RSVP for his 6 year old birthday party, and told me her daughter would not be able to attend because of my son’s “stuff”. I was unaware my son came with “stuff”, other than his kindness, humor, creativity, and his compassion for all people. I wasn’t aware that my son’s medical diagnosis of autism rendered him unable to coexist with his peers or within our community. Having recently moved to Washington state from New York, where there were more than 22 children with disabilities in our neighborhood, I was stunned that anyone would see my beautiful 6 year old son as harmful or unworthy. It was if we'd moved into a segregated community of years past. Inclusion Werks was born out of our family's experience, and my passion to create communities of acceptance, understanding and inclusion, where everyone belongs.

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We regularly partner with special education parent teacher groups who support individual school districts, and have also partnered to create public policy position papers with local disability related support organizations like Autism Society of Washington, Self Advocates in Leadership, People First of Washington and Tessera.

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

For the past three years, we have been volunteer led, with our founder donating 100% of her time. With our organization firmly established, we are ready to expand and hire a full-time Director and part-time support staff.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

A fair education for the Deaf in Botswana

Program that stirs change through empathy to better lives,create opportunities and inspire futures of the deaf and mute through education and raising awareness

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自己紹介

Pamela

Molema

団体の

団体名

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States

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United States

団体の種類:

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Your role in Education

Student, その他.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Public (tuition-free)

運営期間

[次の中から選択してください]

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アイデア(スタートする準備を整えている)

How long has your solution been in operation?

アイデア段階だが間もなく始動する予定

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

In Botswana there is a large number of the deaf and mute community. They have schools from Primary to secondary but the schools do not prepare them well for tertiary and as a result of that, they only go up to secondary schools and they end up living in poverty.

The problem is in their secondary education they are not prepared for further education and there are not institutions that are fit for the deaf and mute community to carry on with their studies and build a career. Many end up roaming the streets subjecting themselves to poverty, danger and abuse from public such as being raped repeatedly.

The futures of the deaf and mute community are doomed, they cannot get tertiary education, good jobs, good medical health, drivers license and even basic services in offices such as banks.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Solution is to transform the deaf and mute schools to teach, empower and ready them for further studies,work and life by getting trained staff to teach them, expose them to different careers,help them see life beyond their disability and equipped schools of all levels of education to teach and train them,
Schools should have programs,facilitators,syllabuses that are equipped to train and ready them for life.Awareness should be raised in organizations and companies,service offices,public and demand rights for the deaf and mute; to have education,medical assistance,driving schools,public services,job opportunities that accommodate them.Fellowships between the deaf and mute students and those without disability; campaigns and summits and seminars to promote sign language and raise awareness of deaf community.They are deaf and mute but they have the ability to go further and live better lives if they are prepared, trained and taught well. They too deserve to grow to their full potential.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

If she had trained teachers and an equipped school she could have been able to further her studies in the university and became the accountant she dreamt of being, she could be driving her own car,having a good medical insurance and able to get a loan because all these people she interacts with understand her and she understands them.
Training summits and conferences should be held to equip staff in schools for the deaf and the mute, the schools should have equipment such as computers, labs,kitchens and many other equipments that are needed to train the students,career-expo's should be organised yearly to show the students they can make it in different industries with their disability.
ACTIVITIES:
-getting educators and organising seminars and career fairs,
-getting equipments for the schools,
-exposing the public to sign language
-Organising conferences and drafting policies to propose to the private sector,and the public sector about employment of the deaf and mute.

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 organizations that are working towards improving the disabled people's lives. But so far they have not made an impact in the lives of the deaf and mute. The challenges that I could get, could be from the education system, appealing for a change in the system.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

A program aimed at getting empathy from the public and students to change lives and inspire bright futures for Deaf students in Botswana

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

My solution sheds a fresh light to the problem, never has there been a campaign to change what the deaf people are taught in Botswana.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

So far my solution is at an idea stage, it has not been implemented as yet. So up to date it has not ad any impact as it has not been implemented.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

This project will bring about behaviour modification amongst the students who have no disability to change their attitudes towards those that have disability, they will be more sensitive too them. The lives of the deaf and mute will be changed, there will be a chance for them to study in higher institutions, the quality of the education they are offered in the institutions that cater for them will be improved, there will be a reduction of poverty amongst the deaf and mute and they will get help from service centres like all other citizens without having to be picked on or misunderstood. The public will also have a different perception about the deaf and mute and a paradigm shift in the mindsets of Batswana concerning the deaf and mute will be achieved. Empathy towards them will be achieved

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

The community resisting change: we will hold campaigns that will raise awareness to the public with our deaf and mute students participating fully so that the public can see them and feel their pain.Both students and parents will work together in this matter. Some organizations that are for what we believe in will also be asked for support in this battle for change. Significant leadership will be asked to join hands with us as well as media. We will show the public live in through the eyes of the deaf and the mute and stir within them empathy.
Financial Barriers;fund raising events will be held for the continuation of the project
Education system laws; the system will be challenged accordingly and the project will show the proposed model will benefit the deaf and mute students.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

By six months schools should have adopted the new curriculum, campaigns established and awareness raised, declarations drawn

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Team building, brainstorming and sharing of ideas on how to implement the project. Working committee set up

タスク 2:

Assessment of the existing system in selected schools; to show the existing model and how our model improves it

タスク 3:

the introduction of our model into the school system and evaluating it every step of the way. Quality and control check

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

First batch graduating from our project and about to enroll in higher learning institutions, a full adaptation to our model

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

continuous assessment of our model,with changes that it brings being noted. by now we have the attention of all bodies affected

タスク 2:

Higher institutions test driving the new model, courses being availed for them and assimilating the deaf and mute in classes

タスク 3:

Evaluating the progress of the model both in lower and higher learning institutions and in the community as well,service centres

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 deaf and mute are marginalized, their education is poor and does not prepare them for success and the world. They are not recognised in the society. They face abuse and humiliation. I wanted to end their struggle and their pain, but at the same time not make them dependent on whatever help they get.I knew is was to be done through empowerment, restoration of their dignity and raising public awareness to change their mindsets.Which better way can all this be achieved? I thought about for a very long time and tried to research on what other people are doing but I got nothing that could be,that is when I knew I had to come up with a fresh new idea. This project can achieve behavioural modification, empathy, life transformation and awareness all in one project. Through this project my deaf friend who was raped,out of school, jobless and treated wrongly because of her disability will live to see a better tomorrow and those younger than her will NOT have to go through the same thing.

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we are not yet established, so far we have no partnerships

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

volunteers will be needed to make this project a success. This project will need people who have the passion and heart for the deaf and mute. Volunteers will be involved in the events planning and management that will be held for the course. We will need a few qualified staff to ensure quality work to be done and also for efficiency and effectiveness e.g, programme coordinator and research and publication officer and an overall administration officer. The families of the deaf and mute students will be part of the volunteering body

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Pro-bono help will be essential for the sustainability of the project as well as the legal protection. It will help us to take a solid stand without any threats form any involved bodies.We will need legal representation should resistance be lodged by the involved bodies to comply to the rights of the deaf and mute or what the project represents. Financial help will ensure continuity and growth.

Unique Week

Audubon School, in embracing an inclusion philosophy, reinforced by practices like "Unique Week", teaches students empathy for every student.

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Barbara

Kantrow

団体の

団体名

Friends of Audubon

団体の所在国

United States, IL, Chicago, Cook County

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States, IL, Chicago, Cook County

団体の種類:

Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization

Your role in Education

Parent.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Public (tuition-free)

運営期間

5 年超

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

How long has your solution been in operation?

1~5 年

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Audubon Elementary School is not only a racially and economically diverse environment; it is also a fully inclusive school with students with varying degrees of disability being educated side by side with their peers. Because of the diversity of learners and student backgrounds at Audubon, it is extremely important for our school to ensure that all 550 students are taught to empathize with others and appreciate others’ unique gifts. In response, Audubon Elementary has created a program to provide our students with a greater sense of empathy, compassion and understanding.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Audubon Elementary created an annual “Unique Week” program to focus on empathy and showcase its importance in school, friendships and everyday life. “Unique Week” celebrates and recognizes the individual gifts that each child possesses and brings to our school. Throughout the week, students are exposed to whole-school and classroom-based activities that reinforce a message of tolerance and appreciation for differences. Teachers conduct special lessons that focus specifically on empathy and inclusion, speakers are brought in for assemblies and students participate in a variety of exercises that promote empathy and anti-bullying messages.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

During “Unique Week” teachers work from grade-level specific plans which incorporate activities focused on empathy, tolerance and anti-bullying. One exercise asks students to respond to a picture of a gossiping scenario. Another asks students to think about what they’ve learned about differences and empathy and to discuss their findings with a classmate or document them in journals. Older students discuss the importance of empathy by answering a series of thought provoking questions. Younger students read and discuss books like “It’s Okay to be Different” by Todd Parr. All activities remind students to make empathy and tolerance a priority. Making them the heart of “Unique Week” keeps them in focus throughout the year.
Another primary activity is blanketing our hallways with student designed posters extolling the virtues of being a good friend, appreciating others and anti-bullying messages. During morning announcements relevant inspiring quotes are read. The effect is to keep the message omnipresent.
Finally, parents are fully included. They are invited to workshops and encouraged to review the “Unique Week” class work with their children at home. The involvement of family members is essential in ensuring that the message of “Unique Week” is sustained throughout the year.

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 a Chicago Public School, our peers are other schools. We don’t feel we have “competitors” as we would like to think that all schools are also working towards establishing accepting, non-bullying environments. However, since socio-emotional learning (SEL) is not a required component of curriculum, at least as specified by the State of Illinois, we know that not all students attending public school are exposed, on a regular basis, to character education as Audubon students are. Schools that are including SEL do not threaten our success; in fact, to the extent that they educate non-Audubon students in the development of good character and empathy, they enhance interactions between children outside of school.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

"Unique Week" recognizes and celebrates the ideal that all children possess unique gifts that we should all embrace.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Students practice empathy throughout the year, but “Unique Week” provides a singular opportunity to promote appreciation of differences.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

By exposing students to the reality that we all have strengths and weaknesses and emphasizing the value of our differences, “Unique Week” ensures that all students understand that they are different just like everyone else.
A seasoned teacher (10 years at Audubon) reports that four years of “Unique Week” has had a tremendous impact. He says, “Our 8th grade class is the kindest class I have seen. I attribute this to the inclusion work done since they were very young and the embracing of individual differences that has been part of their education”. Helping students understand their own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of their classmates, brings them closer and has a positive effect on their entire academic experience.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

In order to best prepare students for the future, we need to provide opportunities to work, socialize, and learn together in a variety of environments that mirror the real world- not just in the classroom. “Unique Week” has proven to be highly successful in reinforcing the concept that children with disabilities and their typically developing peers had much to learn from each other. At the same time, it provides students with a better understanding of themselves and other people. By giving instruction and access to a variety of places and activities in the community, we give students with the ability to be comfortable, knowledgeable, and as independent as possible outside of school.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

As a school with a history of a strong inclusion philosophy, and leadership fiercely committed to this principle, “Unique Week” has been an “easy sell”. As the product of parent volunteer hours and collaboration between teachers, administration and parents, we rely on these groups for continued success. While a change in leadership or school vision could put the program at risk, the existence of the school’s Inclusion Committee, in place since 2005, makes it highly unlikely that volunteer support and collaboration between parties would diminish.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Audubon teachers, administration and parents monitor the behavior and attitude of students to assess whether the program is havi

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Have students respond to a prompt re: empathy either in writing or in a drawing and discuss the responses in class.

タスク 2:

Have students create posters about what it means to be unique. Blanket school hallways with these posters during “Unique Week” a

タスク 3:

Have a whole-school assembly where selected students read essays articulating the value of diversity and empathy.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

The City of Chicago is divided into 55 wards; Audubon School is in the 47th ward. The ward alderman has started an initiative en

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Begin to attend “Grow 47” meetings on a regular basis to establish rapport with other schools and the ward office.

タスク 2:

Meet with the ward alderman to share the success of “Unique Week” and gain his support in encouraging other ward schools to adop

タスク 3:

Have school administration meet with Chicago Public School District leadership to tout the outcomes of five years of “Unique Wee

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 solution was developed organically at an Inclusion Committee meeting between parents and administration as a way to engage the entire school community in a program to recognize and celebrate the uniqueness in each of us. We have a significant number of students with Autism and the program was originated as a means of helping typically-developing students better understand these children and develop empathy for them. It has since grown to truly help every student celebrate their individuality. If only every school had such a program!

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We have partnerships with our community-based NFP, Roscoe Village Neighbors, who works with Audubon School to organize a highly popular Halloween Parade on Roscoe Street. In return, we volunteer for RVN's Retro on Roscoe Festival each summer which generates funds for Audubon each year. We also have a Neighborhood Arts Partnership with Redmoon Theater which provides students with arts integration and exposure to thematic units on graphic and performance arts. Additionally, through our Audubon 100 Club we involve local businesses in the success of our school through regular donations.

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

Our Inclusion committee, led by a highly-motivated parent of a 5th grader with special needs, boast 12 members. This team is largely responsible for the execution of the milestones, but relies upon the involvement of parent and teacher volunteers for its lasting impact. Leadership support is also critical and we have this in spades. Audubon embraced an inclusion philosophy long before is was "cool" to do so. We are committed to showing empathy for all students; it is part of who we are.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

That's My Friend: Educating Youth on Empathy and Disability in Classrooms

We provide inclusive common indoor classrooms and active outdoor environments for children and youth with and without special needs.

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自己紹介

Janelle

Lawrence

団体の

団体名

The Arc Montgomery County

団体の所在国

United States, MD, Rockville, Montgomery County

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States, MD

団体の種類:

[次の中から選択してください]

Your role in Education

After-School Provider, その他.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Public (tuition-free)

運営期間

5 年超

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成長(試験運営を続けながら拡大を開始している)

How long has your solution been in operation?

5 年超

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

We are trying to raise awareness that all individuals –regardless of their abilities - are an important part of our society. Young children don’t see differences but they learn differences. There’s a need to teach young children that differences should be embraced so they become empathetic adults and leaders. We see a lack of early grade empathy training between youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their typical peers. Young children are not adequately prepared to be in inclusive classrooms with peers that have disabilities. Empathy training is as much for the adults in the children’s lives. Most times children are reacting to the adults in their lives and learning adverse behavior. Parents also don’t understand and lack the tools to talk to their kids about empathy.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Our solution is creating a portable curriculum that can be used in classrooms and within youth groups to teach kids how to be accepting and empathetic toward their peers. We want to clearly differentiate feeling sorry for someone and having empathy. The specific focus will be to teach children about empathy when it comes to their peers with disabilities. We want to have activities for teachers to use in classrooms for those teachable moments with their students. Our solution is creating modules that can teach young children what it is empathy, why it’s important, and the effect it has (or will have) on society as a whole. The portability will allow us to share what we’re learning in our classrooms with other community organizations and schools. We also want to create a toolbox so that youth organizations can activate empathy in their communities. We want to give adults activities and tools to talk to their kids about empathy at home and to get the whole family involved.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

We want children to think, solve problems, and work as a team in classrooms. We don’t want to shy away from using words such as autism or using a wheelchair. We want kids to see that a certain disability is part of who their peers are and not what they are. For example we say to kids in our classrooms that their peer needs the wheelchair to get around like you need your legs.
Specific activities would include kids doing a self-portrait and putting up pictures of all the kids and their self-portraits and asking the questions: Do we look the same? What’s different? What are the similarities? We want to show we all have similarities and things we can offer. We’ll also teach kids about authentic friendships. Authentic friendships bring joy and positivity in your life.

We also want to talk about the concept of not being afraid. Differences are not scary. Peers with disabilities are not strangers; they are our friends and part of our school. We’ll also do workshops for parents and give scenarios to see how they would handle a certain situation before training and after training: What would you do if your child points to a disabled person in a store? What would you say and how would you teach empathy? The before and after scenarios would be used to see if the training made them change how they would respond. Kids are brutally honest and we want parents to use those moments as teachable moments. We would need to do this with our staff and teachers so they can model it within their own classrooms.

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 main competitor is the school system. They have already have activities around character and tolerance. The problem with those programs is that they’re taught to the masses and they don’t get down to the specifics. It’s very assembly style. There’s not that follow up to talk about what was learned and if it sunk in and is being implemented. Empathy is not one stop shopping training. Challenges include having parents that don’t want empathy taught to their kids; they want to do the teaching. There’s a trust issues with parents so we need to say that this is about understanding the world as whole and not changing your child.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

We provide inclusive, common indoor classrooms and active outdoor environments for children and youth with and without special needs.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

We are activating empathy through enriching, inclusive learning environments for children at an early age.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Our model of inclusion has sustained itself for over 20 years. Our program has seen greater expansion over the years. Parents seek out this program because they want their child without a disability to be in this model to learn about differences and become accepting of others and learn empathy. We have made ourselves available to teach others across the state on inclusive education. We’re thought of as exemplars in the area of inclusive education of young people and youth. Our work around inclusion and empathy with young people has been woven into the greater strategic plan of the entire organization. Our organization is embedding the inclusion work in the children’s program into the teen, adult, and senior programs run it runs. The inclusion and empathy work started in the children’s program has become a catalyst for the whole organization’s community builder work throughout Montgomery County.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We hope to have a greater impact in the community so that this curriculum is taught in schools, churches, and civic organizations. We would like this training to be part of the community service hours high school students need to graduate in the state of Maryland. We also want parents to become advocates for empathy training in schools as a result of the marketing of this curriculum. We hope this training will lead to more youth with disabilities being greater self-advocates and educating their typical peers both within and outside the classroom.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Adults not seeing the significance and not supporting our efforts will be a big barrier. We’ll need to show parents the value of early empathy training but also ongoing empathy training. Parents not taking what is learned in the classroom and applying it at home will be another barrier. We'll need to give parents multiple tools to apply at home so they can sustain what is taught in classrooms. Outcome tracking is also another barrier. We will need to make a commitment to follow through as children get older to make sure we see long term outcomes

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 reach all of our current kids and parents

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Write curriculum

タスク 2:

Create a toolbox

タスク 3:

Create an evaluation tool

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Approved by Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) as a training that can be taught throughout the state

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Refine curriculum and evaluation tool

タスク 2:

Submit a proposal to MSDE

タスク 3:

List trainings available and advertise to audiences throughout the state

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 Arc has a rich history spanning over 60 years. In 1950, a small group of parents and other concerned individuals came together to act as voices for change. At the time, little was known about the condition of intellectual disabilities. There were virtually no programs and activities in communities to assist in the development and care of children and adults with intellectual disabilities or to support families.

It was common at that time for doctors to tell parents that the best place for their child was in an institution. Emboldened by their collective desire to raise their children in the home and their stubborn refusal to accept that institutionalization was the only option, The Arc’s founders fought even harder. They wanted their children to lead fulfilling lives out in the community and not shuttered away in dark institutions. It was in that spirit that The Arc was born.

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Montgomery County Infant and Toddler – They use our program to give therapeutic care and give us free trainings
Holy Cross Hospital – they refer people to us from NICU
Montgomery County Public Schools – special education building bridges. 3-5yr get special education services at one stop shop

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

We’ll rely on our existing staff, teachers, and nurses at our children’s center. We’ll also utilize the parents of the children who use our children services to become better parent advocates while their child is in school and in community activities. Our executive management and management team also have a commitment to inclusion throughout the entire agency. We’ll also utilize our network of volunteers to help us sustain our efforts in the greater 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

There’s definitely a need to have a place where groups such as ours can connect across the country. There are a lot of great models nationwide but it’s hard to know who is doing what and what their results are to date. We would like a more efficient way to connect with these groups and share information on each other’s exemplar models.

Project J.U: A New Era of Self and Social Acceptance

Project J.U is a nonprofit organization that helps individuals recognize the great potential they possess because of their uniqueness and personal values.

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団体名

Project J.U

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States, NY, New York, New York County

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United States, NY, New York, New York County

団体の種類:

Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization

Your role in Education

その他.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

その他

運営期間

1 年未満

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立ち上げ(試験的な運営を開始している)

How long has your solution been in operation?

1 年未満

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

People everywhere have moments where they do not feel special. These feelings can be caused by an array of situations including a negative personal outlook or from the opinions of others.



Over the last decade, various studies have been conducted about self-esteem. The time has finally come for us to move forward with these studies through the personification of self and social acceptance. This can accomplish through the help of people’s personal life stories to create a program that helps people learn to love, embrace and accept themselves while respecting and embracing everyone else.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

The solution is to create “A New Era of Self and Social Acceptance” that says that every person is special with no regards to age, gender, weight, physical attributes, sexual orientation or ethnicity. This can be accomplished using the Project J.U mantra “Just Unique.”



Unique, a noun and adjective, describes a person who is one of a kind or unlike anything else. “Just Unique” describes a person who unconditionally accepts and embraces everything about themselves and others.



When someone says that they are “J.U” or “Just Unique” they are saying that “My uniqueness does not end or stop with me because I unconditionally accept, embrace and respect myself and others.”

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Project J.U has a goal of providing empowerment, education and life skills to the community with a special dedication to at-risk students and adults who need assistance with understanding the importance of being an individual and embracing uniqueness of self and others. We believe that we can accomplish this goal through various workshops, forums, ad campaigns, youtube videos, and through social media messaging.



The key is to teach self and social acceptance through the heart-felt stories of others who endured issues with loving self and/or loving others. These stories will always harp on how the person being interviewed learned to be “Just Unique.”



The Project J.U campaigns will show the spirt of being “Just Unique” by featuring people who are all different from one another. Whether it is the person’s background or their walk-of-life, Project J.U will work to show the audience how this situation made the interviewee “Just Unique.” 


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?


Project J.U believes that the concept of the organization due to the organization's mantra, “Just Unique,” sets it in a special category from other players who might serve as competition. We believe that organizations that are dedicated to anti-bullying could pose challenges to our success because the lines separating Anti-Bullying vs. Self and Social acceptance can sometimes be blurred.



The key is to remember that Project J.U is not dedicated to one specific cause (i.e. bullying) but is dedicated to the message of Self and Social Acceptance in every realm.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Project J.U helps individuals recognize the great potential they possess because of their uniqueness and personal values.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Through a organizational mantra, "Just Unique," Project J.U teaches self love and acceptance of others through stories from real people.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

Having starting the Project online, the major impact of the Project J.U solution has been through social media.



Currently Project J.U reaches over 200 people on its Facebook fan page www.facebook.com/projectju.nonprofit. The highest peak on this page reached people reached 225 people and had almost more that 15 users engaged in conversation submitting three words that make each of them "Just Unique." 



Project J.U relaunches fully on April 26, 2012 with a brand new website. This relaunch will assist us with touching more people’s lives with our messaging via social media outlets and in-person campaigns.

A quick and easy microsite was launched January 1, 2012 in anticipation of the relaunch. This microsite will be updated with in-person re-launch campaign dates by April 5, 2012. Re-launch event details will be posted by April 10, 2012.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

Within one year, following the April 26, 2012 re-launch, Project J.U plans to reach at least 500 people though in-person events (post carding, forums, workshops, etc) and obtain a following of at least 400 people on Facebook.



Within the next three years following the re-launch, Project J.U sees its’ projected impact at about 2000 to 2500 people. This number would include social media followers and people who attend in person events.


What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Since Project J.U is a organization dedicated to all people, we believe that prejudice against certain groups might hinder the success of our programming. We understand that there are topics that certain individuals or groups may be uncomfortable with. The key is working to educated everyone to build a more tolerate future for everyone.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

Project J.U will partner with at least 2 organizations to help spread the message of self & social acceptance.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

Launch a quarterly 15 to 30-min Youtube show that advocates the organization's mission.

タスク 2:

Build a database of 10 to 15 dedicated volunteers who all different and share an appreciation for love of self and others.

タスク 3:

Create a marketing campaign (2 - 4 different looks) that can be shared on social media platforms and published in print format.

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

Project J.U will premiere “Being Just Unique in 20XX:” a collective community program dedicated to reviewing the previous year.

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

Obtain 501(c)3 status to better serve our community by obtaining grants that will help further the reach of our programming.

タスク 2:

Launch a Project J.U mobile website to help the community access Project J.U programming almost anywhere.

タスク 3:

Pilot a 6 to 12 site “road trip” with the goal of advocating self and social acceptance through Project J.U.

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]

During his K - 12 school years, Julius learned self-love the hard way. From not loving himself, all the way to suicidal thoughts, he worked to create a persona that embraced uniqueness & self love. His peers called him JuJu. He later cut that nickname short (Ju) and then started spelling it out (J.U) in an effort to find happiness & define himself. In undergrad, J.U immersed himself in student life. This fuelled his passion for helping others & prompted him to begin his journey as a voiceover professional & Philanthropist. With his definition in hand (Just Unique), J.U started working to help people love themselves & others no matter what hence the new nonprofit call Project J.U.

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Project J.U is confident that it will build several partnerships within the next six months to a one year.

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

Project J.U will need to obtain a main staff of 2 more people with a possibility of up to 20 volunteers. The 2 main staff members will help with maintaining the organization alongside the Founder. One of the two staff members will maintain all program volunteers. This is important as volunteers help drive all of the work Project J.U does. The current Board of Directors will still be actively working on the high level needs of the organization.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

Due to previous work that J.U Jones has done regarding voice performing, he would donate his voice for positive causes. Whether his voice is used for radio or television ads, he would assist in anyway possible.

He-ART Empathy&Ethnic Tolerance

The organisation “Izlez” has a project for restoring youth empathy. The programme He-ART Empathy&Ethnic Tolerance is a new approach in solving cultural issues.

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Afrodita

Nikolova

団体の

団体名

"Izlez" ("Way Out")

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

Macedonia

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

Macedonia

団体の種類:

Non‐profit / NGO / Citizen sector organization

Your role in Education

Student, Teacher.

The type of school(s) your solution is affiliated with

Private (tuition-based)

運営期間

1~5 年

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The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

Lately, Macedonian youth has witnessed general education dissatisfaction and ethnic intolerance. The main generator to this tension is the lack of empathy and true democracy. I propose we solved this by a project that will cover formal education of high school and college students from different ethnic background; children with physical disability education.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

This project requires a leap of faith but a leap backwards to locate the cause that made empathy perish altogether; the lack of creativity and art. It is a backward leap into an active dialogue with the artistic past. Hence, it is a leap into a better future through creative writings. Our solution to the given problem is that people can restore empathy through literature, poetry, short stories and drama dealing with the issues of intolerance and inclusiveness that existed in the past. Moreover, current literature works dealing with the same issues will inspire people to see other people’s point of view in a subtle, but more effective way.

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

A typical example of how creative writings can bring about real change is the following:
-a group of people explore the short story “Angel Levine” by Bernard Malamud that deals with racism, ethnic and religious issues and at the same time gives a positive idea about each which by analogy is positive reinforcement for people. Moreover, the group will then turn to exploring a story written on the topic of ethnic intolerance in Macedonia. Thus, the issue can be considered from a closer perspective. The idea of the story does not suspend reality but provides objective standpoint for discussion and solutions.
Primary activities will be based on artistic works, which we named “mirroring activities”, e.g. Beckett’s play Ohio Impromptu (purpose: restoring empathy) through an activity that involves Reader, Listener, Audience, some of which appear in Beckett’s play.
-narrative inquiry among participants resulting in creative stories to be published in our student magazine;
-analysing best photographs on ethnic tolerance chosen on a competition;
-analysing best creative stories/biographies of current writers from upcoming literature competition;
-role plays of critical situations led by experienced amateur actors;
-transforming best role plays into videos to raise awareness for tolerance
-audio & visual activities;
-oral & silent debates

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 have existed several NGOs dealing with the issues of higher education; non-formal education; helping the disabled; promoting ethnic tolerance and the future of the youth in Macedonia. In our opinion, these NGOs would not pose a challenge to our work, but rather benefit by it for our project purports new dimensions, interdisciplinarity and restoring empathy through narrative inquiry and creative writings which has not been put in practise so far. Thus, the proposed project entails collaboration with specific NGOs, by providing the opportunity of carrying out workshops at settings which are most appropriate for a given target group, for example a facility for children with physical disabilities, in which case visits will be arranged by our activists.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

The NGO “Izlez” has a restoring youth empathy project. He-ART Empathy&Ethnic Tolerance offers a new cultural issues solving approach.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

The interdisciplinary approach which blends art & creative writing with education & ethnic issues through an active narrative inquiry.

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What has been the impact of your solution to date?

The work of the NGO “Izlez” has so far proven its impact by being able to organise a mass of students to work together for the same cause, bettering the quality of higher education. However, the original group of people has now grown in number and it has nourished diversity since seeking only after efficient & enthusiastic volunteers. Hence, the following impact has been made: the publication of the six issues of the magazine; debates on the topic ‘student=intellectual’ and ‘volunteerism’; the ‘English E-library’ project; the six successful literature competitions supported by renowned Macedonian authors; participation in Sarajevo workshop for Balkan ethnic tolerance which has been the milestone for the proposed project of relearning empathy that we would like to develop in Macedonia.

What is your projected impact over the next 1-3 years?

We hope to raise the awareness of the calming effect creativity and art can have in education and social life. In so doing, we would bring the interdisciplinary approach of learning through the arts in Macedonian education and thus make space for a healthy dialogue concerning ethnic intolerance. Tolerance can only be brought about if education is comfortable, creative and inclusive enough. We expect that in three years time, higher education will offer a greater range of courses; elementary schools will take ethnic instruction of young children more seriously; disabled children will get the opportunity of formal education.

What barriers might hinder the success of your project? How do you plan to overcome them?

Since relearning empathy and establishing peaceful relationships among the different ethnic groups in Macedonia is a very delicate and as of late, a palpable problem, hindrance such as libelling and discrimination towards the project may appear which will be dealt by experienced conflict resolving activists in a peaceful way. Moreover people may feel discouraged to participate in workshops with mixed ethnic groups, but the call will be made by renowned writers from different nationalities and the trainers themselves will be of different nationalities, which will set a positive example regarding participation.

Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact

-Pupils of different ethnicity will have the chance to explore and test their artistry and work together for peaceful living;

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone

タスク 1:

The organisation will run a photography & literature competition on the topic of ethnic tolerance and empathy

タスク 2:

The organisation will administer 12 workshops & cooperate with two high schools and one college in Skopje;

タスク 3:

The organisation will publish the creative work and outcome of the workshops in its forthcoming magazine issues;

Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone

-The project will break the ethnic stereotypes among most fragile groups and gradually spread its influence among Macedonian you

Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone

タスク 1:

narrative inquiry with high school and college students & establishing active media support for the activities;

タスク 2:

narrative inquiry with children with physical disabilities and promoting their stories in a creative way to trigger tolerance an

タスク 3:

creating short videos based on the workshop experience and providing quality marketing for the same.

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]

As a teacher and artist I have worked with different students’ groups and assessed their ethnic attitudes. I have also worked together with different ethnicities on ethnic tolerance. Having experienced, in a way, the ‘otherness’ by being a Vlach I felt even more driven to explore this subject in my writings which I shared with the founder of the organisation Daniela and my colleague editor Zorica. Having considered this and some of my students’ written opinions regarding Macedonian worsening ethnic situation we have realised that the time has come when empathy is highly needed among younger generations. Hence, we immediately shunned ‘in your face’ propagation of the good values and grasped a subtle but effective approach, creativity and art.

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The organisation has so far established links with the youth initiative ‘Balkans let’s get up’ by participating in the Sarajevo workshop and has also collaborated with the NGO “Detelinka” which is concerned with the education of children with physical disabilities. However, the organisation plans to develop the collaboration with “Cvetan Dimov” school established through the completion of several workshops for ethnic tolerance and establish new relationships with one of the high schools and colleges in the capital.

What type of team (staff, volunteers, etc.) will ensure that you achieve the growth milestones identified in the Social Impact section? [75 words]

The volunteers ready to work on this project are not only teachers but sensitive and understanding human beings. Most of them have had experience with working with students from different ethnicities, not only during classes, but workshops as well. Moreover, some of the volunteers are art practitioners themselves in the field of literature, amateur acting and professional photography.

Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list

The organisation would be very grateful if this project could get some financial aid regarding the administration of twelve workshops. Hence, an amount of around 700 US dollars to cover the essential expenses including travel costs and necessary material would be of great help.

Camp Everytown

A 4-day, 3-night residential retreat designed to help high school students unlock old, limited thinking and develop empathy, respect, and leadership skills.

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Kathie

Sheehy

団体の

団体名

Silicon Valley FACES

ウェブサイト

団体の所在国

United States, San Jose

この団体が社会的なインパクトをもたらす国

United States, San Jose

団体の種類:

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)

運営期間

5 年超

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Established (past the previous stages and has demonstrated success)

How long has your solution been in operation?

5 年超

The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?

One of the fundamentally important dimensions of school climate is how “connected” people feel to one another in school. This relationality is a powerful predictor of adolescent heath, academic outcomes, group cohesion, respect and mutual trust, and violence prevention. Snapshot: 60% of middle school students say that they have been bullied; 2/3 of students who are targets become bullies; 888 hate groups are currently operating in the United States, an increase of 48% since 2000; 61% of Americans say they would not vote for a candidate who was an Atheist; 20% of high school students have seriously considered suicide.

The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!

Through a carefully focused curriculum, Camp Everytown promotes life, leadership, and relationship skill-building through activities such as (1) Understanding Prejudice, (2) Gender Empowerment, (3) Understanding Family Cultures (4) Segregation exercises, (5) Privilege/Advantage exercises, and (6) Disability exercises. All interactions are designed to lead students to a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing -- in other words, empathy. According to a recent Camp Delegate, “Camp gave me the confidence to just start talking with people and try to find points of commonality, to dive in and connect with people, which of course is the most important way to destroy stereotypes, by building those connections.” Another participant said: "It seemed I was making huge life changes at Camp every hour instead of every 10 years."

The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities

Camp Everytown is a four-day, three night residential retreat through which high school students, faculty, and other community members learn to value one another across difference. Through group processes and exercises, Camp builds awareness of prejudice, appreciation for diversity, empathy, and new leadership skills.

Example
"Everybody stand up," the facilitator says. "Stand in a line and respond as I suggest. If you have ever skipped a meal at home because there wasn't enough money, take a step back." The students look around, and one by one, they take that first step." If you have ever thought of suicide, take a step back." Three students hesitantly step and then look at each other. One young man starts to cry." I thought I was the only one," he whispers. The facilitator continues: "If your parents ever told you that you were beautiful or smart, take a step forward. If they told you that you would never be anybody, take a step back." After several more questions the facilitator says, "Now look where everyone is...The ones in the back are survivors; they are here against all odds. It's up to all of us to bring them forward with us."

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 Camp Everytown model is unique. The program closest to ours is a one-day, site-based program called "Challenge Day." This program gives in smaller doses the values we are able to cover in depth in our four day, off-site program: respect, empathy, self-esteem and leadership. Because "Challenge Day" is only one day and is held onsite, the cost to the school is much less. However, we don't see this as having an impact on our growth, as most schools who participate in Camp Everytown use "Challenge Day" to spread the values of Camp to non-delegates among their students.

Now that you have thought out your entry, help us pitch it.

Define your company, program, service, or product in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

A 4-day, 3-night retreat to help high school students unlock old, limited thinking and develop empathy, respect, and leadership skills.

Identify what is innovative about your solution in 1-2 short sentences [136 characters]

Students say aloud the stereotyped thinking they carry and write it on posters. Students who are the target of such thinking respond.

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