Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network

Breaking news! After an incredibly successful 2024 event, the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network conference is returning to a familiar time and place — St. Louis in the summertime! We'll have more information about speakers, sessions, and events, including a special commemoration of the landmark Pioneer Network St. Louis Accord of 2005, in the new year. But until then, mark your calendars for August 11-13 and get ready to gather under the Gateway Arch this summer!

This week, we continue our 2024 in review by revisiting this June episode with Martin Rix of Belong, an organization that's creating household model care settings in the United Kingdom. At the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network, we're proud to have founded the Household Model International Consortium with Belong and Australia's HammondCare — with the goal of learning best practices and ideas across international borders. Tune in for a conversation on the ways that the household model and person-directed care practices transcend cultural differences: https://lnkd.in/dsvCD9Qv

I hope you will check out the latest newsletter and end of year review from Art Against Ageism! 🖼️🎼📸 It contains a summary of all of the work that Jordan Evans and I have been doing all year — and the reasons why I feel so fulfilled this holiday season. It truly warms my heart to see how using our creative minds — and those of so many who support us — can have a powerful impact on exposing ageism and dismantling stereotypes around age and aging. ❤️ Jordan and I would like to thank a few of these amazing people, all of whom marshalled their artistry, creativity, experience and intelligence to make some awesome things happen in 2024: Kim Anderson, NDCCDE, CDR, Michelle Olson, PhD, Sara Kaltwasser, Rachel Hill, Sonya Williams, Kim Ross Beasley, Lynn Shotwell, Edward Bernstein, Lori Porter, Meaghan McMahon, LGSW, Marvell Adams Jr., Sarah M., Janine Vanderburg. 🩷🩷🩷 So many more amazing peeps in the comments! If you want to keep up with Art Against Ageism news, please click here: https://lnkd.in/eeZ4DxH5 Check out the newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/ezAuViSX

Thank you Susan Ryan for this inspiring, in-depth interview spotlighting dedicated members of our Westchester team who embrace and instill Green House values at our Small Houses! Please tune in to hear insights from LPN Wendy McDonald, CNA/Adir Joycelyn Scott, and Assistant Administrator and Green House Guide Miriam Levi, LNHA, MS, CTRS, who passionately leads and champions our person-directed care efforts.

Today, we welcomed Tom Symondson, CEO of the Aged & Community Care Providers Association, ACCPA to ACH Group’s newest residential care home, Healthia. ACH Group’s, Healthia is the first Green House Project (Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network), trademarked home in Australia. Tom joined ACH Group, CEO Linda Feldt for a comprehensive tour of Healthia and met with residents and staff to experience first-hand, the award-winning home and small home model of care being delivered at Healthia. Accompanied by Daniela Ciccarello, Bev Malone ACCPA, and ACH Group leaders, Ivy, Marie and Chloe. Residents from Pine House, invited Linda, Tom and the team into their home to experience small home living. The group also visited Healthia’s, state-of-the-art gym where residents work toward their brain health and physical fitness goals. They also experienced the vibrant social atmosphere as residents came together to decorate their home’s Christmas tree. The tour was a great opportunity to highlight how ACH Group’s small home model is working successfully to support people to live good lives.

Ok, stop, my #DementiaNerd Life can end here: So honored for presenting the CFI Trailblazer award to Vicki de Klerk for the work of Naomi Feil, the "Godmother" of Dementia Care: The Validation Method promoted by Validation Training Institute makes us all better Humans - and Senior Living a better place Thank you Susan Ryan for asking me, I am deeply grateful Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network #oldpeoplearecool #activitiesstrong #residentengagement LifeLoop

Big news to start the holiday week! We've launched www.AgingInnovation.org, the new online home for the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network! Our three brands — The Green House Project, Pioneer Network, and EmpowerED — contribute equally to advancing our mission of catalyzing person-directed living and empowered cultures in the community of one's choice. There's no one path to improving services and supports for older adults. At CFI, we're committed to working with organizations, advocates, and other stakeholders to build the care environments that best suit their unique needs — whether it's full physical transformation into Green House homes, culture change work in the Pioneer tradition, or workforce training via our EmpowerED eLearning platform. Check it out here, and don't be surprised if you get messages from our team from the new domain: https://lnkd.in/eSzS2hWh

I was proud to receive the Trailblazer award from the Center for Innovation, on behalf of my mother, Naomi Feil.

Thanks to McKnight's Long-Term Care News for highlighting some of the amazing takeaways at our conference last week, including this vital quote from Laci Cornelison: “If we’re going to elevate the resident’s voice, we’ve got to include residents. We really wanted to take an approach where we’re looking at things through the lens of culture change and person-centered care. We focus mostly on quality of life rather than clinical needs.” https://lnkd.in/esQ2rxQh

To borrow from the inspirational keynote of the CFI 2024 Keynote of Thomas Vozzo, "may we all be willing to fan into flame the embers that glow within each of us and fuel the fire of kinship and belonging that cannot be put out." As we reflect on the incredible week of the 2024 Center for Innovation 2024 Conference, our hearts are filled with with the countless moments of inspiration and impact. > From the dynamic pre-conferences sessions on Monday to the closing session with Robert Eames, who energized us to take on bold action plans after the conference that will impact our communities in substantive and innovative ways, we grew bolder. > From the heartfelt and passionate presentations from Emi Kiyota, Francis Njuakom, and Jack York to the rousing awards ceremony (with Vicki de Klerk, Charles de Vilmorin, Joan Devine, Barry Berman, Betsy Mullen, Rose Marie Fagan, Debby Barman, Charlene Boyd, Carter Catlett Williams, Jude Thomas, Joanne Rader, and Jeff Shireman), we grew bolder! > From the open bell rung by Mark Roberts and Brenda Roberts of National Council of Dementia Minds to the Impact Intensives with Mary Kemper, Rob Liebreich, Tamar Krebs, Carol Silver-Elliott, and Melissa DeStout, we grew bolder! > From the What the Tech Panel and Tech Innovation Summit with Vipan Nikore MD, MBA, FACP, Joe Velderman, Mohammad Ghassemi, Jeff McSpadden, Matt Reiners and Jack York to the unconventional yet super fun Fowling Event, we grew bolder! The Grow Bolder 2024 Conference may have ended, but the memories, the impact, and the impressions will live on! Mark your calendar for the next CFI conference in August of 2025 in St. Louis! #CFI2024 #GrowBolder