TO: Area Agency on Aging Directors
SUBJECT: FAMILY CAREGIVER CONFERENCES
The Family
Caregiver Conference Project is a collaborative outreach and training effort of
Aging and Disability Services Administration (AASA), the Area Agencies on Aging
(AAA) and local agencies supporting older adults or adults with disabilities,
their families and community-based caregivers.
The project’s goal is to continue to broaden outreach and training
throughout the state for family and other unpaid caregivers. Attached for your information is a more
detailed description of the Family Caregiver Conference Project.
For the 2002 fiscal year,
AASA proposes to conduct at least four local conferences around the state. These local conferences complement the
larger “Challenges in Caregiving” conference, held regularly in western
Washington (tentatively scheduled for June 10, 2002 in the Tacoma Area). AASA is requesting that AAA directors’
respond regarding their interest in participating in and receiving funding for
a conference in their local area..
If your AAA
wants to receive funds to coordinate a Family Caregiver Conference within the
2002 fiscal year (by June 30, 2002), please respond through a memorandum of
interest. AASA has limited funds for
caregiver training conferences. Requests are limited to $1500.
Memorandums should include:
n the area(s) - city and/or
county - you propose to target
n the general timeframe -
month/year - you prefer to hold the event
n what amount of funding is
requested
n if funds were already
allocated in your FCSP budgets; if so, how much
n if the target population is
a limited English speaking population; if so, identify the population
For conference efforts
designed primarily to reach a population with limited English speaking (LES)
abilities, supplemental funds may be available. If you believe your LES family caregiver conference will require
more than the $1500, please specify the additional funding required and how it
would be used to reach and serve the target population.
Please keep in mind in your
planning The Washington State office of AARP and the American Heart Association
are partners in our current efforts and will support local conference efforts
with resources and/or additional support.
Send your memorandums of
interest to Lynne Korte no later than
November 1, 2001.
After all memorandums of
interest have been received, AASA, in dialogue with AAAs, will develop a plan
to distribute these funds. Depending
upon the level of interest, priority may
be given to areas where no such training has occurred before. At this stage,
AAAs should identify areas with a need and interest in holding a Family
Caregiver Conference even if such an event has been held there before.
Your memorandum of interest
is not a formal application. You will be notified by November 30 as to any
funding you will receive.
If an AAA receives notice of
funding, the AAA will then develop a Caregiver Conference Plan. The Caregiver
Conference Plan provides more conference implementation detail
(date/location, cooperating agencies, ways you will generate local funds, draft
budget, etc.). This plan will be used to help facilitate the development of a
contract. For preplanning purposes, the
Caregiver Conference plan is due by December 30, 2001.
Due to the
increase of funding available now through the Family Caregiver Support Program,
it is unlikely that this separate funding allotment will be available in future
years. AASA will expect future funding
to be outlined in your Family Caregiver Support Program budgets.
Because this is a transition
year, please consider this an opportunity to build partnerships at the local
level that might augment funding for future events.
Inquiries to: Lynne Korte, Program Manager
Training, Communications and Development Unit
(360) 725-2545
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Penny
Black, Director
Home
and Community Services Division