Caregiver Coalitions Innovation and Sustainability National Caregiver Coalition Conference March 18,

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Caregiver CoalitionsInnovation and
SustainabilityNational Caregiver Coalition
ConferenceMarch 18, 2009

• Sonnie Yudell, Program Manager
• Utah Division of Aging and Adult Services
• President, Utah Coalition for Caregiver Support

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Ideas without action are worthless

• Harvey Mackay
• American Businessman, Speaker, Author

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Innovation

• A newly introduced practice or method intended to
  improve the current practice
• Development of new products, processes,
  organizations, management practices, and
  strategies.

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Sustainability

• In a broad sense, is the ability to maintain a
  certain process or state.

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Goal of Innovation

• To bring about positive change, to make someone
  or something better.

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Ideas to Keep the Coalition Going

• Coalitions can generate a lot of ideas
• Fun and stimulating
• Allow you to expand your vision and work
• Examples from the Utah Coalition for Caregiver
  Support (UCCS)
• Projects and Products
• Leadership

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Harness the Energy

• Work together to keep moving forward
• Sustain your visions
• Create the focus
• Inspire leadership
• Keep the ideas flowing
• Allow the action to take place

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Focus

• How do you focus?
• What do you focus on?
• Who will help with focus?
• S.M.A.R.T Model

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Leadership

• Important to drive growth
• Let leaders emerge
• Listen to their voices and their passions
• Realize they are not always in front of the room

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New Voices

• Keep new voices coming to the table
• Keep leaders and organization alive
• Generates energy and ideas and action
• Gives life to new and innovative ideas

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Growth

• Innovations can lead to growth as you hone your
  focus and expend the energy to develop the new
  ideas