Living Well With Dementia Creating Dementia Friendly Communities September 2015

Collective Impact “Collective impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a social problem”

DFC Model Entity Activities Primary and Secondary Outcomes Common and Unique Collective Impact One Shared Vision

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step” (Martin Luther King Jr.)

The Top 100 Partner List (Paul Born) “When we ask who cares we invite others who are passionate about an issue; when we ask what’s possible, it opens up to an unprecedented creativity” (Margaret Wheatley)

The Complete Exercise Brainstorm your partner list Rank your list by sector Rank your list by people Consider who to approach first Craft the “ask”

The exercise…. Develop a list of potential partners Use the sectors sheet to record names/organizations Identify and list, don’t rank

Consider … What influences each sector brings Consider WHO 8 dimensions to help identify players Consider who people with dementia interact with

1. Form groups by geographical community 2. Identify a recorder 3. Brainstorm and record

Thank you!