1. 6/13/2016 Growing Capacity to Meet the Need: Exploring Opportunities for Partnerships Between Aging & Public Health Agencies Examples of Collaborations

2. 6/13/2016 Growing Capacity to Meet the Need: Exploring Opportunities for Partnerships Between Aging & Public Health Agencies Population is about 102,105 (2015 estimate, U.S. Census Bureau) and consists of urban, rural and suburban – Eau Claire 65,883, Altoona 6,706, Augusta 1,150 Racial distribution is: White (92.8%), Asian (3.8%), Hispanic or Latino (2.3%), Black or African American (1.0%), American Indian or Alaskan Native (0.6%), 2 or more races (1.7%), Other ( 0.1% ). Eau Claire County

3. 6/13/2016 Growing Capacity to Meet the Need: Exploring Opportunities for Partnerships Between Aging & Public Health Agencies http://eauclaire.wi.networkofcare.org/content/client/1148/Eau-Claire-Healthy- Communities-CHIP-2015-2018.pdf Strengths in Partnership

4. 6/13/2016 Growing Capacity to Meet the Need: Exploring Opportunities for Partnerships Between Aging & Public Health Agencies

5. NACCHO Grants Developing capacity for CDSMP Building community resiliency to meet dementia needs

6. Challenges Primary focus is different ages Hmong community inclusion in E-B programming Sustainability depends on ability to juggle many hats and continually recruit new partners/leaders Increasing demands for services

7. 6/13/2016 Growing Capacity to Meet the Need: Exploring Opportunities for Partnerships Between Aging & Public Health Agencies Where to start… Join and contribute to community coalitions and projects as mutual goals and capacity allows Be responsive to inquires Seek partners in medical, home care and long-term care agencies Communicate, ask, give feedback and thanks!