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The Smart & Caring Communities Fund the smartest way to ensure funding is getting to the areas that need it most within your community. Our Smart & Caring Community Fund is a flexible granting model. This means that a collection of our community-minded volunteers can create grants to aid the areas that need it most without having to worry about limitations or specific parameters.
In Spring of 2018, Bethany Care Foundation received a $1500 grant through the Red Deer & District Community Foundation’s Smart and Caring Communities Fund. This grant was used to help them purchase sensory therapy materials which has allowed them to rejuvenate their sensory therapy programming. These sensory materials had several objectives:
a. To provide seniors and adults with disabilities more way to communicate with their friends, family members and caregivers;
b. To proved the with opportunities to feel in control and successful;
c. To provide them with more diverse opportunities for social interaction;
d. To provide an opportunity to foster understanding, empathy, and friendship between residents in care and individuals outside of the care community; and
e. To provide more opportunities for community engagement between Bethany Collegeside and the greater Red Deer Community.
The success of the Sensory Therapy program at Bethany Collegeside has now encouraged other Bethany Care locations to adopt the same therapies. Since beginning this in other locations, residents and therapists have found it engaging and beneficial in increasing movement, engagements and a sense of meaningful activity.
Catholic Social Services was granted $7200.00 from the Red Deer & District Community Foundation’s Smart and Caring Communities Fund. This money went towards CSS being able to equip four of their group homes for adults with automated external defibrillator’s (AED’s). The inhabitants of these group homes have various disabilities, medical conditions or other health issues that place them more at risk of sudden cardiac arrest. With the placement of these devices, the staff who are already trained in Emergency First Aid/CPR, were also trained in how to properly and effectively use the AED in the event of a cardiac arrest.
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