Family Care Partnership
A collaborative led by Partners in Care
Family Care Partnership, through a network of community agencies and organizations working together, focuses on addressing the complex challenges faced by caregivers, veterans, seniors and adults with disabilities.
Through the generous support of The SCAN Foundation's one year planning grant, it will lead to the creation of "Under One Roof", bringing together relevant service options and resources for these families and individuals, community agencies and the medical community.
Building on the existing community service network, the Family Care Partnership will guide development of an integrated system of community-based long term care to promote quality of life, expand choice, enhance family life, reduce caregiver burn-out and promote independence for the growing population of veterans, seniors and adults with disabilities--and those who care for them.
Some of the network of community agencies and organizations include:
Alzheimer's Association, CA Southland Chapter
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
College of the Canyons
Los Angeles Caregiver Resource Center (LACRC)
California Health Innovation Center (CHIC)
Center for Healthcare Rights
Grandparents as Parents (GAP)
Multipurpose Senior Services Programs (MSSP) of Partners in Care of the San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles
Personal Assistance Services Council
Bet Tzedek
Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital
North Los Angeles County Regional Center
Santa Clarita Adult Day Health Care Center
Once fully implemented, the anticipated outcomes of this initiative include the following:
- A working collaborative of community leaders and service providers will be established to ensure that a comprehensive service network is in place and fully integrated going forward.
- Stability of the participating organizations will be supported by a consistent flow of referrals through this integrated network.
- The network of supportive resources for family caregivers, veterans, seniors and adults with disabilities will be strengthened and clear points of entry into the network will be created. Services will be expanded and sustained locally through the new partnerships.
- Because of enhanced community capacity, frail older and disabled adults will be able to access resources to support their remaining independence in the community longer. Dignity and independence will be preserved, family life quality will be improved and cost to the community will be reduced.
- Sustaining continued community living will reduce the public expense of paying for costly institutional care through supporting individual choice for community living.
When you become a caregiver, your world changes.
The order of things may be reversed. Maybe they used to take care of you. Now, you must take care of them. Home is not safe enough, but you believe away-from-home is not caring enough. When it comes to a loved one, money should be no object, yet there are some care giving challenges that all the money in the world cannot solve. The demands can be overwhelming, but you feel alone. The changes caregivers face may happen suddenly or develop gradually, yet forcefully, over time. Whatever the details, when you become a caregiver, your world no longer exists in the same recognizable form.
We may all become caregivers, if we are not already. Aging parents, spouses, disabled partners, injured or ill children, friends in need - caregiving is an equal-opportunity role, and major challenges exist no matter what your status in life.
Beyond its life-changing impact on individuals and families, caregiving is a community issue. So, Partners in Care (Partners) is joining with other community leaders to integrate the local safety net of services for older adults, the disabled and their families.
Please watch for more information as Family Care Partnership continues to "reach beyond what exists today and create new standards of support for and accessibility to services for caregivers, seniors and adults with disabilities.
If you are an agency or organization that serves seniors, veterans, caregivers or adults with disabilities, are interested in Family Care Partnership and would like to learn more please call
Jody Dunn, Regional Director, Family Care Partnership at 818.837.3775 Ext 138 or e mail jdunn@picf.org
About The SCAN Foundation
The SCAN Foundation is an independent nonprofit foundation dedicated to advancing the development of a sustainable continuum of quality care for seniors that integrates medical treatment and human services in the settings most appropriate to their needs and with the greatest likelihood of a healthy, independent life. The SCAN Foundation
supports programs that stimulate public engagement, develop realistic public policy and financing options, and disseminate promising care models and technologies. The SCAN Foundation was created through a contribution by SCAN Health Plan, a nonprofit Medicare Advantage organization based in California.
About Partners in Care Foundation
Partners in Care (Partners) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for shaping a new vision of health care by partnering with organizations, families and community leaders in the work of changing healthcare systems, changing communities and changing lives.
We work to develop more effective, more efficient approaches to improve quality of life for diverse individuals and communities, targeting the most at-risk. Successful models are replicated in leading local, regional and national organizations. Partners became a freestanding non-profit organization in 1997.
