Idea sharing sessions scheduled to answer the question – how can the arts support caregiving?
The Granite Falls Living at Home Block Nurse Program recently received a Minnesota State Arts Board (MSAB) Grant, titled the Creative Support for Organizations grant. The organization is putting the grant to use for a new program idea and has scheduled three upcoming idea discussion and listening sessions to ask the question how can the arts support caregiving. The MSAB grant provides the organization with the opportunity to utilize arts programming as a part of their efforts to develop unique caregiver support activities for seniors, people living with disabilities and local caregivers. In keeping with a number of the programs the organization already offers such as the Heart2Heart memory cafe’s projects, the Building Bridges memory choirs performances, the Literary Post Memoir Writing Workshops and the Remember Project Dementia plays, the grant will include work with a program titled “Positively Arts” that will involve a nearly yearlong project with two phases. In the first phase, Danette McCarthy of the Remember Project will work with the organization to coordinate the three scheduled listening sessions. The idea is to generate and inspire ideas that could be put to use in the organizations programs. “We’re inviting a diverse population, so we have certain people who are invited to these but we want this to be open to the general public. We have a number of questions, prompt ideas but the net will be going from very broad to zeroing in on some ideas,” says Mark Roisen of the GF Living at Home Block Nurse Program.
