Merrimack County Caregiver Coalition Meeting

4th Wednesday of Every Month
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Merrimack County Community Action Program Conference Room
2 Industrial Park Drive
Concord, NH 03301

The mission of the coalition is to educate, support, and empower caregivers of the elderly to create awareness of community resources and services and to promote an understanding of the impact that caregiving has within our community.  All caregivers and providers of related agencies are encouraged to participate for mutual sharing of resources and support.

For more information, please contact Merrimack County ServiceLink at (603) 228-6625 or
1-866-634-9412 or email dsemple@mcservicelink.org

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Methods, Models & Tools
An intensive week-long summer institute designed to help develop the competencies needed to facilitate consumer and family directed life planning

Methods, Models & Tools is an intensive five-day summer institute, presented by the UNH Institute on Disability and the Browne Center, designed to help develop the competencies needed to facilitate consumer and family-directed life planning. The summer institute incorporates lecture, role-playing, action learning, and peer support to provide an interactive forum for participants to develop and practice effective group facilitation skills. The curriculum addresses theories of group development, offering experiential methods for process design, questioning and recording skills, and strategic planning. Models of situational leadership, team performance, conflict management and principled negotiation are translated to the context of person-centered futures planning.

Dates: July 15, 16, 17, 20, & 21, 2009
Time: 9 am to 4 pm
Location: The Browne Center, 340 Dame Road, Durham, NH
Registration Fee: $700
*$50 per person discount available for groups of three or more.
*Includes breakfast and lunch on all 5 days, plus dinner on 7/15 and 7/20 .
*Affordable overnight accommodations are available at UNH and in Durham. For more information, call 603.228.2084.
Instructors: Patty Cotton, M.Ed., Director, Innovation Facilitators, & Pam McPhee, MSW, Director, The Browne Center

For more information and to register:call (603) 228-2084

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Parenting Revisited: Life On A Trampoline
A Kinship Conference for Grandparents and Relatives Raising Children and
Those Who Support Them

October 8, 2009
Fireside Inn
West Lebanon, NH

Featuring Dr. Joseph Crumbley
The author of Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care

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Falls Risk Reduction Across the Care Continuum

October 20, 2009:Focusing on Community Based and Acute Care Settings
October 21, 2009: Focusing on Long Term Care Settings
SERESC, Bedford, NH

Join us for a two day professional conference jointly sponsored by:
New Hampshire Falls Risk Reduction Task Force
New Hampshire Health Care Association
Northern New England Geriatric Education Center

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