Dear AAN members,
As most of you are aware, the Santa Barbara Foundation has been funding a number of community nonprofits around the issue of supporting family caregivers of seniors and developing better coordination of services for them. The goal is to strengthen family caregivers and in doing so to strengthen the long-term care safety net for Santa Barbara County. This evolving work is now being called the Community Caregiving Initiative (or CCI for short). The Community Caregiving Initiative is interested in expanding its engagement with all organizations that are working with family caregivers of seniors in Santa Barbara County by inviting individual caregivers to participate in a survey.
While all organizations receiving foundation support through the Community Caregiving Initiative are participating in the survey distribution, your organization is invited to participate in the survey process, even if you are not currently a recipient for a Family Caregiver Systems & Support grant. Our goal is to look at services and networks that support family caregivers of seniors across the county. Later in 2017, we anticipate an open grant process for the Community Caregiving Initiative and organizations that are participating in the survey/evaluation process will receive priority consideration for funding. Additionally, as a participating organization, you will receive information that can be used to help inform your program design and provide a deeper understanding of family caregivers.
Here are the details:
Survey purpose: To understand the experiences of family caregivers in Santa Barbara County, improve services to family caregivers across the county, and evaluate the efforts of the Community Caregiving Initiative. The survey is available in English and Spanish, is confidential, and will take 10-15 minutes to complete.
Survey participation: We need your help to invite family caregivers to participate in the survey. Inviting a caregiver to participate should take one minute or less. A “caregiver survey invitation script for agency staff” is attached for those who will have direct contact with caregivers at their agency/in their work and be inviting them to participate. Also attached is a “caregiver survey invitation to print and give to caregivers” that describes the survey purpose and provides the url/weblink. Helping recruit for the survey can be as simple as
• Using the script to invite caregivers and providing them with a computer or tablet to take the survey while they are at your agency, OR
• Inviting caregivers in-person or via email and providing them with the url/weblink (http://www.sbfoundation.org/caregiver-survey), OR
• Inviting caregivers and providing them a paper survey to complete and give/mail back to you.
If you wish to look at the survey, please do NOT use the actual survey link. If you do so, you will be logged in as a caregiver survey participant. The survey can be found as a an attachment to this email and as a PDF document on the partner resources page mentioned in the next paragraph.
All information about the survey administration (including FAQ’s, a .pdf of the survey itself, an invitation script, and a printable invitation) can be found at this link: http://www.sbfoundation.org/cci-partner-resources. This link is the location where you and your staff will find the tools to assist you initiate the survey.
Caregiver incentives: All caregivers that complete the survey will have the option of receiving a $5 electronic gift card that will be emailed to them within 3 weeks. We will provide up to 300 $5 gift cards every 6 months. In order to receive an incentive, an email address must be provided at the time the survey is completed.
The best way for caregivers to participate is by completing the online survey. Survey pdf files are also attached) if you need to print and provide paper copies to caregivers who prefer it to the online survey. Any paper surveys that are collected from caregivers will need to be entered into the online survey by agency staff.
Our goal: Have 300 caregivers across Santa Barbara County complete the survey every six months. We will provide weekly updates on the number of completed surveys received from each partner agency. Once we collect 300 we will close the survey for that six month period, and reopen it when again in 6 months. We hope to reach the initial goal of 300 caregivers surveyed by April 1st. Findings from the survey will be shared and interpreted by participating agencies at bi-annual “data parties”. The first data party is Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 and will be held at the Santa Barbara Foundation. Please mark your calendar and be on the lookout for further details.
Survey FAQs: We have developed a list of frequently asked questions with answers about the survey. PLEASE READ THESE BEFORE YOU RECRUIT CAREGIVERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY. If you have a question that isn’t answered on this sheet please let us know and we’ll answer it and add it for others to read.
Webinar recording: You can access a recording of the webinar provided on January 10th describing the survey and methods at the Evaluation Specialists website. Instructions for recruiting caregivers to participate in the survey, and other important details, can be found in the FAQs. The webinar can be viewed at the following link:
Navigate to the ‘Client Portal’ and login using the following information:
Username – SBCCCI
Password - sbccci
Information Requested: Organizations that will be participating in the survey process are requested to respond to this message by sending the names and email addresses of the person(s) who will be the direct point of contact with caregivers for the survey and the person who will be responsible for oversight of the survey administration. Please feel free to share this message with your contacts at other organizations that are serving family caregivers.
Questions: We are happy to answer any questions you have. Please contact me by phone or email. My contact information is found below.
While the survey we are discussing in this message is designed for caregivers themselves, one additional survey to be completed by an organization serving caregivers will be distributed in the near future. Please be on the lookout for this and additional information about it.
Thank you in advance for your efforts in helping Santa Barbara County engage our family caregivers.
Best regards,
Phylene
Phylene Wiggins
Senior Director of Community Investments
Santa Barbara Foundation
1111 Chapala Street, Suite 200
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 880-9353
pwiggins@sbfoundation.org
sbfoundation.org
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 880-9353
pwiggins@sbfoundation.org
sbfoundation.org
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Posted on behalf of Phylene Wiggins, Senior Director of Community Investments
Santa Barbara Foundation
