Eureka!
Our group just had what they call an Eureka Moment. Up until this point, we were known as the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC)/Saint Elizabeth Culture Change Coalition since they were the organisations that originally made up our membership. However, as our membership grew beyond the CCAC and Saint Elizabeth, these new members (from the Alzheimer Society, ONE CARE, etc) did not know where they fit into this coalition. Was their organisations involved in a culture change initiative, or were they just helping Saint Elizabeth and the CCAC? After much reflection, we came to realise that our Coalition is not just about the South West CCAC and Saint Elizabeth, but rather, we represented several agencies from with the Huron County that support persons with dementia and their families. Each agency has a specific and critical role to play, and often these roles over lap and intertwine. We decided that a name change was necessary and came up with the new name, the Huron County CCC. This then led to a conceptualisation on our purpose:
We are a collaboration of organisations that are drawing upon our strengths in order to improve home and community care for people with dementia, their families, and the staff working in these settings.
The establishment of a new identity helped us to have a better sense of who we are, what we are doing, and how we are getting there. Sometimes you have to take a step back in order to move forward.
