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A Good Life: Stories and Principles

A Good Life: Stories and Principles. Vickie Cammack www.planinstitute.ca. What happens to my relative when I die?. Parent concerns for disabled children:. Safety and security Protect quality of life. Dilemmas:. Limitations of social services & programs Closure of institutions

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A Good Life: Stories and Principles

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  1. A Good Life: Stories and Principles Vickie Cammack www.planinstitute.ca

  2. What happens to my relative when I die? Parent concerns for disabled children: • Safety and security • Protect quality of life Dilemmas: • Limitations of social services & programs • Closure of institutions • Limited government finances • Rationing of health care

  3. Planning for the future changes the present

  4. 4 Core Values • Self-sufficiency – independence from government • Family directed – high accountability & flexibility • Relationships are the key to a good life • Contribution equals citizenship

  5. Member Services • Future planning consultation • Personal network facilitation • Advocacy and monitoring • Lifetime commitment

  6. A Good Life • Friends and family • A home that offers sanctuary • Choice • Meaningful contribution • Wealth

  7. Lessons • Isolation is a major handicap • Contribution leads to ‘full citizenship’ • Two pillars to secure the future - social economic well being

  8. Connector Tasks • Weaving • Facilitating • Coordinating • Monitoring and evaluating

  9. No disability precludes relationships

  10. Networks can be challenging

  11. CONTRIBUTION EQUALS CITIZENSHIP And there’s a tremendous sorrow for a human being who doesn’t find a way to give. One of the worst sufferings is not to find a way to love or a place to work and give of your heart and being. Jack Kornfield

  12. Registered Disability Savings Plan • Impact: 800,000 • $200,000 lifetime contribution limit • Matching Disability Savings Grant • Disability Savings Bond for low income • Disability Benefits implications: • Raise asset limit • Eliminate claw back • Opens space for new set of innovations

  13. Registered Disability Savings Plan Belonging Initiative NO ONE ALONE FUND Pooled Trust Fund $80 billion $80 billion

  14. PLAN: A Social Innovation • A different question: What is agood life? • A different model: Social enterprise • A different paradigm: Contribution and citizenship

  15. Sustainability • Is more than the viability and survival of an enterprise, innovation or organization • Means being intentional about: • Structural, systemic, institutional and legislative change • Cultural and attitudinal shift

  16. Impact, Durability and Scale • How can the processes and values of PLAN become part of the ‘water supply’? • How can alterations of practice, policy and funding contribute to structural change?

  17. PLAN’S Sustainability Objectives • Embed full citizen perspective in structures and institutions • Change cultural consciousness from needs and inability to contribution and participation

  18. The Way Forward • Understanding and mobilizing our financial assets • Move away from small scale silos to collaboration in scale within our sector • Collaboration with Banks and other Financial Institutions; Academics; Government; Foundations; Corporations

  19. PLAN Resources • www.planinstitute.ca • www.plan.ca • www.philia.ca • www.nurturingbelonging.ca • www.tiesthatbind.ca • www.socialaudit.ca • www.tyze.org

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