Remembering When Conference

Remembering When™
A Fire and Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults Conference
November 15–17, 2009
Hyatt Regency, Boston, MA

Reaching Older Adults through Home Visits

NFPA is committed to helping communities reduce fire and fall injuries and deaths among older adults. Since 1999, communities throughout North America have implemented the Remembering When program, reaching thousands of older adults.

For the third year, NFPA will select representatives from up to 40 communities to attend the Remembering When Conference, which will emphasize reaching older adults through home visits, to ensure that the program reaches the most vulnerable of older adults. We are asking fire departments to partner with an agency whose main outreach to older adults is through home visits. Such agencies may include visiting nurse associations, home health care agencies, church outreach groups, and other organizations.

The application period for this conference has closed.

Here’s what we’re looking for from local communities:

A partnership to support the implementation of Remembering When at the local level.
A two-person team that includes the fire department and an agency serving older adults in the community through home visits, such as visiting nurses associations, home health care agencies, places of worship, or other groups. The partner agency must already have a home visit mechanism in place since it will conduct the home visits. After training in Boston, the fire department will train home visitors on the Remembering When program.
Partners must have the authority, commitment, and ability to oversee local implementation of the Remembering When program.

Here’s what you’ll receive:
Each Remembering When Conference Award is valued at more than $4,000 and includes:

A training workshop in Boston on November 15 through 17, 2009 for each two-member team. NFPA will cover the expense of travel, hotel, and group meals for each team. Attendance at all sessions is mandatory. All events and meals are funded for invited attendees only.
One Remembering When: Fire and Falls Prevention program curriculum for each team member.
One hundred “How to Prevent Fires” brochures for distribution to older adults.
One hundred “How to Prevent Falls” brochures for distribution to older adults.

Team Requirements
After the conference, each team will take what it’s learned back to its community. Specifically, each team will do the following:

The fire department will conduct a minimum of five group presentations.
The fire department will conduct at least two train-the-trainer sessions for the partner agency home visitors.
The home visitor agency will conduct at least 25 home visits.
The home visitor agency will integrate agreed-upon materials from the Remembering When program into its home visits.
Each team will submit a final report to NFPA, including a summary of how the agency integrated Remembering When materials into its home visits to all older adults served.

Questions? Call or e-mail Sharon Gamache, director of High-Risk Outreach Programs, +1 617 984-7286.