"CCHHSI is a network of individuals and partner
organizations dedicated to building healthy and whole communities"
We
intend to create and establish a place that has good schools; good jobs; plenty
of parks; bikable/walkable routes; efficient public transport; sustainable
growth; access to quality healthcare; a vibrant arts and cultural life; a
locally-driven economy; and where people from different backgrounds join to
solve problems, work, laugh, and do life together. ...A community that is
continuously creating and improving those physical and social environments and
expanding those community resources that enable people to mutually support each
other and maximize everyone's potential. Whole simply means containing all
components; complete; not divided or disjointed; acting together; restored;
healed; well; sound; healthy; entire; not broken or fractured; unimpaired;
integral…Acting from and for the whole is challenging: As humans, part of
our default mode is naturally self-centered - we tend to see and interpret
everything through this lens of self. Our daily and civic discourse
usually reinforces this default mode. Our “discussions,” a word
whose roots mean to “break apart,” can reinforce conversations where we hold
onto and defend our self-centered view. It is when we move into a mode of Dialogue that
we can begin to see the Whole.
A
community is a group of people, often living in a defined geographic area, who
are connected by culture, values and/or norms, and who share common struggles
and dreams. "Community" includes neighborhoods, towns, regions,
workplaces, schools, faith and interest groups, associations and virtual
networks. How do we get healthy and whole communities? It is people working in
groups - collaboratively - that have the greatest potential, the most leverage,
for creating the conditions that lead to health and wholeness. It is an
ongoing process and commitment made up of intentional choices and actions that exists
to help people work together to build healthy, whole communities.
Communities
around the globe face common, vexing issues: improving economic conditions and
reducing poverty; revitalizing neighborhoods and the natural environment;
tackling chronic diseases largely caused by unhealthy lifestyles; cultivating
sustainable food systems; providing access to quality healthcare, and
addressing persistent inequities along racial and ethnic lines. Censenss Community
Initiatives believes it is at the community level, and within the context of
community, that we have the greatest opportunity to support the society.
This are CENSENSS
signature Initiative to supports highly innovative approaches to improving the
delivery of appropriate and high-quality community-based primary health care to
rural communities in Nigeria. We will cover the broad range of primary
prevention (including public health) and primary care services within the
communities, including health promotion and disease prevention; the diagnosis,
treatment, and management of chronic and episodic illness; rehabilitation support;
and end of life care. It will involve the coordination and provision of
integrated care provided by a range of health providers, including nurses,
social workers, pharmacists, dieticians, public health practitioners,
physicians and others in a range of community settings including people's
homes, healthcare clinics, physicians' offices, public health units, hospices,
and workplaces. It will be delivered in a way that is personal and population centred
and responsive to economic, social, language, cultural and gender differences.
Healthcare to all in resource constrained environment
necessitates service delivery in challenging environments. Often, funding
organization wish to reach out and help, but some of healthcare delivery
institutions and organizations faces the challenge of work load, or limited
capacity, or inadequate mechanism to access such funds. CCHHSI is committed to overcoming these issues through long-lasting
partnerships with likeminded organizations, to enable delivery of quality,
accessible and sustainable healthcare services. We will achieve this through
clinical based training to empower health workers to competently deal with
emerging issues, support of healthcare facilities with essential resources,
& comprehensive research and evaluations. To enable support to healthcare
services and programs, CCHHSI has
created a framework that allows funding organizations and service delivery
institutions connect and have mutual benefits. These include but not limited to
the following:
Clinical Training and Mentorship
Curative Medical Support
Training of Rural Community Nurses
CCHHSI Collaborative research activities
Rural Communities Supportive Programs
Supportive Projects in Urban Ghettos as well
CCHHSI will provide
a framework for the support of healthcare systems in Rural Communities in Nigeria
through partnerships to improve individual and community health. CCHHSI is committed to achieving our
mission through long-lasting partnerships with likeminded organizations, to enable
delivery of quality, accessible and sustainable healthcare services. We will achieve
this through: clinical based training to empower health workers to competently
deal with emerging issues, support of healthcare facilities with essential
resources, & comprehensive research and evaluations.
OUR VALUES
Partnership
CCHHSI seeks to
support health care facilities, organizations and institutions by linking them
to resources to help them fully serve their communities. Our focus is on
strengthening health care systems. Our key is to listen to our partners,
evaluate the engagement independently and make long lasting commitment.
Implementation and Sustainability
CCHHSI seeks to
invest in projects which strengthen the longitudinal presence of mission
institutions and programs within their communities. CCHHSI does this by making sure that resources go to support the
prioritized purpose and to the people intended with the aim of solving what is
known as the ‘last mile problem’.
Transparency, Accountability, and
Efficiency
CCHHSI has developed
systems that enable program implementation by a team of highly professional and
ethical individuals. In concert with CCHHSI board and our partner
organizations, institutions with proven records of success and accountability
are selected for support, with guidance from our donors. In addition to
selecting high-impact initiatives for sponsorship, CCHHSI will provide
effective oversight, marketing, fundraising and support at the lowest possible
cost.
To enable support to healthcare services and programs, CCHHSI has created a framework that allows funding organizations and service delivery institutions connect and have mutual benefits. CCHHSI does this through its various programs whose aim is to improve hygiene and sanitation in the local community, where poor practices can cause disease and death. This is achieved by holding seminars within different target groups in the community, for example women, old people and children. International volunteers working with CCHHSI have encouraged these groups to make positive changes in their lifestyle to combat poor health, hygiene and malnutrition. Volunteers will address the issues including but not limited to the following:
- Women's issues: pregnancy, child
birth, nutrition & breast cancer awareness;
- Disease prevention & recognition: Malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, dysentry & typhoid;
- Sex education;
- First aid;
- Water storage and purification.
- Dental checks
- Physiological support
- Eye checks
- Advocacy for epileptic
RURAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
This centre will be a leading innovator,
convener, partner, and driver of results in health and health care
improvement in rural Nigeria. At our core, we believe everyone should get the
best care and health possible. This passionate belief fuels our mission to
improve health and health care. We will partner with visionaries, leaders, and
front-line practitioners around the globe to spark bold, inventive ways to
improve the health of individuals and rural community’s populations. To advance
our mission, our work will be focused in five key areas:
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Improvement
Capability: Ensuring that improvement science
drives our work and that we extend the reach and impact to the improvement of
rural community
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Person-
and Family-Centred Care: Putting the patient and the
family at the heart of every decision and empowering them to be genuine
partners in their care
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Patient
Safety: Making care continually safer by
reducing harm and preventable mortality
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Quality,
Cost, and Value: Driving affordability and
sustainability through quality improvement
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Triple
Aim for Populations: Applying integrated
approaches to simultaneously improve care, improve population health, and
reduce costs per capita
We will create dynamic opportunities for
health care professionals to learn from, collaborate with, and be inspired by
expert faculty and colleagues throughout Nigeria. Our professional development programs— including conferences,
seminars, and audio and web-based programs — will inform every level of the support
structure. We are committed to developing students, the next generation of
improvers, through free courses. We will work with a wide range of entities —
whether health care facilities, entire health care systems, or governments — to
help them achieve significant results in quality, safety, and innovation. We
collaborate with these change agents on the front lines of care to accelerate
improvement in vital areas, including maternal and neonatal health, avoidable
hospital readmission, waste and cost reduction, person- and family-centred
care.
The idea for the Rural Development Centre
first came about as a means of addressing the suffering of vulnerable children
in communities, the need to support women whose rights were violated, and to
focus on key environmental concerns. We realized that by focusing on the needs
of rural people, a centre such as this could empower and benefit local
communities. This Centre will work to identify opportunities, locate resources
and establish appropriate partnerships to provide solutions to communities. We
will operate as an 'intake process' whereby communities identify local needs
and consult the centre on solutions and strategies for addressing needs. It is
understood that local people know their communities’ best and success is
greatest when they are empowered.
- CHILDREN: The
Centre is crucial in the different areas it works in because children are
orphaned everyday without family members who have the financial means to
support them. Children do not have access to appropriate education and health
care, and many of their caregivers are grandparents and elderly.
- WOMEN: Women
are a strong force in this area of the country, though their rights are
continuously violated. The Centre works to empower these women again.
- ENVIRONMENT: The communities in which Centre works also
experience ongoing issues with critically important environment issues, such as
clean drinking water, sanitation, water catchment problems protections, and
school building projects. The Centre will try to step in and source solutions
to address local needs.
CORE VALUE: The
Centre prohibits discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, tribalism, religion,
or gender on all its programs and activities. It encourages transparency,
accountability, good moral standing and compassion within all people who work
with them
RURAL CHILD
FRIENDLY HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE
This is a health care project concerned with the
physical, psychological and emotional needs of children and their families in
rural communities across Nigeria. While there have been improvements in some
clinical treatments, a visit to hospital or clinic is still a frightening and
traumatic experience for many children and their families across the Nigerian
State.
The
Initiative is using the mandate of the 'United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child' - UNCRC to define Child Friendly Healthcare by
promoting 'Standards' , each with several supporting components
(criteria), that encompass all aspects of health care provision for children.
These 'Standards' are for health care providers, organizations and/or
individuals, who have a duty to ensure that they are part of every health care
contact with a pregnant woman, or child and family in our rural communities.
These 'Standards' are globally applicable and apply whether the health
care contact takes place in the home, community, an out-patient health
facility, or in a residential health facility such as a hospital.
The Rural Child
Friendly Healthcare Initiative focuses on:
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Reducing
fear, anxiety and suffering in children and families
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Improving
their overall experience of health care
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Improving
mortality and morbidity
This project
will be advised and directed by a Steering Committee that
includes individuals and professionals of the various communities and
organizations majorly supporting and benefitting from the Initiative. A
framework for the promotion, assessment, support and acknowledgment of Child
Friendly Healthcare is currently being developed and piloted. The project
recognizes that health workers everywhere in our societies usually want to
provide the best possible care for children and families. However, they often
face many problems, do not feel empowered to make changes, and do not know
where or how to begin to address their situation. This initiative is trying to
develop ideas and approaches that could help to solve these difficulties.
Pilot Objectives
·
Define Rural
Child Healthcare using the Standards & supporting criteria
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Promote
Child Friendly Healthcare
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Assess Child
Friendly Healthcare (through self / external assessment)
·
Support and facilitate
Child Friendly Healthcare
·
Acknowledge
progress on Child Healthcare & best practice
·
Share ideas
and problem solving approaches
·
Advocacy and
evaluation where indicated