We Have Georgia On Our Mind!
The Thriving4Life nonprofit organization is working to bring its Arts4Life program to Georgia Skilled Nursing Centers via a CMP grant to be funded by CMS - at no cost to your care center!
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Status: 116 Skilled Nursing Centers in Georgia have chosen to participate in the Art4Life Program grant. However, we've been informed that all federally funded grants are currently on hold. As soon as we're given the green light to proceed, we'll be in touch with you. We're all hoping that will happen soon!
HOW CAN YOUR CARE CENTER PARTICIPATE?
CMS now requires skilled nursing centers wishing to participate in a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) funded grant to provide a letter of support / intent in advance of the project being approved by the State and by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
The letters of support / intent for this project are to be emailed to Thriving4Life to be included in the grant application package. Print and use our template above to say your skilled nursing center wants to be included.
You cannot decide to participate after the grant application is submitted by Thriving4Life. Only those skilled nursing centers that have provided letters in advance will be gifted this program and grant opportunity.
Individual centers may submit a letter. Or, corporations may submit one letter to include multiple care centers. Please do not mail your letter to the CMP Grant Manager in Georgia. Email it to Thriving4Life using the email address provided at the top of the letter.
Just print the letter and complete the requested information on company letterhead if you have it. Otherwise, print on plain paper. The letter must be completed by someone in leadership / management within your individual care center or corporation.
Current CMP grant guidelines indicate that skilled nursing centers may participate in multiple grant funded projects at the same time that are within the "Activities to Increase Quality of Life" category. However, each project must be listed under a different "topic." This project's topic is "Art."
Your care center is not charged a fee to partcipate in CMP grant funded projects. The cost of participation is applied to your CMP Grant Budget provided by CMS.
WHAT IS THE ARTS4LIFE PROGRAM?
Arts4Life is a therapeutic, expressive modaility with attention to art mediums and techniques best used with diverse populations. It's based on the principles of art therapy. This program differs from arts and crafts. Expressive art-making helps to foster a sense of personal autonomy and empowerment, self-expression, and an alternative means of communication.
We coupling our art program along with our music program. It isn't just "Art"4 Life. It's now "Arts4Life." We all have a life story filled with thoughts, emotions, experiences, and memories. Expressive art and personalized music provide an opportunity to relive and share our stories - in a creative way. There's a misconception that we lose our ability to be creative as we age, but research dispels that theory.
WHAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAM
& GRANT, IF APPROVED? WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR CARE CENTER?
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The Thriving4Life organization will train your staff to provide this therapeutic program to the individuals you serve. From watercolors to colored pencils to chalk pastels and an array of other art mediums - coupled with our personalized music program - this educational training is a combination of listening, learning, and a hands-on approach to establishing and maintaining a successful, proven, therapeutic, expressive art and music program that can remain a constant within your care center - benefitting residents, families, and staff.
What's Included
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- 2 or 3-Year Grant Period (depending on # of nursing centers participating)
- Staff Training Workshop via Live Webinar (Zoom) to facilitate the program. 2 to 10 staff from any disciplines/departments
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Access to Recorded, On-Demand Art-Based Exercises with an Art Therapist
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Access to Recorded, On-Demand Training specific to our personalized music program
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Refresher Training Opportunities
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High Quality Art Materials for 20 Residents
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Manual including Resources, Step-by-Step Checklist, and Implementation Guide
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Written Acknowledgement of Participation for Staff
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4 Continuing Education Hours - Multiple Disciplines
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Care Center Listed on our "Participating Communities" page via our website - so others can find you!
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Program Support
What's Required
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We’ve gone to great lengths to minimize and simplify requirements. We provide the forms with most questions being a 1 to 5 or a yes/no with no reporting writing.
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Training Data: Pre and post-training questionnaire for staff to evaluate content and benefit to staff.
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Resident Impact Data: 2 Short Forms to be completed on a “sampling” of participants. Staff can choose no more than 10 residents or a max of 5 to be in their “Data Group." No matter how many residents are participating in art sessions, only a sampling are followed for impact. Reporting Periods: Baseline, at 3-Months & 6-Months. That’s it!
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Satisfaction Survey: A 1-page document reported at the 9-Month mark. Staff, residents, and/or family may complete. Only 1 survey is required, but a center can submit as many as they like.
WHEN WILL THIS PROJECT BEGIN IN GEORGIA?
Grants take months to secure. Once approved, we anticipate the project could begin in approximately August of 2025.
WHAT RESULTS HAVE SKILLED NURSING CENTERS REALIZED WITH THE ART4LIFE PROGRAM?
Check out our knock-your-socks-off results from South Carolina and Tennessee projects. We've seen increased communication, positive interactions, enhanced staff-resident relations, enhanced quality of life, increased engagement and socialization, decreased depression and behaviors, reduced anxiety, reduced antipsychotic med use, and more.
APPROVED FOR 4 CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS
The Art4Life program training has been approved for CE Hours. Who's eligible? Administrators, Nursing, Activities/Life Enrichment, Social Services, Therapy and Medical Services Staff. However, any staff member from any department may be part of the Art4Life team, if they complete the required trainings.
YOUR ORGANIZATION WILL BE ADDED TO OUR LIST OF PARTICIPATING CENTERS
Thriving4Life will add your care center's name and contact information to our list of Art4Life program participating communities - once the project is approved and your care center completes program training. We do this to spotlight care centers that go beyond basic care to provide therapeutic programs to their residents. Take a look at our listing in other states!
This initiative for Georgia Skilled Nursing Centers is a program of the Thriving4Life nonprofit organization.
Upon grant approval, funding to be provided compliments of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in partnership with the Georgia Department of Community Health - Healthcare Facility Regulation Division.