Do-Si-Donate: A Square-dance Fundraiser

Bring all your family and friends to this special event. Enjoy a live band and square dancing with a caller. We’ll have a cake walk, raffle prizes, a food truck and desserts. $5 suggested donation per person. All contributions benefit Snow Approach Foundation – a Hillsborough non-profit dedicated to education and community engagement serving people living with dementia. Thanks to Eno River Brewing for hosting @ 329 Emo Mountain Rd., Hillsborough.

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About the Event

When? April 12th, 2pm-5pm

Where? Eno River Brewery, 329 Eno Mountain Road, Hillsborough, NC

• Dancing
• Live Music and Calling!
• Raffles
• Food Trucks – A portion of the proceeds will benefit Snow Approach Foundation
• Cake Walk – Purchase tickets onsite to participate and proceeds will benefit Snow Approach Foundation

Buy a ticket, sponsor the event, enter the raffle, or simply donate!

About Us

Snow Approach Foundation

The Snow Approach Foundation is an innovative non-profit organization combating the problems of isolation, occupational deprivation, and institutionalization experienced by people living with dementia and related conditions and their care partners by creating customized community-based services that enable all members of the neurodiverse community to live longer and happier in the place they call home.

Being part of our community allows you to:

• Contribute to the success of the Foundation
• Make a positive impact in the lives of people living with dementia and other brain-changing conditions and their care partners
• Be a change agent for neurodiversity-affirming care
• Serve your community
• Expand your network and meet people with shared interests

The Snow Approach Foundation is a dynamic, community-based organization that needs the support and input of people with your experiences and perspectives.

Additional Background Information

Teepa Snow in North Carolina

Snow Approach Foundation is led by renowned dementia care expert and educator, Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA. Throughout her over-40-year career, Teepa has led numerous local, regional, national, and international aging initiatives. In light of the growing prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia worldwide, Teepa has partnered with countless families, communities, healthcare organizations, and educational programs to address evolving needs in dementia care. Together, Teepa and her partners have made profound impacts on the lives of people living with the disease and their myriad caregivers locally and globally. Members of the dementia care community credit Teepa’s teaching for shifting public awareness, attitudes, practice, and research toward a more positive approach to care, improving life for everyone involved.

Regardless of her work settings, Teepa has called this community home for over fifty years. She came to North Carolina to attend Duke University then UNC-CH. She and her husband raised their family in the Hillsborough area and now enjoy watching their grandchildren discover all our community has to offer. That is why Teepa believes Hillsborough is the perfect place for the next collaborative, local endeavor.

Purpose of the Foundation

Our purpose is to inspire hope, save lives, and improve quality of life for people living with brain changes (caused by dementia or another brain condition) and the community as a whole. The new non-profit organization will

• build on Hillsborough’s prior progress toward becoming a “dementia friendly community” and expand the concept of “dementia friendly” to a fully inclusive community-based model
• improve access to state-of-the-art information, services, and support so that all local residents may live fully in a neurodiverse community

What is the Snow Approach?

The Snow Approach is a three-pronged approach to care for neurocognitive conditions:

1. How Human Brains Work
2. Changes Likely with Neurodegenerative or Neurodiverse Conditions
3. Skills to Maintain or Build POSITIVE Relationships

The Foundation’s Programs

• • Brain Change Coalition – conversations, consultations, education, engagement opportunities, and training in the Snow Approach
  • Snow Approach Award Program – For Local Professionals – additional training and formal recognition for those who wish to develop a neurodiversity-affirming practice, along with a registry accessible to anyone seeking trained providers

• • Our Gathering Place – an open and inclusive community center and possible living space where learning happens, purposeful engagement opportunities abound, and people thrive with different strengths and abilities through all stages of life.

Our goal is to sustain our centrally located world-class center for inclusive community living. Much like the Dementia Village model in the Netherlands, our center strives to offer a wide range of meaningful activities and life-enriching opportunities. What’s unique about Our Gathering Place is that it is embedded in the fabric of Hillsborough, NC and surrounding areas, not a sequestered or isolated space. This multi-purpose setting is designed to enable individuals and their care partners to live longer and happier in the community (i.e., empower individuals and care partners with additional support, increase access to life-long interests, prevent isolation, reduce institutional care).

Access to Services

The Foundation offers many services as a COMPLIMENTARY service to residents of Hillsborough and the surrounding area, and some services are fee-based. The Foundation seeks donations to fund these services for anyone who is unable pay. The Foundation will establish a legacy program that will continue to benefit all people of Hillsborough, North Carolina, and the global community facing the challenges of neurodegeneration for the current generation and more to come.