The Snow Approach Global Effect

Inclusive Community
- SAF invites everyone, with any connection to brain change, to the Hillsborough, NC community to see how we are changing the culture of dementia and overall brain change.
- Hillsborough is continuing to grow as a dementia friendly community as more and more are building skills given by the non-profit.
- While visiting the Snow Approach Foundation, one can see Teepa's skills in action through our multiple initiatives as we interact with people from all stages of brain change.
- Our goal would be to see visitors expanding this inclusive vision, in their own communities all over the world.
- We will no longer stand for the quality of life offered when we know what is possible here in our home.
- Building relationships through awareness, knowledge, and then skill is what is missing from almost every corner of the globe.

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 caregivers 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 a member of the Snow Approach Foundation Board of Directors provides you with a special opportunity 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

Working Mission Statement

The Snow Approach Foundation, Inc.’s mission is to foster the development of a neurodiverse, inclusive community where people living with various forms of dementia or other neurocognitive conditions and their caregivers are enabled to live fully to the best of their ability for the good of the whole community. Through a combination of services for people living with brain changes and those who support them, community members will gain awareness, appreciation, knowledge, and skills to adapt to brain changes at any age while living well in a supportive and accepting place.

What is the Snow Approach?

The Snow Approach is a three-pronged approach to care for neurocognitive conditions. While the approach is based primarily around brain changes that occur with dementia, it is relevant to a broader community concerned with temporary, long-term, or even positive brain changes. In the Snow Approach, people:

Learn how the brain works and what is meant by neuroplasticity, neurodiversity, and neurodegeneration
Understand what to expect—and how to adapt—as a person’s abilities evolve throughout brain-changing conditions, e.g., dementia, delirium, depression, or anxiety
Develop practical skills to improve communication, maximize participation, enhance relationships, and increase quality of life for all involved

The Foundation’s New 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

Longer-Range Plans

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

Our goal is to build a centrally located world-class center for inclusive community living. Much like the Dementia Village model in the Netherlands, this center will offer a wide range of meaningful activities and life-enriching opportunities. What’s unique about Our Gathering Place is that it will be embedded in the fabric of Hillsborough and surrounding areas, not a sequestered or isolated space. This multi-purpose setting would be 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).

The Snow Approach Global Effect

By Snow Approach Foundation, Inc.

The Snow Approach Global Effect