R4 ALLIANCE
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Research
Few doubt the positive impacts our member’s programs have on the lives of Our Military Family. Many R4 member organizations have already made great strides in proving the efficacy of their work. The foundation has been laid through these members’ efforts for R4 to conduct large scale research that will have a significant enough data set to prove our effectiveness as an industry. Collectively, R4 Alliance members are a veritable force. R4 Alliance will achieve proven efficacy and increased support for therapeutic and community recreation service provision through:
• The use of common research and evaluation tools collecting a large body of evidence
• Publication of results in reputable medical journals
• Dissemination of results to be leverage with insurance companies and government entities showing the economic viability of our services.
The dissemination of these research results will then be leveraged with insurance providers and government entities to positively affect veterans’ healthcare reform on a nation scale.
Coordinated Care Network
R4 Alliance believes that in order to provide Our Military Family with the highest quality of care, an effective Coordinated Care Network must be established between civilian service providers.
A major challenge facing quality care to Our Military Family is the inability for service providers to communicate effectively. In addition to the revolving door of care providers, individuals have to essentially begin anew with each encounter with a family member; providing personal information every time they participate in a new program. Inversely, care providers spend countless hours collecting information that could be provided by other organizations and shared with other organizations to guide them through the care process. Most importantly, providers need a platform where they can facilitate a warm hand off when referring their clients to other organizations. A shared platform would enable providers to share crucial information on the successes achieved, barriers faced, and goals established during their program with other providers who plan to serve the same client.
To meet these challenges while respecting the privacy of our clients, R4 Alliance is developing a shared database where clients can choose what information is shared regarding their care. Service providers will then have the ability to gain valuable insight into the needs of their individual clients prior to participation. With the permission of each client, providers will have the opportunity to collaborate on aspects of care like: goals, progress, challenges, ability level, sports progression, and a host of other topics.
Education/Training
R4 Alliance is focused on providing comprehensive education and training opportunities to our membership. Our commitment is to provide the necessary tools for good programs become programs of excellence.
R4 will provide a variety of education and training opportunities helping members increase their ability to provide effective recreation services specific to their military participants needs. By collaboration with other member organizations, assistance will include staff and volunteer training, onsite program evaluation, tools for marketing and fundraising, and onsite business planning. These services will be provided through grants and scholarships available to our membership.
As we move forward, we will be providing additional peer to peer educational opportunities through Webinars, Workshops, Online Forums, Conferences, and more.
Economic Viability
It is our vision and our honor to provide R4 members with resources to better take care of our heroes. We are committed to providing economic viability for:
• members wanting to enhance the effectiveness of their services
• members with proven efficacy to expand their reach
Government healthcare programs are overburdened as Our Military Family grows daily, requiring ongoing support. The therapeutic and community recreation industry has seen monumental growth, but also struggles to meet the increasing need. Mounting evidence of the benefits of R4 member services warrants large scale economic support.
R4 Alliance recognizes the financial barriers that our members face. It is our focus to step forward providing financial support through partnership with corporate and individual contributors, through innovative and collaborative fundraising initiatives, and through the securing of grants and other support.
R4 provides focused funding for: research, education, training, program development, program expansion, business planning, and strategic development.
Standards of Excellence
R4 members agree to uphold Member Driven Standards of Excellence.
These are policies and ethical guidelines to help ensure the highest quality services and safeguard against unethical or ineffective practices. Our membership strives to ensure the highest quality therapeutic and community recreation, as well as other specialized services to exceed the expectations of Our Military Family.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
R4 formed as a Alliance made of programs of excellence joining forces to overcome barriers in providing quality therapeutic and community recreation programs, as well as other specialized services four Our Military Family. In assessing this industry we identified the following needs:
• The need for unified research efforts to prove service efficacy
• The need for establishing standards of practice and codes of ethics to improve service delivery
• The need for effective communication between service providers to create and maintain a quality
continuum of care
• The need to develop focused education and training protocol to improve the competence of the service
providers while meeting Our Military Family's needs
• The need to maintain economic viability while programs and networks are created and/or expanded
To meet these needs, R4 Alliance is set to accomplish the following objectives:
• Advocate member driven standards of excellence
• Conduct research proving the efficacy of our services on a national scale
• Provide professional education opportunities leveraging our combined experience and collective knowledge
• Create a continuum of care between service providers
• Ensure the economic viability of our member organizations
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Through multiple strategic planning session with R4 member organizations, we have developed strategies for accomplishing the above mentioned objectives. Detailed strategies for each objective are listed below.
Standards of Excellence
R4 members agree to uphold Member Driven Standards of Excellence. These are policy and ethical guidelines to help ensure the highest quality services and safeguard against unethical or ineffective practices. R4 members use our shared program evaluation to get client feedback on program quality ans assure all members are adhering to R4 standards. A detailed list can be viewed at http://r4alliance.org/standards-of-excellence/
Research
We as an industry need to collaborate our research efforts to gain the body of evidence needed to prove the efficacy our services. Collectively, R4 Alliance members are a veritable force. R4 Alliance will achieve proven efficacy and increased support for therapeutic and community recreation service provision through:
• The use of common research and evaluation tools collecting a large body of evidence
• Publication of results in medical journals
• Dissemination of results to be leverage with medical and government entities
Coordinated Care Network
In order to provide Our Military Family with the highest quality of care, an effective Coordinated Care Network must be established between service providers. A shared platform enables providers to share crucial information on the successes achieved, barriers faced, and goals established during their program.
R4 Alliance is developing a shared database in partnership with Unite Us where clients manage their own private information. With the permission of each client, providers will have the opportunity to collaborate on aspects of care like: goals, progress, challenges, ability level, sports progression, and a host of other topics.
Education and Training
Our commitment is to provide the necessary tools for good programs become programs of excellence. By collaboration with other member organizations, education includes staff and volunteer training, onsite program evaluation, tools for marketing and fundraising, and onsite business planning.
R4 provides additional peer to peer educational opportunities through Webinars, Workshops, Online Forums, Conferences, and more.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
R4 Alliance administrative staff (two full time/one part time) have a combined experience of over 20 years designing and facilitating therapeutic recreation programs, and over 35 years of experience in strategic planning, and business development. Additionally, our diverse Board of Directors is comprised of veterans, caregivers, successful entrepreneurs, and directors of top NPO's serving veterans.
The true power of collective impact is in the number of programs of excellence committed to this cause. Through leveraging our combined experience and collective knowledge all members have the opportunity to improve and thrive through collaboration.
As a collective voice, R4 Alliance has a greater influence to going corporate and foundation support. This is evident in our ability (in a short time) to garnish corporate support from sponsors like: Schultz Family Foundation, Northern Trust, Starbucks, Century Club, and more.
R4 has also been able to develop relationships wit government agencies to include: The Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Office of the Secretary of the Army, The VA Office of Therapeutic Recreation, and The VA Office of Adaptive Sports. We use the guidance of these offices to help ensure R4 is developing programs and systems that meet the needs of our government counterparts.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Standards of Excellence: R4 has established industry standards of excellence which all R4 members sign a contract to uphold. We have launched evaluation systems to ensure program quality across our membership
Research: R4 is collecting data on our first major research project with Clemson University studying the impact of recreation for veterans and their families
Education: R4 is hosting our 2nd annual membership conference, planning our first annual National Education Workshop, and starting peer education webinars
Continuum of Care: R4 has partnered with Unite Us to create our Continuum of Care database where member practitioners can collaborate on individual care plans. The foundation and software platform are developed. This program will be implemented once R4 has garnished the funds needed provide this serve to all members.
Economic Viability: R4 has secured over $300,000 of support from individuals, foundations, and corporations. We are launching new awareness and fundraising initiatives to help provide financial support to our members.
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R4 ALLIANCE
Board of directorsas of 12/02/2016
George (Chip) Fisher IV
R4 Alliance
Term: 2016 - 2018
Sarah Wade
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, Defense Medical Research and Development Program, Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine Joint Program Committee
Jeannette D-Mayer
Hayward L Sawyer
Alpha Oilfield Services
Tony Kelly
R4 Alliance
Bill Potter
R4 Alliance
George (Chip) B. Fisher
R4 Alliance
David Booth
R4 Alliance/ Combat Veterans to Careers
Lewis Runnion
R4 Alliance
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes