Penn State Outreach partnered with the Centre County Geriatric Interest Network (GIN) to host a screening of Almost Home last night in State College, PA. Over 40 people came out on a cold and icy night to watch the film and engage in a dialogue afterwards about how to put Centre County at the forefront of "whole community" culture change efforts.

There were five or six students and the same number of faculty, 15 or so individuals from provider organizations, a handful of public television folks, and several residents from one local CCRC. One elder talked about the need to get those younger 60 and 70 yr olds involved in culture change!

Thanks to support from the Commonwealth Fund and the Retirement Research Foundation, the Pioneer Network will be providing our Getting Started resource to organizations in Centre County who commit to sharing their experiences with it on-line in a special section of the Pioneer Exchange (not visible to the general public). We're already pursuing a similar "learning cohort" approach with a half dozen organizations in Oregon, and we hope to work with many other communities around the country in a similar manner. More on this strategy later...