Patty Takawira

So getting people connected with the resources that exist and just building that network

so that we can all work together to influence, you know, like by 2060, these numbers are supposed to double.

We have to do something about that.

And I can tell you, you know, from a policy perspective, we have a tiny amount of money to support community partners to do this work.

So like, for an example, we have an Alzheimer's awareness campaign.

And we recently put out an RFP, request for proposals for community organizations, and we can fund four, right?

There were like 40 applications, 40 proposals, and they were all great.

You know, people are ready.

And this was like an implementation ready project we were asking them to do with a short timeframe.

And people like these organizations are ready to go, but they can't just, you know, they need support to be able to do this.

So to me, that's like,

We have the connections and the collaboration, but I think that just more support is needed to address this topic.