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10/10/2015  |   8:30 AM - 9:45 AM   |  Andrew Foster Auditorium

A Sustainable Model to Increase Capacity in Vietnam to Serve Young Children With Hearing Loss

Sustainability is an important goal for any humanitarian program to ensure that the people served derive benefit from the effort long after the program is completed. Sustainability targets can also help with fundraising as grantors and donors look for evidence that their contributions will lend to lasting change. But what programming elements lead to sustainability? How do cultural and language differences factor into this goal? What considerations can help ensure the parties involved are working together to achieve sustainability? The Global Foundation for Children With Hearing Loss has been addressing these questions with a holistic model in Vietnam that emphasizes training and education in audiology, early intervention, and auditory-verbal practice while also providing equipment, resources, and other support to address the needs of children under 6 years of age with hearing loss in the country. Through the Global Foundation Vietnam Program, not only are the Vietnamese prepared to provide expert care to the children themselves, but they are empowered to share their knowledge with other professionals and families. The Program promotes collaboration between Vietnamese professionals across hearing health and education. Five years since Program inception, the Vietnamese are taking ownership of what they have learned to implement, improve, and otherwise fill gaps in their system of support for their young children with hearing loss. The presenter will outline how the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss created and implemented an educational model that has inspired a sustainable effort by the Vietnamese to address the needs of young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Insights and learnings will also be shared to help other humanitarians who have placed priority on sustainability factors in their own programs.

• Participants will be presented elements to consider in achieving sustainability in humanitarian programs
• Participants will learn about the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss and its model to address hearing health and education needs of young children with hearing loss in Vietnam

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Paige Stringer (Primary Presenter), Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss, paige@childrenwithhearingloss.org;
Paige Stringer is the Executive Director and Founder of the Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss. Born with a profound hearing loss, Ms. Stringer benefited from early intervention services when she was young. She started the Global Foundation in 2009 to help young children with hearing loss in low-resource countries access the early identification, hearing technology, and locally-based trained professionals they need to learn to achieve their full potential. Previously, Ms. Stringer held marketing and business development positions at Amazon.com and The Clorox Company. She also served as Director of Development and Communications for Listen and Talk, an early intervention program for children with hearing loss in Seattle. She served on the board of directors of the Coalition for Global Hearing Health from 2014-2016. Since 2015, she has served on two hearing health committees at the World Health Organization in Geneva. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington and her Master’s degree from the University of San Francisco. Ms. Stringer was honored with the 2014 Humanitarian Award by the American Academy of Audiology and the 2009 Oticon Focus on People Award.