Thanks to a Greater Green Bay Community Foundation grant, institutions around Door County are giving you and your loved ones suffering from memory loss a chance to learn.

SPARK! is a cultural program for people with early to mid-stage memory loss and their care partners to stay engaged in their communities. The programs do not introduce new ideas but reinforce old ones through conversations and hands-on activities. Door County Maritime Museum Collections Coordinator Brennan Christianson had experience with the program before he arrived in Sturgeon Bay after volunteering with SPARK! in Green Bay at the Neville Public Museum.  While many SPARK! programs focus on one institution, Door County’s comprises other partners such as the Ephraim Historical Foundation and the Liberty Grove Historical Society. Christianson and the museum's education programs coordinator, Andrea Stromeyer, know the program's potential, especially regarding the number of partners signing on to participate.
 

SPARK! of Door County is funded by a grant from the Kopseker Trust at the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation. The next scheduled program, “Let’s Go Fishing!” is on Wednesday, April 17, at 10 a.m., at the Death’s Door Maritime Museum in Gills Rock.