LIFEline Note
An
Update for LIFE Project Partners and Caring Communities
Helping
Kansans with advanced chronic and terminal illnesses live with dignity,
comfort and peace
January 19, 2005
Kansas LIFE Project Featured in
Journal of Palliative Medicine
Current issue features article on actions and advocacy
of the Caring Communities
The December 2004 (Vol.
7, No. 6) issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine includes
an article by Donna Bales, President and CEO of the LIFE Project, titled,
“The Kansas LIFE Project – Living Initiatives For End-of-Life Care.”
The article, on pages 846-853, highlights LIFE’s grassroots
coalitions and how they’ve demonstrated success in assuring local and
state initiatives have meaningful outcomes in our state. To view
the abstract, go to http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/jpm/7/6,
scroll down to “Original Articles” and check the box for “The Kansas LIFE
Project” article. JPM subscribers can login and request a copy
of the full text version.
Respecting
Choices® Training Available
through the LIFE Project
Certified
instructors available to teach the 2-day advance care planning training
to interested communities
Stacie Ogborn, Project Operations Manager of the LIFE Project, and Susan Davis, Community Services Mentor at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community in Manhattan, will conduct the Respecting Choices® Advance Care Planning Course for Facilitators January 21-22 in Manhattan. Members of three Caring Communities - Manhattan, Clay County and Washington County – have been invited to attend.
Stacie and Susan are two
of ten community leaders in Kansas who are now certified to teach the
course, as a result of completing the 3-day intensive Respecting Choices®
workshop sponsored by the LIFE Project in October of 2004. The Respecting
Choices® program was developed by Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation,
LaCrosse, Wisconsin, more than 10 years ago to further enhance the skills
of professionals and volunteers who facilitate end-of-life decision-making
conversations with patients and community members. The LIFE Project
has been talking with other communities who are interested in hosting
or participating in this training program and is exploring plans to host
a second statewide event later this year.
If your community coalition or organization would like to provide advance
care planning facilitator training to community volunteers, healthcare
professionals, clergy or other professionals, please contact Stacie at
the LIFE Project, (316) 263-6380, to discuss available instructors and
dates.
LIFE Project
1901
University - Wichita,
Kansas 67213-3325
316.263.6380
316.263.6542
fax
HELPLINE
(tollfree) 888-202-5433
888-202-LIFE
contact@lifeproject.org