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Project Compassion creates community and provides support
for people living with serious illness, caregiving, end of life and grief.

To learn more about Project Compassion, Click here!

 

 

Educational Opportunities:

 

Being Alone by Choice or by Chance:
Crafting a Meaningful Life

Saturday, September 6, 2008 from 9 am - 1 pm
The Seymour Center, 2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill, NC

 Click here for more information.

Click here to go directly to online registration.  

 

 

 

Finding Your Voice:  An Interactive Workshop Series
Facilitated by Tiffany Christensen  in September and October

September 10, 17, & 24 from 1 pm - 4 pm at
 Millbrook United Methodist Church , Raleigh


October 6, 13, & 20 from 9 am – 12 pm at
  Carolina Meadows, Chapel Hill

November 4, 11, 18, & 25 from 1 pm – 3 pm at
 The Cedars, Chapel Hill

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To register, email tiffany@project-compassion.org or call 919-402-1844  

 

 

Support Team Development Conference

Thursday, September 18 and Friday, September 19
9:00 am – 4:00 pm each day
Carolina Meadows, 100 Carolina Meadows, Chapel Hill , NC

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Click here to go directly to online registration.

 

 

An Evening With Compassion:
A Night at the Improv

Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 6pm, The Carolina Club, UNC Chapel Hill

Click here for more information.

Click here to go directly to online registration.

 

 

Responding to Traumatic Grief: Compassionate and Practical Approaches to Healing the Torn Heart

Friday, November 7, 2008  from 9 am – 4 pm
Trinity United Methodist Church , 215 N. Church St. , Durham , NC

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Click here to go directly to online registration.  

 

 

Support Team Guidebook

The Support Team Guidebook provides a how-to plan for training and organizing volunteers into Support Teams, a proven method of equipping and sustaining volunteers for intentional, ongoing caring for persons with health care concerns.  Developed by the Support Team Network is now distributed by Project Compassion. 

 

 For more information, click here. 

To order copies in print or download form, click here. 

 

   

Support Team Opportunities

                            
Go to the full story on NPR's Web site.Learn about at team approach to volunteer caregiving 
by clicki.

Read stories about how Support Teams make a difference 
by clicking here                                

Volunteer to join a Support Team by clicking here.  

 

 


Read “Building Bridges”, a feature article in the Duke Divinity School magazine that tells the story of one young woman’s Support Team and features our intern Sonia Norris, by clicking here.   


     Sonia Norris with Elizabeth

 

 
  

Project Compassion has partnered with Lotsa Helping Hands to offer a free online calendar and online coordination for Support Teams!  To check out this new service, click here 

 

 

Learn more about new Support Teams for Teens and Young Adults Helping People with Cancer by clicking here. 

Learn more about the Support Team approach by clicking here.

Volunteer to serve on a Support Team, click here.

 

 

Advance Care Planning
                             
Learn more about advance care planning resources and support  

Order copies of Dr. Couch’s workbook:  Getting It Together, Planning Ahead or Passing On Thoughtfully by clicking here. 

Access free advance directives for all 50 states click here.

Dr. Trudy Couch (seated), author of Getting It Together

 

 

Learn about the Power of a Donation

Read Sandy’s Story  

Learn more about the impact your donation makes

Click here to make a donation now.

Sandy Hoke had a Support Team

for a year and a half


     

 
 

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