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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:

 

Advocacy in Action:  Creating Strategies 
for the Modern Medical Maze
 

Friday, March 7, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Carol Woods Assembly Hall, 750 Weaver Dairy Road,
Chapel Hill, NC
 

Click here for more information.

Click here to go directly to online registration.

 

 

“Celebrate the Sweet Things in Life” at the Sick Girl Speaks! Boutique Book Bash

Sunday, February 17, 2008 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Moshi Moshi Hair Salon at 416 West Franklin Street,
Chapel Hill, NC

Click here for more information. 

 

 

A Write Way to Wellness
with Author Ray McGinnis

 Monday, March 31, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
United Church in Chapel Hill
1321 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.,
Chapel Hill, NC

 Click here for more information.

Click here to go directly to online registration.

 

  

What Will Happen To Me?

A Workshop on End-of-Life Issues for Persons with
Developmental Disabilities

 Saturday, April 12, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The Seymour Center, 2551 Homestead Road,
Chapel Hill, NC
 

Click here for more information.

Click here to go directly to online registration.

 

Support Team Development Conference

Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, 9:00– 4:00
Carol Woods Assembly Hall, 750 Weaver Dairy Road,
Chapel Hill, NC

Click here for more information.

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
ng here.

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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