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Contents:
1. Project Compassion Launches a Cutting Edge Guide to Patient Advocacy
2. Teach "Finding Your Voice in the Healthcare Maze" in Your Community!
3. Hurry to Register for Leadership Development Conference, September 23 – 24
4. Experience the Team Approach by Attending Support Team Orientation
5. Ask the Caregiving Coach – Margery Pabst wins 2010 “Caregiver Friendly Award”
6. Be Involved in Supporting Your Neighbors
7. Stacie Peacock Shares Tips on Supporting Someone Living with Illness
Articles:
1. Project Compassion Launches a Cutting Edge Guide to Patient Advocacy
"We are the Change: Transforming the Healthcare Experience through Partnership" is the result of Tiffany Christensen’s time learning about, experiencing  and researching the various ways we can partner for better care. Tiffany provides personal stories, practical information and tools for all 4 Circles of Advocacy; personal, system, community and political advocacy. This workbook is a true reflection of the shifting healthcare culture and the new, savvy patient mindset. Thoughtful exercises, useful information and cutting edge tools, this guide leads patients and families into strategic patient empowerment while giving healthcare professionals concrete ways to honor the patient/family as a part of the team.
Since Tiffany arrived at Project Compassion in 2008, she has been certified as a Respecting Choices Advance Care Planning Instructor and a TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer. Tiffany has also been interacting with a wide variety of healthcare professionals, patients and family members during meetings, conferences and other events. In addition, she has given hundreds of presentations on patient advocacy, patient safety, advance care planning and organ/eye/tissue donation.
In 2009, thanks to the generosity of the Triangle Community Foundation, Tiffany was given a grant so that she could share her accumulated experiences and insights through the written word.
This book normally sells for $18.50, but in celebration of its debut, we are offering the first 250 copies for $14.95! We have already sold half of our stock so, order yours at this big discount from www.project-compassion.org or www.sickgirlspeaks.com today!
2. Teach "Finding Your Voice in the Healthcare Maze" in Your Community!
"Finding Your Voice" is taking empowerment to another level! Since 2008, Tiffany Christensen and Project Compassion have been offering this groundbreaking consumer workshop all over North Carolina.
September 14 and 15, 9:00am – 4:00pm at Riverlanding Retirement Community, Colfax NC: 9 Spaces Available (near Winston-Salem)
November 4 and 5, 9:00am – 4:00pm, Laurinburg, NC (venue TBA): 10 Spaces Available
This interactive and dynamic workshop trains participants to:
1. Use unique and helpful skills so that they can be effective patient advocates,
2. Have essential conversations about advance care planning, and
3. Make important decisions about organ/eye/tissue donation.
We are giving this workshop to you, to teach in your community. For the rest of 2010, we will be offering our brand new Finding Your Voice: Train the Trainer certification throughout North Carolina. All training materials are at no cost to you. These include the Teacher's Curriculum Guide, 10 participant workshop companion guides and all PowerPoints and educational modules needed to teach the class.
Space is limited so reserve your seat at a Train the Trainer today! Contact Jane Walters: jane@project-compassion.org or 919.402.1844
If you or your organization would like to host a Train the Trainer, please email us for more information.
This training is developed for community members and professionals interested in patient empowerment through education and practicing skills.
Keep an eye out for more November Events!
3. Hurry to Register for Leadership Development Conference, September 23 – 24, 2010
Registration is almost over for our Support Team Development Conference in September.
The Support Team Development Conference is a two day interactive workshop designed to equip volunteer and organizational staff with a complete set of skills to organize, orient and support volunteer caregiving Support Teams. Project Compassion offers this conference in partnership with the national Support Team Network. Participants across the country have used this model successfully to multiply caregiving support.
The first day offers an overview of successful Support Team development. The focus is on understanding the team approach and learning how to organize and orient Support Teams in various settings. The second day focuses on how to connect teams with the persons they will serve and how to grow and sustain teams over time.
Thursday, September 23 and Friday, September 24, 2010, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Hosted by Carolina Meadows Retirement Community, Chapel Hill, NC
Cost for registration to NC residents is $125 for early registration (September 11); $150 if registered after the early-registration deadline. For those living outside of North Carolina, registration is $200. Registration fees include 16 hours of training, all materials, as well as continental breakfast and lunch for two days. Click here to register or email Steven Warnock at steven@project-compassion.org or call (919)402-1844.
4. Experience the Team Approach by Attending Support Team Orientation
If you would like to volunteer to be part of a Support Team, the first step is to attend a Support Team member orientation. In the Support Team orientation you gain an understanding of the team approach and how working as a team can increase what individuals are capable of doing.
During the 3 hour orientation we will cover the Support Team model and team approach, walk through ways to provide practical, social, quality of life, and emotional and/or spiritual support, how to set up healthy boundaries and limits, and how to support one another as a team over time.
Member orientations are held monthly, with the next orientation on Monday, August 30, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, at the Southwest Durham Library on Shannon Road. If you would like to attend this orientation click here, or to be notified of future orientations please email Steven Warnock, Support Team Initiative Director, at steven@project-compassion.org or call (919) 402-1844.
5. Ask the Caregiving Coach – Margery Pabst wins 2010 “Caregiver Friendly Award”
 Project Compassion’s Caregiving Coach, Margery Pabst is a nationally acclaimed author, speaker, and facilitator. Her fourth book, Enrich Your Caregiving Journey, won the 2010 “Caregiver Friendly Award” from Caregiver Magazine. In her book, she explores how successful caregivers take care of themselves while caring for others.
In Project Compassion’s online service – Ask the Caregiving Coach – Pabst responds to questions submitted by caregivers. Here are few questions Pabst has fielded recently on the webpage:
Question: I seem to be riding an emotional roller coaster since I became a caregiver. The ups and downs are really driving me crazy! What can I do? - Victoria
Question: I really liked your comments on collaboration and sharing responsibility with loved ones. Now I just have to do it. How do I get started? - Hank
Question: My sister may need to go into the hospital for a few days. What should I think about and plan for? - Jaclyn
To read Pabst’s responses to these and other questions click here
Email your question or comment for Ask the Caregiving Coach to CaregivingCoach@project-compassion.org. Learn more about Margery Pabst and Enrich Your Caregiving Journey at www.pivotalcrossings.com.
6. Be Involved in Supporting Your Neighbors
Durham – For more than 10 years, Jack took care of his mother and was her caregiver. Now as he is facing his own illness and journey, he finds himself alone. Jack has 3rd stage emphysema, cardiac and kidney problems, and cataracts. He is 64 yrs old living in southern Durham, and would greatly benefit from a team…
Click here to read more about Jack’s story and other Support Team opportunities…
7. Stacie Peacock Shares Tips on Supporting Someone Living with Illness
 Stacie highlights tips from the book, The Unbroken Circle:
Listen with an open heart. Because many thoughts, emotion and questions are possible, the way to understand is to begin with listening
Offer compassionate support. Keep your focus on the other person: his or her stories, quest ion, thoughts and feelings. Express your support, encouragement or love as the person faces these issues.
Be present. Fear of not knowing what to say keeps many people from having conversations with people who are very ill. Realize it’s your presence that matters most.
Listening, offering compassion, and being present are key elements that Circles of Care volunteers offer to those they support. Circles of Care has trained over 175 Durham, Wake, and Orange county residents on the support team model. They are encouraged to do what they enjoy to do when they are able to do it in a coordinated way. Each person works in their own talent and gift to provide practical, emotional, and spiritual support to someone living with a serious illness. A variety of skills are available when team members do what they enjoy.
Circles of Care support teams have provided transportation, yard work, meals, assistance with hobbies, faith studies, and social outings. People supported by Circles of Care have described the experience as being powerful, a blessing, encouraging, and some have said “the team has saved my life.”
Circles of Care creates support teams that provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support for African Americans facing a serious illness, and focuses on the total pain of the person wanting the care.
If you, an organization or congregation, want to give back to the community or know someone that may need our support please contact Stacie Peacock at 919-402-1844 (stacie@project-compassion.org).
Also, to learn more about Circles of Care teams or The Unbroken Circle, go to our website, www.project-compassion.org.
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