Leadership
Strategic
Investment Creates Community
25 Project Compassion Leaders gathered to begin
charting our Blueprint for the Future.
Project
Compassion’s Impact
When community leaders
and volunteers founded Project Compassion nearly five years ago, we made a strategic
decision to invest our resources in creating community for
people living with serious illness, caregiving, end of life, and grief.
Our investment has now yielded significant results:
·
Over 80 Support Teams with 625 volunteers provided 15,000
hours of volunteer caregiving for 250 individuals since 2002.
·
More than 2500 individuals now participate in community
engagement events or access
educational resources each year.
·
Our network of 125 volunteer advance care planning
facilitators helps 2000 people each year with health care decisions.
·
Over 3000 copies of Passing on Thoughtfully have been
distributed nationally in 2005.
The
Growing Need
As proud as we are of our impact so far, the needs we see every day
far outweigh our current capacity.
·
Nearly 1 in every 4 adults in NC provides
caregiving for someone living with a serious or chronic illness.
·
Family caregivers average 4-10 years of caregiving for
each person facing serious illness.
·
70,000 people die each year in NC;
90% die because of illness.
·
At some point in our lives, all of us will deal
with serious illness, end of life, and grief.
Looking
to the Future
·
In 20 years, our older adult population in NC will double.
·
Orange County expects a 131% increase in seniors by 2020.
The
time to act is now.
Blueprint
for the Future
In response to the current and
growing need, Project Compassion’s leadership has charted our Blueprint for
the Future. With help from Third
Space Studio, we engaged in a six month process to plan ahead in four key areas:
desired impact, program delivery strategies, leadership, and
resources.
Based on this strategic work,
we are now prepared to:
·
Expand our Support Team Initiative into a
comprehensive community-wide network.
·
Diversify our educational offerings to
include a full menu of events and resources for adults, teens, and children.
·
Grow our use of the arts and storytelling as
we engage people in meaningful
ways.
·
Develop our new “whole-life” approach to
planning ahead, integrating resources and programs on planning
ahead with our advance care planning consult services.
Board of Directors
Sandi Jarr, RN, MSN, Chair
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Pamela Nielsen Brehler, CSA, Treasurer
Personal Finances Management
Heather Altman, MPH,
Secretary
Carol Woods Retirement Community
Tony Galanos, MD
Duke
University Health System
Kathy
Hartman
Clutter
Be Gone
Mary
Beth Hernandez, MA
University
of North Carolina School of Social Work
Beth Logan, JD
Logan and Murrell, PLLC
Bobbi Marks, RN, MS, CHE
University of
North Carolina Hospitals
Elinor Williams, MSW
Advisory
Committee
Linda
Belans
Duke
University Health System
Robin
Smith Berger, RN, BSN
Teresa
Blue, BSN
Ursula
Capewell, MSN, RN, AOCN
Duke
University Health System
Bobbie Gray, MPA
Carolina Meadows Retirement Community
Chasie Harris
Marilyn
Hartman, PhD
University
of North Carolina
Carol
Henderson
Author,
Losing Malcolm
Martha
Henderson, MSN, RN, AOCN
Lynne
Jaffe
Katherine
C. Leith, MEd
Orange
County Department on Aging
Judy A. Lipa, MS
UNC
Hospice
Mary
B. Sullivan, ChFC
Janet
Turchi, MA
Executive Director
James
L. Brooks, MDiv
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