Teach "Finding Your Voice in the Healthcare Maze" in Your Community with "Train the Trainer" Workshops!

The "Finding Your Voice" workshop empowers participants with concrete strategies, skill building exercises and rare insights into healthcare.  This Train the Trainer workshop gives participants the tools and confidence to go back into their community.

Finding Your Voice: Train the Trainer is also collaborating with our Circles of Care initiative to offer this workshop with a focus on health disparities and cultural differences within the African American community when discussing advance care planning, patient advocacy and organ, eye, and tissue donation.

As a participant you will:

• Learn the need for patient advocacy and be given skills and tools needed to use your voice, even in disorienting situations.
• Strategically approach new ways to think about Advance Care Planning documents and practice having conversations with families about their wishes.
• Receive a rare education about the impact of organ/eye/tissue donation and explore the myths and misconceptions that permeate our culture.

We also have, in collaboration with our Circles of Care Initiative, a workshop focused around the African American community.  Stacie Peacock and Tiffany wrote the workbook, Getting Your Healthcare House in Order, with a focus on health disparities and cultural differences within the African American community when discussing these topics.

HOST AN EVENT:  If you or your organization would like to host a Train the Trainer, please email us for more information at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call919-402-1844.

This training is developed for community members and professionals interested in patient empowerment through education and practicing skills.

Finding Your Voice is a groundbreaking initiative that integrates patient advocacy, advance care planning and organ/tissue donation education. 

Created by Tiffany Christensen, author of Sick Girl Speaks (www.sickgirlspeaks.com) and We Are the Change, and James Brooks, former Executive Director of Project Compassion, Finding Your Voice reaches patients, caregivers, consumers, healthcare students and professionals. 

Photo:  Tiffany Christensen, two-time double lung transplant recipient, advocates for organ/tissue donation with legislators at the NC State Legislature building.

In 2009, Finding Your Voice expanded statewide, reaching people in 17 cities across  NC.  In 2010 we are offering workshops and presentations for patients, caregivers, health care students and health care professionals. 

We are piloting a new Train the Trainer curriculum and workshop for community leaders.  Click here to find out more information on the first Finding Your Voice: Train the Trainer.

“Finding Your Voice in the Healthcare Maze” is a 3-part series for patients, caregivers and community members that helps participants learn how to be proactive patient advocates.

During one workshop series in Colfax, NC, participants focused in on the challenges patients face when they do not have an advocate.  As they discussed how difficult it is to make treatment choices, communicating end-of-life decisions and make organ/tissue donation wishes known without an advocate in place, several participants became deeply emotional.

Educating healthcare students and professionals is a cornerstone of Finding Your Voice. In 2009 over 1,000 future and current physicians, nurses, social workers and other health care professionals learned about the patient perspective, advocacy, advance care planning and organ/tissue donation through Finding Your Voice.

Remarkably, this vital information is seldom (and in many cases never) part of their professional or continuing education.