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. We will bring highlights from our newest book, Getting Your Healthcare House in Order.  Read further for dates and locations.

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.

Register for one of these "Train the Trainer" workshops and be looking for future events!

• September 15, 2011 from 9:00am-4:00pm and September 16 from 9:00am-12:00pm at Carolina Meadows, Chapel Hill NC. Click here to register.
• October 14, 2011 from 8:30am-5:00pm at Duplin Conference Center of Scotland Memorial Hospital  We will be hosting a workshop, Laurinburg, NC.  Sponsored by Hospice of Scotland County.
• November 18, 2011 from 8:30am-5:00pm at River Landing Retirement Community, Colfax, NC.

African American focused events:

• September 10, 2011 from 8:30am-5:00pm hosted by Hospice of Randolph county, Asheboro, NC.
• October 22, 2011 from 8:30am-5:00pm hosted by Martin Street Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC.
• October 29, 2011 from 8:30am-5:00pm hosted by Cape Fear Hospice, Wilmington, NC.

Space is limited, so register today by contacting Jane Walters at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or (919) 402-1844.

We are giving this workshop to you, to teach in your community at no cost to you. Throughout 2011, we will be offering our brand new Finding Your Voice: Train the Trainer certification throughout North Carolina. All training materials include the Teacher's Curriculum Guide, 10 participant workshop companion guides and all PowerPoints and educational modules needed to teach the class.

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.  Also, for more information on the content of this training, contact Tiffany Christensen at (919) 928-2958 or  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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

More about Train the Trainer:

In 2010, a Train the Trainer curriculum was created and Project Compassion began to certify trainees to teach "Finding Your Voice" within their own communities.Trainees can be healthcare professionals, chaplains, social workers, lay leaders and community members interested in holding workshops and empowering old friends, new friends and neighbors with the skills needed to navigate the healthcare maze. Included in this training are: 

• 1.5 days training under the guidance of Tiffany Christensen
• A full Instructor's Manual outlining all workshop content
• PowerPoint slides that can be edited as desired
• Six educational videos created just for this workshop 
• One DVD from Carolina Donor Services on the power of donation
• Evaluation forms for various lengths of workshops
• All hand outs 
• Marketing materials

This is a complete Train the Trainer and it is NO COST TO THE TRAINEES! All of the materials are grant funded and our hosts provide the space and the food for our 1.5 day training. After the training, the new Finding Your Voice Instructors are certified to take this workshop and use it within their congregations, book clubs, support groups...anywhere they have a natural community of people who can benefit from becoming a wiser, more empowered healthcare consumer. (That's all of us!) 

Don't take our word for it, here's what people are saying about Train the Trainer:

"I’m truly amazed at how vital the information you shared is, and somewhat disappointed to realize that if not for this workshop I would be one of the many who are completely unaware of these tools needed to navigate the healthcare system – and many other systems for that matter.  I’ve shared what I’ve learned with a handful of relatives and close friends, and I hope to continue sharing what I have learned with those around me."

"Your story as well is what strikes me as the most intriguing part of the workshop.  That alone helped me to learn so much more, and I wouldn’t change a thing about how you presented. Thanks so much for coming to do the Train the Trainer workshop with my team yesterday.  I wanted to let you know personally how much I took away from it, and I hope to carry it on to so many others."  

History of "Finding Your Voice":

In 2008, James Brooks, MDiv, and Tiffany Christensen began developing a new workshop for patients, families and community members. Christensen, a life-long patient who has received two double lung transplants due to a genetic illness, recognized that the world of healthcare is complicated, intimidating and anything but "user friendly." James Brooks had witnessed this struggle personally and in the lives of the patients and families Project Compassion had served over the years. Together they created a new resource for North Carolinians: "Finding Your Voice in the Healthcare Maze."