Events
Tools for Action: Our annual retreat to help communities around the nation improve the quality of
the end-of-life experience. PENDING!!!!! We may cancel….
Under Tools for Action: Agenda, Registration, Accommodations
August 6th-9th 2005
Gathering Resources to Keep Your Community Alive and Caring
…an opportunity to help your community improve the quality of the end-of-life experience…
To Register: Call 1-877-257-9970 or Register Online (link to registration form)
*Hear about programs from around the country!
*Feel the camaraderie of those on the forefront of great end-of-life work.
Program highlights include:
* Ira Byock, MD, on ‘Growing the Rest of the Way Up’
(Cultivating Clinical, Social and Cultural Maturation)
* ‘Where are the Funds?’ Should you start or invigorate a local hospice
foundation?
* ‘Enough.’ Really? Advance Care Planning Comes of Age
* From Pulpit to Bedside:Engaging Clergy in End-of-Life Care
* Palliative Programming: Different Approaches to Care
* Patrick Clary, MD, onMedicine Talk: Poetry and Healing
* Prescription for Song at the Bedside
* The Dirt on Childhood Grief
Review the complete agenda. (pdf)
In addition to invigorating programming, Tools for Action is a time to rejuvenate; enjoy Montana at its best!
Continuing Medical Education credits available for Physicians and Nurses.
Registration –
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http://www.lifes-end.org/toolsforaction_registration.phtml,
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Accommodations
****see website http://www.lifes-end.org/toolsforaction.phtml
Care Champions: Life’s End Institute along with The Hospice Care Foundation sponsors an annual award to honor excellence in end-of-life care in the Missoula community. This award recognizes those in the community who have reached beyond themselves to support someone at the end of life or someone suffering the loss of a loved one. Ten individuals were selected from a pool of community nominations to be the first recipients of Care Champions: The Tom King Award of Exemplary End-of-Life Care. The award bears the name of hospice chaplain, Tom King, who has long-served in the Missoula community.
View the 2005 Care Champions! (pdf)
Grief Institute: An annual collaboration between four Missoula-area organizations to promote grief
education in the community. The Grief Institute is designed for counselors, social workers, hospice workers, chaplains, and clergy.