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2009-2010 Outreach Guide 

Read This First! An introduction to Outreach

Basic Outreach Strategies and Resources

Ad slick collection - full, 1/2 page ad templates with Caring Connections tag and without. Members should feel free to use these ads and to customize in any way that will help with their outreach efforts.

1. Hospice and palliative care message

2.  Hospice message

3. Palliative Care message
4. Advance care planning message
5. Hospice/Palliative Care Month quilt (full page)

Hospice/Palliative Care outreach materials - with the suggested theme Preserving a legacy... Treasuring memories. These materials may be use for National Hospice/Palliative Care month in November and all year long.

  • Article Collections:
  1. Ten Important Facts about Hospice Care you may not Know 
  2. Hospice Care in the US 
  3. Hospice and Palliative Care: Leaving a Legacy of Compassion
  4. Are You Traveling without a Map? A layperson’s guide to advance care planning
  5. How to Help a Grieving Loved One during the Holidays
  • PowerPoint Presentations:
  1. Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  2. Planning Ahead: Communicating End-of-Life Issues
  3. Advance Directives and End-of-Life Decisions  
  •  Bookmark Templates
  1. Hope, Dignity, Love
  • Media Outreach Documents:
  1. Hospice/Palliative Care Month press release
  2. Public service announcement radio scripts
  3. Feature press pitch smaple
  4. Letter to the editor
  5. Hospice/Palliative Care Month proclamation
  • Background documents - PDF's providing basic information about hospice:
  1. NHPCO Facts and Figures
  2. NHPCO Facts and Figures: Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Care in America
  3. about hospice Care
  4. Hospice Provides What Americans Want at the End of Life
  5. Common misconceptions about hospice
  6. The Medicare Hospice Benefit

Marketplace - Hospice/Palliative Care Month promotional items 

Caring Connections outreach materials -  a variety of outreach guides have been created by Caring Connections to help providers and coalitions reach out to diverse populations and communities. Additional materials are available at www.caringinfo.org/community but here are links to serveral of Caring Connections outreach guide pages at Caringinfo.org. 

  • Hospice Sabbath resources
  1. A Service of Reflection and Rememberance
  2. Additional Suggested Readings

Veterans Outreach

 

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

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