The Go Wish Game: This is a do-it-yourself tool to "break the ice" and begin talking about end-of-life care at home or in groups with loved ones or freinds. Click here for more information about The Go Wish Game.
To assure your advance directive is available:
Coda has a service to put a copy of your completed advance directive on a wallet-sized CD-ROM for you to carry with you. Send us a copy of your advance directie, with a self-addressed return envelope with 60 cents postage and a donation. You can download and print a flyer about Coda's Advance Directive CD-ROM service:
A.D. CD-ROM Flyer (PDF format, 22 KB)
EMS DNR Form (PDF format, 96 KB)Coda's California AHCD form:
Advance Health Care Directive form (PDF format, 104 KB)
Coda's AHCD form instructions sheet:
AHCD Instructions (PDF format, 21 KB)
Speakers Bureau: Coda Alliance is seeking members who are available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics (advance care planning, pain control, legal and ethical issues, hospice care, communication with family and with physicians, and other topics) for a variety of audiences (service clubs, clergy, book-discussion groups, faith communities, etc.) For more information, contact Coda.
ALEPH Care: Assisted Living Education in Palliative and Hospice Care is Coda Alliance's newest project. We are piloting this program in assisted living facilities (also known as "RCFE's" Residental Care Facilities for the Elderly) in a comprehensive advance care planning quality improvement program. ALEPH Care we are engaging residents, their family members, and the facility staff with education and concrete steps that they can take to improve the care at the end of life. This progam is made possible by a grant from Archstone Foundation and ran January 2005 through March 2006.
Respecting Choices: (Advance Care Planning Facilitators' Training) Coda Alliance is presenting a training series on advance care planning facilitation skills. These trainings are funded in part by a special certificate from Rallying Points, a Robert-Wood-Johnson sponsored national initiative for community-based efforts in improving end-of-life care, and HCR Manor Care Foundation has provided funding for the local presentations. For upcoming Respecting Chioces trainings dates see Upcoming Events and Activites, or contact Coda.
Talking It Over: (Discussion Groups) We provided trained facilitators for local discussion groups on advance care planning. We no longer have grant funding that allows us to do this, but we can help you connect with other organizations and agencies that speak on this topic (eg hospice agencies, advance directive classes at local hospitals, and the county Ombudsman program). For more information, contact Coda.
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