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Welcome to CaringCommunity.org—an online resource for people considering, planning for or engaged in end-of-life issues. This site was developed and is maintained by the Journey Project, a program of the Community Network for Appropriate Technologies, a nonprofit educational and charitable organization serving the Sonoma County, California region since 1978.
courtesy Midwest Bioethics Center
Through this site, you can download end of life care planning documents, including the End of Life Choices—Values Checklist, the Advance Health Care Directive and the PreHospital Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Form along with other helpful information. We also offer printer-friendly excerpts from Journey to Life’s End—A Traveler’s Guide (by Susan Keller, the Executive Director of the Community Network).
The Self-Help Education section provides articles addressing the full spectrum of life care issues including pain management, dying at home, life review, values-based end-of-life care planning, and more. There too we offer a variety of annotated links to other websites about health and well being, disease management, and a full spectrum of end of life issues. The Support Group clearinghouse provides easy access to related support group programs offered in the Sonoma County region.
Elsewhere on this site you can learn about the Journey Project Resource Center open to the public and located at the Sonoma County Environmental Center in downtown Santa Rosa. And you can access local community programs in the Sonoma County region that help care for the frail and dying and their caregivers. A number of the programs offer opportunities to volunteer or otherwise assist.
The End of Life Care Alliance of Sonoma County, now known as the Journey Project Coordinating Council, is a co-sponsor of this website and a Speakers Bureau for groups interested to learn more.
Professional users can find annotated links to online educational opportunities and organizations working to improve care at life’s end. Information concerning legislative issues, finances, and analysis of emerging models of care also may be found on this site.
Radio programs offering music appropriate for contemplation and easing people through the ending of life, as well as radio programs addressing substantive issues, are available here. You can also learn about Conversations, a program of the Community Network dedicated to inspiring, collecting and sharing converastions that make creative expression a dynamic component of a stable nurturing community.
We hope you will enjoy the site and find things of value to you and those for whom you care. Please let us know if you have suggestions or know of resources that should be included.
Thanks for stopping by and viewing what we have to offer.
