Produced by Hospice Foundation of America, this video presentation and panel discussion will examine, using a case study approach, the ethical issues and dilemmas that emerge at the end-of-life when all the factors that influence care such as finances, laws, values, culture, and technology converge. The decisions that are made at the end-of-life affect not only the way that the person dies, but also the ways that survivors face the loss.

These decisions may influence staff caring for the patient – affecting morale and turnover consequently directly influencing patient care–and the families who are struggling with their grief. This program explores ethical dilemmas that are likely to arise at the end-of-life, the principles of ethical decision-making and the effects of these decisions on staff and families. Case studies will be used to illustrate ethical issues that will be addressed by the program panel.

Following the program, a local panel of experts will pick up where the discussion left off and take questions from the audience.
Local end-of-life care and other service providers–all of whom have received funding from Hospice Foundation–will be on hand with displays and information about their programs.

Attendance Fees:

$40, which includes lunch, by April 20; $45 after April 20 (with no refund for cancellation).
Parking is $2 from the meter at the University Center parking lot. 

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Optional:  End of Life Ethics book will be available for $20 with registration by April 11; $30 after that date.
Optional:  Three Continuing Education Units are available.
$35 at the conference, checks made out to Hospice Foundation of America; or
$25 online AFTER the conference using www.hospicefoundation.org.

Cancellation Policy:
You will receive a full refund if cancellation is received by April 20.  After that date, since we are committed at that point for catering and services, we are unable to provide a refund for cancellation.

2011 Best of Show
Nelly Kohlgruber
“The Me Tree”
Carmel River Elementary School

Individual Area Competitions:  View Photo Slideshow

Monterey
First Place Giovanni Vitale “Great Grandpa in the Park” Robert H. Down School	Second Place Siena Fisk “A Merry Christmas” Robert H. Down School	Third Place Lorenzo James Kavanogh Ramos “Hero’s of War” Robert H. Down School
Salinas Valley/Carmel
First Place Julia Bell “Our Big United Family” Washington Union Elementary School	Second Place Elizabeth McRae “My Grandpa’s Last Song” Carmel River School, Carmel	Third Place Olive De Luca “After The Rain” Carmel River School, Carmel
Hollister
First Place Madisson Ricker “The Summer Woods” Accelerated Achievement Academy	Second Place Ivette Robledo “My Brother” Accelerated Achievement Academy	Third Place Hannah Marie Mendoza “The Earth hero” Accelerated Achievement Academy
South County
First Place Brenda Alvarado-Ortiz “Freedom at Last!” Santa Lucia School, King City	Second Place Evelynn Maley Haley “My Loved One” Del Rey School, King City	Third Place Alberto Villa “You ment the world to me” Del Rey School, King City

For 2011, 105 entries were received! So many talented student artists! It was a very difficult choice so we congratulate each and every one who entered! Remember, if you see your name here, part of your prize is a complimentary Tree of Life light so please call us right away at 831-333-9023 to name your light in honor or in memory of someone.

Due to limited space, we can only display the placeholder selections here but please join us at the Trees of Life celebrations where all of the artwork will be on display. Bring your family and enjoy choral and musical performances, hot chocolate, cider, and cookies.

Here’s how the selections were made:
Each entry had to include at least one tree, of any kind. Submissions were judged on creativity, originality, drawing skills, and a brief description of the work.

A competition Best of Show was selected, as well as a first, second and third place from four participating regions in which Trees of Life lighting celebrations are held. Prizes and recognitions will be sent to each student artist’s school.

Thank you very much to all of the students who participated, and the teachers, school administrators and parents who engaged their students in the project of commemoration.

For more information or if you have questions, please call (831) 333-9025.

Hospice Foundation is proud to announce the awarding of $1,418,550 in grant funding to 12 local non-profit providers of hospice care and other specialized end-of-life care programs and services in Monterey and San Benito counties, Central Coast of California, for 2012.

This achievement is made possible because of our donors’ generous support.   Providers serving the needs of children and adults at the end of life will receive funding from Hospice Foundation to help sustain their programs or innovate their services to meet the growing need.   Special programs for Veterans and multi-lingual residents will also receive funding over the next 12 months.

The following organizations are funded for 2012:

• Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula – $534,450 for ongoing support of its home and Westland House hospice care for adults, in-hospital palliative care, and individual, group and family bereavement services, and chaplain and volunteer services.

• Central Coast Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice – $390,000 will fund hospice care for adults in Monterey and San Benito counties and funding for the We Honor Vets collaboration with Hospice of Santa Cruz County to reach U.S. military veterans.  It also funds Latino outreach and the development of multi-lingual materials.

• A collaborative award of $277,950 will fund Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services ($117,600), Children’s Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition/Partnership for Children($64,150), and Coastal Kids Home Care ($96,200)- Working together, these three providers will deliver a comprehensive program of care for critically and terminally ill children, as well as emotional, practical and bereavement support for their families.

•  Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, San Benito County – $53,450 will fund the palliative care program that provides pain and symptom management, psychological and spiritual care for its in-hospital patients, as well as its skilled nursing and residential care patients at the end of life.  Bereavement counseling for their families will also receive funding. 

• Central Coast HIV/AIDS Services – $48,100 will fund emotional support programs for people with AIDS who are at the end-of-life, and for their families or caregivers.

• Compassionate Care Alliance – $40,000 will provide operating support for CCA to conduct its community education programs on end-of-life issues, advance care directives, and the Physicians Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment outreach to physicians and other groups.

• Hospice of Santa Cruz County – $22,500 will fund hospice patient care and bereavement services for residents in North Monterey County.  This grant also funds the We Honor Vets outreach program in collaboration with Central Coast Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice that offers services and support to U.S. military veterans.

• Catholic Charities - $20,000will fund professional bereavement counseling for low-income residents of the Monterey Peninsula and North Monterey County who would otherwise not have access to treatment.

• Natividad Medical Foundation – $17,100 will fund the refurbishment of quiet spaces for family grief counseling, and for training of interpreters to communicate effectively with non-English-speaking patients, who are at the end-of-life, and with their families. 

• Alzheimer’s Association – $15,000 will fund training for family and professional caregivers on dementia issues, and provide  families with information, care consultation, community referrals, support groups, and respite services.  The goal is to raise awareness among caregivers about standards of compassionate end-of-life care for advanced dementia patients, including culturally competent care.

Since 1998, Hospice Foundation has awarded $19 million in grants locally to help create, develop and sustain a local network of organizations that provide emotional, bereavement, care-giving and hospice services for people at the end-of-life, and for their families.   Your donations are key to this effort.  Thank you for your support. 

Local author and grief counselor Judy Tatelbaum will present tips and information and answer your questions about coping with grief at the holidays.

In a comfortable, class-style setting, Hospice Foundation will present two free workshops, “Coping with Grief During the Holidays”:

• Saturday, Nov. 5
  Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 800 Cass Street, Monterey, 93940

• Saturday, Nov. 13
  St. Ansgar’s Lutheran Church, 72 East San Joaquin, Salinas, 93901.

Both programs are from 10 a.m. to noon.
Local author and grief counselor Judy Tatelbaum, MSW, will present tips and offer suggestions about how one can successfully navigate the holiday period’s social engagements and perceptions, and mark the remembrance of the person who has died.  Representatives from an array of local grief support groups that are funded by Hospice Foundation will be on hand to offer information about their programs and services.

Light morning refreshments will also be served.

Monday, November 21, 2011
8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Registration
Video Presentation 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Panel Discussion 11 a.m. to Noon
Adjourn at Noon

Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital Education Conference Center
5 Lower Ragsdale Drive at Ryan Ranch
Monterey, California

A live, local panel discussion will follow the video presentation.  We are pleased to have joining us on the panel:

William J. Morris, MD, MPH, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz.
Dr. Morris is one of Northern California’s foremost practicitioners in hospice and palliative medicine and he is a frequent speaker on the topic.  Board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Morris completed his medical education at the University of California, San Diego in 1989.  He completed his internship at the Universtiy of Maryland in 1990, and his preventive medicine residency at John Hopkins School of Public Health in 1992, and in internal medicine at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in 1994.

Deborah K. Kelly, MFT, Monterey
Deborah Kelly practices marriage and family therapy in Monterey and has dedicated a great deal of her work with hospice patients and families.  She has a special interest in grief counseling, working closely with Community Hospital’s hospice program Hospice of the Central Coast and Griefbusters programs. 

MaryNina Hill, FDR, Paul Mortuary, Pacific Grove
MaryNina Hill has been with Paul Mortuary for 35 years and has extensive experience working with grieving families in the short-term and over a longer-term.   As a funeral director, she will bring her perspective on the special sensitivities and considerations that accompany a family’s journey in grief and her experiences working with them in the aftermath of their loss. 

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of the program, partipants will be able to:

• Discuss the role, value, and limitations of stages theories in the understanding of the dying process;
• Describe two task models of the dying process;
• Define anticipatory grief and trace the evolution of the concept;
• Describe the process of grief, noting grief manifestations and factors that influence the grieving process;
• Discuss six challenges to current understandings of grief;
• Name three factors that have increased cultural diversity in the U.S. and discuss the effects of cultural diversity on grief theory and practice;
• Describe contemporary research on grief interventions.

Cost to attend:  $25 with advance registration, $30 at the door. 
Optional Companion Book – $20 if ordered by Nov. 9, $25 after that date.
Optional Continuing Education Credits – $35 registration at the event, $25 registration AFTER THE EVENT online.  Go to  www.hospicefoundation.org .

Call for advance registration (831) 333-9023 or go to our online form.

Continuing Education Credits
Hospice Foundation of America has received approval from various professional boards to award three (3) continuing education credits for participation in this program.  See Approved Boards.  You can register for your CEUs at the event on Nov. 21 for $35 (checks payable to Hospice Foundation of America) or you can go online AFTER the event and register for $25 to HFA’s website www.hospicefoundation.org.   Those interested in CEUs must sign-in at the event and then complete HFA’s evaluation form, either there or online, whichever registration method you choose.

 For more information and to register for Beyond Kubler-Ross:, call (831) 333-9023.

Official Entry Form:  Entry_Form11 

Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, 2011.  Drop off or send your artwork created on our official entry form to:  Hospice Foundation, 80 Garden Court, Suite 201, Monterey, CA  93940.  Faxed or emailed entries cannot be accepted.

Thirteen (13) winners will be chosen, a Best of Show and a First, Second and Third from each region where there is a Tree of Life:  the Hollister/San Benito County, King City/South Monterey County, Salinas/Salinas Valley, Monterey Peninsula.

Best of Show:  $40 Target Gift Card, a Trees of Life crystal ornament inscribed with winner’s name, a light naming opportunity, and a certificate
First Place: $25 Target Gift Card, a Trees of Life crystal ornament inscribed with winner’s name, a light naming opportunity, and a certificate
Second Place:  $10 Target Gift Card, a Trees of Life crystal ornament inscribed with winner’s name, a light naming opportunity, and a certificate
Third Place: a Trees of Life crystal ornament inscribed with winner’s name, a light naming opportunity, and a certificate

Everyone will receive something—either by placing, or receiving an Honorable Mention with their name on it.   ALL of the drawings will be displayed at Hospice Foundation’s Trees of Life lightings and musical celebrations this December in Hollister, King City, Montereyand Salinas. 

 This contest is limited at this time to fifth grade students attending school in Monterey County or San Benito County, California.

Winners will be announced and their drawings posted here on our website at noon on Tuesday, Dec. 1.  A letter will also be sent to the address provided on the form.

If you have any questions, call Jennifer Pettley at 333-9025 or email jpettley@hospicegiving.org.

Good luck!

• Distribute to the major print media withinMontereyCountyand/or San BenitoCounty an announcement of and use of this grant from Hospice Foundation. 
• Place an announcement in your organization’s electronic media communications, including but not limited to email newsletter and social media outlets.
• Whenever the funded program or service is discussed in your electronic or printed media formats, including collateral materials, please mention on first reference that the program is funded in whole or in part by Hospice Foundation.  The Hospice Foundation logo must also appear in proximity to this text.
• If only a listing is used, with no descriptive text about the funded program or services in these electronic formats, fundraising or other collateral materials, the Hospice Foundation logo must appear along with the supporting phrase, “This program is funded (in full or in part) by Hospice Foundation.”  The logo must not appear any smaller than 1/2” wide and 11/16” in height (please refer to the attached Graphic Standards).   See the clickable high-resolution logos below, a sample press release, and graphic standards.  Right click on the logo and copy for your files.
• Provide samples of all uses in your interim and final reports.

If you don’t find what you need here, please give Alice Kinsler or Jennifer Pettley a call at (831) 333-9023.

 Downloadable high resolution logos:

Use of Logo:
GraphicStandards

Sample Press Release Format
Microsoft Word Doc

Photos – Quail Lodge Golf Club, Carmel, California

A fun day was had by all, with nearly $90,000 raised for local hospice care programs.  Thank you for coming.  And please be sure to connect with us for future updates.

Donate for Your Tribute Light
Names will be added to the tribute Book of Names. 
 

Help light the night sky during the 2011 holiday season with your tribute lights on the Trees of Life as a thoughtful and meaningful way to honor or remember loved ones, friends, associates or others.

Four Trees of Life are each made of hundreds of white tribute lights.  You can now see them prominently on the rooftops at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, the Monterey Marriott and Rabobank in King City.  In Hollister, the tree is at ground-level in Veterans’ Memorial Plaza.

See the Trees of Life Shining in the Night Sky:

Veterans’ Memorial Plaza, Hollister
Rabobank, King City
National Steinbeck Center, Salinas
Monterey Marriott Hotel, Monterey

An Expression of Your Remembrance, Love and Appreciation

Your Trees of Life tribute lights are an expression of your remembrance, love and appreciation for family and friends. You also help your community at the same time.

Lights can be designated to honor or remember anyone, you don’t need to have had any connection to a hospice experience. Donations are the source of Hospice Foundation’s support to local hospice and other end-of-life care non-profits. Your dollar stretches across many needs, and indeed has great impact. It supports care that help people live out the final weeks or months of their lives with dignity, peace and comfort at home, while emotional and care support is provided to their families.  Your dollars stretch to help Hospice Foundation fund many non-profit charities, all at the same time.

The suggested minimum donation for each light tribute is $25, with one card sent.

For a $200 donation, you will also receive a beautiful crystal ornament, etched with a nautilus shell image and year 2011.

For a $225 donation, we will engrave the ornament with a name or wording of your choice, up to 18 letters.

A card is sent to the person named in the tribute or, if it is in memory of someone, to his or her family, with an invitation to attend the lighting celebrations.  The names of the donor and the person for whom a light has been named are also recorded in our Book of Tribute Names that is on display at the tree lightings.  The book remains in the lobbies of each of the tree locations throughout the holidays.  The book pages can also be viewed online as they become available.

Tribute light donations fund end-of-life care programs and services in Monterey and San Benito counties.  Twelve non-profits received funding for 2011-12 from Hospice Foundation, totaling $1.4 million.  These funds were raised in part from Trees of Life tribute donations given in 2010.  This brings to $19 million the total amount Hospice Foundation has awarded since its founding in 1997, and that achievement is all due to the generosity of our donors.  You help us fund the end-of-life care charities.

Many Thanks to Our 2011 Sponsors:
Hospice Foundation is profoundly grateful for the assistance of our sponsors for the 2011 Trees of Life celebrations, who help make these events possible.  Please join us in extending our thanks and appreciation to:

• Monterey Conference Center and Monterey Marriott Hotel
• Rabobank
• National Steinbeck Center
• 

2011 Media Partners:

• Monterey County Herald
• KWAV 97 FM and KIDD Z97.9 AM and ESPN 630AM
• South County Newspaper Group
• Comcast Spotlight
• KRKC King City

To sponsor these heart-warming holiday celebrations next year, in 2012, please E-mail Diane Kelley or call (831) 333-9023 for details about how your gift and participation is publicly recognized.

Hospice Foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable organization.Tax I.D. is 94-2404634

Free Seminars: 
All You Want to Know About Being
or Naming an Executor or Trustee
Legal, Financial and Fiduciary Expert Panel

Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m.
National Steinbeck Center, Salinas

Thursday, May 24, 2012, 5:15 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Embassy Suites Hotel, Seaside

REGISTER BY PHONE (831) 333-9023

2011-12 Awards of Excellence:
$1.4 Million Awarded for Grants