New Uses for Finding Our
Way Articles – New Initiatives
on the Horizon
Thank You
From the Entire Finding
Our Way Team!
Can You
Use the Finding Our Way
Articles in Your
Organization or Coalition’s
Newsletter?
12/20
Last Acts Partner Conference
Call to Focus on Workplace
Issues
On Our
Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
Receives Award for Website
On Our
Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
Receives Award from Health
and Media Organization
Help Us
Learn More About Your
Activities
What Do
Your Neighbors Think?
A Series
Reprint of Finding Our
Way Will Be Available in
January
Finding Our Way Plans
Web-Based Self Study Course
for Spring, 2002
New
Initiative from Last Acts
and The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation for Community
End-of-Life Coalitions
And
Thou Shalt Honor… – New
PBS Series Focusing on
Caregiving on the Horizon!
Thank You From the Entire
Finding Our Way Team!
This will be the last of the
e-newsletters surrounding
the Finding Our Way
series. We have thoroughly
enjoyed working with
community coalitions around
the country! But do not
despair; there are still
opportunities for you to use
Finding Our Way in
your community. You can read
about some of those options
below. For more ideas, visit
www.findingourway.net or
contact
findingourway123@aol.com.
Additionally, there are a
number of campaigns and
initiatives just getting
underway. You can read about
two of these in this
newsletter. Again, thank you
for all of your hard work,
and keep it up!
Can You Use the Finding
Our Way Articles in Your
Organization or Coalition’s
Newsletter?
One of the ways you can use
the Finding Our Way articles
is to include one of the
articles in your
organization’s newsletter.
Each of the fifteen articles
is available for this
purpose. You could reprint
an article and accompany it
with a piece focusing on
your local response to that
issue. Your coalition or
organization can download
copies of the articles in a
PDF version by visiting
http://www.findingourway.net/downloads.htm.
If you would rather receive
them in Word format, email
this request to
roffsl@aol.com.
Additionally, the articles
are available in both
Spanish and Chinese
translations. You can
download these translations
in Word format by visiting
http://www.findingourway.net/downloads.htm.
12/20 Last Acts Partner
Conference Call to Focus on
Workplace Issues
On December 20, Last Acts
will host a Partner-only
conference call designed to
help participants learn more
about model programs,
policies and benefits for
employees dealing with
end-of-life caregiving
issues. Guest speakers are
Myrl Weinberg, CAE,
President of the National
Health Council and
Co-convener of the Last Acts
Workplace Committee and
Kathi Beauchesne, PhD,
Director, Faculty and Staff
Assistance Program, Student
Assistance and WORKlife
Programs at Johns Hopkins
University and Hospital.
The call will take place
from 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET and
you must register by
Tuesday, Dec. 18. Upon
registration, participants
will receive a complete
instruction packet including
a call-in number and an
agenda. Questions about the
call or registration can be
directed by e-mail to
lastacts@bballard.com or by
phone to 703-827-8817, x318.
Last Acts Partners may click
here to learn more about the
call:
(Make sure this link is not
broken in your browser)
Community coalitions are
welcome to join the Last
Acts community by becoming
partners. To apply for Last
Acts Partnership, visit:
www.lastacts.org/partnerapplication
On Our Own Terms: Moyers
on Dying Receives Award for
Website
The tools section of the On
Our Own Terms: Moyers on
Dying website (www.pbs.org)
has received an award from
the Online News Association
for first prize in the
category of “Service
Journalism: Affiliated.”
This category “honors
coverage of a single topic
that helps users improve the
quality of their lives.” The
judges were particularly
impressed with how the site
helped to spur a
community-based movement,
acting as a resource to
community coalitions around
the country. One judge was
quoted as saying “They
pulled it off like nobody
else could.” Congratulations
to Public Affairs Television
and WNET/Thirteen in New
York for this wonderful
accomplishment.
On Our Own Terms: Moyers
on Dying Receives Award from
Health and Media
Organization On Our Own Terms: Moyers
on Dying is also the
recipient of a top prize
given by the 2001
International Health and
Medical Media Awards. The
award, sponsored by Time Inc
Health, was in the category
of Issues and Ethics. The
competition, known as the
Freddie Awards, is the
world’s pre-eminent health
and medical media
competition, attracting the
best in documentaries,
series, shorts, videos,
websites, and CD-ROMs from
all over the world. Again,
congratulations to the
entire On Our Own Terms
Team!
Help Us Learn More About
Your Activities We know that you have
been working hard to make
Finding Our Way a
success for patients,
caregivers, families, and
communities – and even for
the newspapers that will
carry the series. In light
of this, members of the
Finding Our Way team
will be contacting many of
you in January to learn more
about your activities and
reactions to the series.
Please help us “show off”
your great work to our
funders by completing the
evaluation forms found on
our website,
www.findingourway.net/downloads.htm.
Your help in this process is
invaluable to us. Thank you
so much for all of your hard
work!
What Do Your Neighbors
Think? There will be a reader
survey on the Finding Our
Way website in early
January as part of the
overall evaluation of the
series and outreach
campaign. Please encourage
people in your community to
go to
www.findingourway.net
and provide feedback to us
on what they thought of the
series. We haven’t figured
out exactly how we’re going
to do it, yet, but we’ll try
to post this feedback in a
prominent place on the site.
Take a look at it to see how
your neighbors were affected
by the series!
A Series Reprint of
Finding Our Way Will Be
Available in January All 15 Finding Our
Way articles have been
organized into a series
reprint. Coalitions can
expect to receive 100 copies
of the reprint around the
middle of January.
Additional copies can be
ordered, for a minimal
charge to cover to cost of
production and shipping, on
the Finding Our Way website
(www.findingourway.net).
For a minimal investment,
this public education and
outreach tool can be made
available in doctors’
offices, hospitals,
community forums, libraries,
etc. This reprint is an
opportunity to significantly
expand the distribution of
the series by putting it in
the hands of thousands and
acts to provide an
additional resource for
hands-on clinicians.
Finding Our Way
Plans Web-Based Self Study
Course for Spring, 2002
The Finding Our Way
initiative is planning a
web-based self study course
entitled "The American
Course on Living with
Dying", scheduled to begin
in the spring 2002. This
self-paced non-instructor
mediated web-based course is
a collaborative effort with
Santa Clara University (SCU),
using state of the art web
course Prometheus software.
The course will devote a
week to each topic covered
in the Finding Our Way
newspaper series. A link to
the course will exist within
the already operational
Finding Our Way website (www.findingourway.net).
The course can be strongly
promoted as a resource for
all Americans, used in adult
education centers like the
YMCA and YWCA, and also
serve as a training
experience for end-of-life
professionals and volunteers
in hospice, oncology,
long-term care, and nurse's
aides.
New Initiative from
Last Acts and The Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation for
Community End-of-Life
Coalitions
Good news for coalitions
around the country!
Last Acts has just
received a new grant from
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation to fund an
exciting community-based
program – Rallying Points.
Once again, we are building
on the extraordinary
response to On Our Own
Terms: Moyers on Dying
and the Foundation-sponsored
meeting in January 2001,
called Rallying Points:
Improving Community
End-of-Life Care Through
Coalitions, which
energized all of us about
the work that is being done
at the local level and how
we can further expand our
existing networks and foster
community engagement.
Under this new and
innovative program, each
coalition will have the
opportunity to obtain vital
resources and technical
support. The future program
will include Resource
Centers for training and
troubleshooting, and a
certificate program that
will enable coalitions to
obtain direct, personalized
technical assistance in
coalition building and
launching community
programs. More details about
these programs will be sent
to you as soon as they are
available.
The staff at the Rallying
Points National Coordinating
Center is delighted about
this great opportunity to
work with you at the local
level. They have an 800# to
help answer your questions
(800-341-0050). You may also
email them at
Rallyingpoints@partnershipforcaring.org.
Coming soon will be a new
Web site that will provide
networking opportunities and
current information. In the
coming months, you will hear
more from them, and we urge
you and your coalitions to
stay involved.
And Thou Shalt Honor… –
New PBS Series Focusing on
Caregiving on the Horizon!
Within the next two weeks,
steeringcommittees@bballard.com
will send you an invitation
to join the outreach for
And Thou Shalt Honor….
We hope that you will use
this series on caregiving as
an opportunity to
reinvigorate your efforts
within your community and to
expand the local partner
base of your coalition. For
those of you who used to
work with Public Television
stations that were unable to
stay involved in your
coalition, you will find
that And Thou Shalt
Honor… provides another
opportunity for you to
reconnect with them. In the
meantime, if you have any
questions about the series,
please contact us at
pbscaregivers@bballard.com.
Happy Holidays and Best
Wishes for the New Year!
The Finding Our Way Team.
