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Willo Carey
Executive Director, Wider Horizons
WHYY
150 North Sixth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
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Caring Community To enhance end-of-life and caregiver outreach through educational programming and supportive services — especially through multimedia including radio, television and the Web. Caring Community is a volunteer coalition convened by WHYY, comprised of more than 100 partners representing nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, government agencies, faith-based organizations and health care systems in the region. The collaborative effort evolved from WHYY's work with community outreach around the national broadcast of Bill Moyers' series On Our Own Terms, which started a national conversation about end-of-life issues. Caring Community provides a much-needed forum for professionals and the public to explore issues related to end-of-life care, with special attention to the needs of caregivers. Outreach efforts include workshops, symposia, information and referral services, web-based resources, and audio and video programming. The unique partnering of a public broadcasting station with the coalition provides access to innovative technology to reach greater numbers of people in creative ways. Successes Wider Horizons and Caring Community were awarded the 2005 Community Partnership Award by the National Center for Outreach. The award honors a PBS station and a local community organization for their sustainable and outstanding partnership, whose collaborative contributions and efforts exceed goals and expectations that impact the community. WHYY and Caring Community received two major grants from Sound Partners for Community Health, a national project of the Benton Foundation, funded by The RobertWood Johnson Foundation to produce Circle of Love and Circle of Care. The coalition's community-based outreach includes a collaboration in 2001 with The Philadelphia Inquirer, which carried the 15-part Knight-Ridder series Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America with sidebars of related resources complied by Caring Community and a four-part Community Voices series, Death and Dying. In 2002, Wider Horizons was the media partner for the National Family Caregivers Association and webcast a series of town meetings across the country, with guidance in coalition-building for each region provided by Caring Community. WHYY and Caring Community were selected together as one of four projects nationwide by Last Acts, a national coalition to improve care and caring near the end of life, for its Model Programs Project. Caring Community Partners Abington Memorial Health Center & Muller Center for Senior Health Madlyn & Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life Albert Einstein Healthcare Network ALS Association - Greater Philadelphia Chapter Alzheimer's Association of the Delaware Valley American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Parish Nurse Program and Catholic Social Services American Red Cross - Southeastern PA Chapter Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Ann's Choice Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Parish Nurse Program and Catholic Social Services Asian Public Radio Association of Comfort Ministries Bucks County Area Agency on Aging CARIE (Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Philadelphia Regional Office Chandler Hall Health Services Inc. Children of Aging Parents (CAPS) Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia College of Physicians of Philadelphia Community Care of the Northeast Compassionate Care Hospice Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living Delaware County Office of Services to the Aging Delaware End-of-Life Coalition Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health Professions Einstein Center for Urban Health Policy and Research ElderCare Ethics Association Eleventh Street Family Health Services of Drexel University EPILOGUE: Bereavement Support Groups and Conversations for the End of Life The Family & Workplace Connection The Family Support Center of New Jersey Greater Philadelphia Faith in Action Healing Arts Coalition Healthy Living Associates Home Care Associates Horizons Unlimited The Hospice of Moorestown VNA Jewish Employment and Vocational Service Jewish Family and Children's Service Main Street Technology, Inc. Mainline Healthcare Advisors Mayor's Commission on Services to the Aging, City of Philadelphia Mental Health Association of Southeastern PA Montgomery County Office of Aging and Adult Services National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse National Nursing Center Consortium Neighborhood Hospice/NVNA New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Pennsylvania Department of Aging Peter's Place Philadelphia International Children's Festival Philadelphia Corporation for Aging Precious Gems Counseling & Support Services, Inc. St. Christopher's Hospital for Children St. Mary Medical Center Sisters of IHM, Villa Maria House of Studies South Jersey Partnership on Living with Dying Temple University Center for Intergenerational Learning Temple University Institute on Aging Thomas Jefferson University Hospice and Palliative Care United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Institute on Aging and Division of Geriatric Medicine University of Pennsylvania Penn Home Care & Hospice Services University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Public Health Service, Region III VNA Community Services, Inc. The Wellness Community of Philadelphia West Chester University Department of Nursing |
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