30-Hour Chinese Hospice and Palliative Care Volunteer Training

美華慈心關懷聯盟第六屆安寧緩和療護華語志工培訓

CAIPA 136-33 37th Avenue, Suite 2D, Flushing, NY 11354
July 27, 28, 29, 30, 2019 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

The Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) is the only nonprofit coalition in the nation devoted to addressing end-of-life care issues in the Chinese community. Provides year-round community education and outreach for Chinese Americans and the healthcare professionals who serve them, including advance care planning and Heart to Heart® Cafés to facilitate conversations about end-of-life issues. This will be the CACCC’s 6th 30-Hour training since 2011.

Dr. George Liu, founder, chief executive officer and president of CAIPA has over 25 years of experience of organizing community physicians under the Coalition of Asian-American IPA (CAIPA), a physician group has provided a multi-specialty network to Asian-American community meeting the challenge of an underserved community. CAIPA’s goal is to provide high quality, cost-effective and sustainable healthcare network for the population at large.

In 2018, CACCC held a Heart to Heart Café Facilitator Training for 20 volunteers in New York. After more than six months of conducting Cafés in cooperation with CACCC partner organizations, it became clear that New York needed more trained hospice and palliative care volunteers. The training, supported by hospitals and hospices in NY, will prepare Chinese hospice & palliative care volunteers to help these agencies serve more Chinese patients and their families. Volunteers who have completed the training will become volunteers at these agencies. Volunteers from medical and charitable organizations and individuals who want to become CACCC volunteers are encouraged to participate in this training. The training curriculum includes: hospice and palliative care; spiritual care; pain and symptom management; grief and bereavement; communication skills; the volunteer role, volunteer self-care and more. CACCC will also provide another Heart to Heart Café Facilitator Training to encourage Chinese Americans to start the conversation about end of life.