Resources
Browse the suggested links below to find more information about crisis help, grief support, advance care planning, storytelling, and advocacy organizations.
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Suicide Prevention Lifeline
If you feel you are in a crisis, whether or not you are thinking about killing yourself, please call the Lifeline. People have called for help with substance abuse, economic worries, relationship and family problems, sexual orientation, illness, getting over abuse, depression, mental and physical illness, and even loneliness. When you dial 1-800-273-TALK (8255), you are calling the crisis center in the Lifeline network closest to your location. After you call, you will hear a message saying you have reached the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. You will hear hold music while your call is being routed. You will be helped by a skilled, trained crisis worker who will listen to your problems and will tell you about mental health services in your area. Your call is confidential and free.
Grief & Loss Resources
Good Grief Center for Bereavement Support
The premise of the Good Grief Center is to be a comprehensive bereavement resource and referral center that builds a more compassionate community through grief awareness, education, support and hope.
Modern Loss
Modern Loss is a place to share the unspeakably taboo, unbelievably hilarious, and unexpectedly beautiful terrain of navigating your life after a death. Beginners welcome.
What’s Your Grief?
The goal of What’s Your Grief is to create a space where grievers can find help, solace, and understanding; free from worrying about cost or contending with the noise of the unrelenting outside world.
Open to Hope
OpentoHope.com is an online website where people can share inspirational stories of loss and love. Visitors are encouraged to read, listen and share their stories of hope and compassion.
Grief Healing Blog
This blog is designed and intended to share any useful information about care giving, loss, grief and transition, whether it is found on the Internet or written by the author herself.
Find a Social Worker
HelpStartsHere features a few online directories to help jumpstart your search for the right therapist. Please consult your insurance benefit before making any appointments to make sure the therapist is in your network.giving, loss, grief and transition, whether it is found on the Internet or written by the author herself.
Resources for Making & Documenting Medical Decisions
The Conversation Project
The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. We believe that the place for this to begin is at the kitchen table—not in the intensive care unit—with the people we love, before it’s too late. Together we can make these difficult conversations easier.
PREPARE
The PREPARE website is designed to help people and their loved ones prepare for medical decision making.
ACP Decisions
The mission of ACP Decisions is to empower patients, along with their families, to participate in their own hare.
Put It In Writing (an American Hospital Association initiative)
A simple and accessible brochure created by the American Hospital Association, offering information about advance directives and links to worksheets, tool kits, and sites with legal information.
Closure: Changing expectations for end-of-life
Closure is an initiative to change expectations for end-of-life. Our goal is to empower consumers and healthcare professionals with easy-to-access, simple-to-understand information and resources to make educated decisions about end-of-life care.
Storytelling Resources
StoryCorps
StoryCorps’ mission is to provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives.
health Story Collaborative
Health Story Collaborative collects, shares, and honors stories of illness and healing. Their goal is to create a forum for story sharing to make the process of navigating illness less isolating, and to empower individuals and families facing hhallenges.
The Wake Up to Dying Project
Telling stories is a powerful and inviting way to share experiences. The Wake up to Dying Project offers people the chance to listen to personal stories about death and dying. We are invited to learn from each other.
Advocacy & Supportive Organizations
Courageous Parents Network
THE MISSION of Courageous Parents Network is to empower parents and families of children living with serious illness.
National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.
Critical Care Innovations Group at UCSF
The UCSF Critical Care Innovations Group is a transdisciplinary team of clinicians, engineers, administrators, and patient/family advisors at UCSF who seek to eliminate preventable harms in the ICU, optimize the patient and family experience, improve the culture of safety through a combination of technology and behavioral change initiatives, and create value and efficiency through workflow optimization.