Events

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Webinars

The Voice Your Choice program is offering free webinars to the community to learn more about planning in advance for health care emergencies. This is especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the webinars participants will learn:

• What advance care planning is and why it is important
• What a health care agent is and how to choose one
• How to create an online plan that is easily accessible in an emergency
• How to upload existing advance care plans

Voice Your Choice offers three free webinars:

• "An Introduction to Advance Care Planning" 
• "How to Upload an Existing Advance Care Plan to an Online Platform"
• "Answers to Your Questions about Completing Your Online Advance Care Plan"

"An Introduction to Advance Care Planning" will be held on:

• August 11 at 11:30 a.m. (REGISTER HERE)
• August 12 at 12:30 p.m. (REGISTER HERE)
• August 20 at 1 p.m. (REGISTER HERE)
• August 27 at 2 p.m. (REGISTER HERE)

"How to Upload an Existing Advance Care Plan to an Online Platform” will be held on:

• August 3 at 12:30 p.m. (REGISTER HERE)​​
• August 18 at 10 a.m. (REGISTER HERE)

"Answers to Your Questions about Completing Your Online Advance Care Plan" will be held on:

• August 25 at 11 a.m. (REGISTER HERE)
• September 29 at 11 a.m. (REGISTER HERE)

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Health Care Provider Trainings

The Voice Your Choice program is offering webinars at no cost to health care providers to learn more about free advance care planning resources for their practices and patients. During these webinars, providers will learn about and have access to:

• Tools and materials to facilitate advance care planning discussions
• A portal for patients to complete or upload an existing advance care plan, making it easier to find in an emergency
• Detailed webinars and online resources to educate patients about advance care planning and the importance of choosing a health care agent
• A step-by-step process to support the creation of a digital advance care plan, which is integrated with CRISP so it is easier to find during a crisis 
• Support for providers to have advance care planning discussions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic​

Webinars for health care providers will be held on:

• August 17 at 5:30 p.m. (REGISTER HERE)
• August 26 at 1 p.m. (REGISTER HERE)

Voice Your Choice webinars can also be embedded into practice meetings or events. Please contact Sara Hufstader at shufstader@jssa.org for more information about personalized presentations.

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Community Facilitators Trainings - ON HOLD DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC

A key component of promoting advance care planning is providing information and training to residents of our community. Community Facilitators are essential to educating and engaging individuals in advance care planning by helping people learn about the importance of:

• Talking with those who matter most about health care wishes;
• Selecting a health care decision maker to make sure health care wishes are honored when a person can’t speak for themselves; and
• Writing down health care wishes and making sure that they’re easily accessible to health care providers in an emergency.

Training, materials, support, and a small stipend are provided to all Community Facilitators by the Voice Your Choice program.

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