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Doula Pride

Improving Socially Supported Serious Illness Care for the LGBTQ+ Older People Community: A Study Leveraging Social Capital

Thank you all for your participation in our initial training. We will continue our connections and mentorship. Meetings now are open, drop-in sessions on Monday from 5-7pm in Person at Swanson's Stash Fabric House 320 Avenue A Turners Falls, and through Zoom at that time beginning in July and on Zoom at this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86547600240?pwd=VnquXQXYhxJxCWawQ52Z924D6mb9Sr.1

Meeting ID: 865 4760 0240
Passcode: 133279

We honor Flexibility, Reviewing, and Options so if that time does not work for you and you would like to connect please reach out. Look for your weekly email update on Mondays.

The goal of this website is to improve access to serious illness palliative care and provide the educational resources for our newly funded "Doula Pride" Project to share with you.

The purpose of "Doula Pride" is to advance compassionate local community-based serious illness end-of-life care through an innovative supportive LGBTQ+ network approach.

Our project will directly address a key aspect of serious illness care, holistic social support, and aims to promote social support by offering a culturally concordant LGBTQ+ form of serious illness doula informed caregiving.

This project is offered through the generous funding of the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation: Hillman Emergent Innovation: Serious Illness and End of Life Fund (#23111499)

We are part of a growing team of experienced caregivers, educators, practitioners, students and researchers committed to ethical equitable caring practices.

Questions for Dina - dinastander15@gmail.com (413-237-1300)

Questions for Raeann - rgleblan@umass.edu (413-545-6630)