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Community And Global Initiative: Faith-Based Palliative Care Initiative, V. Dare Domico, Elaine C. Harris, Linda A. Streit

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Communities of faith are often significantly affected by illness, care giving issues, end of life needs, and grief of their members. Through combined efforts from interdisciplinary health care members and key community constituents, training programs were initiated to assist church leaders in providing non-medical comfort care to people with life-limiting illness or who are near the end of life. The purpose of the two-phase initiative was to test the feasibility of an interdisciplinary university-community service learning project. The project was designed to enhance undergraduate and graduate education with service learning opportunities unavailable in the classroom. The project incorporated interdisciplinary collaboration …