Newsletters
ABCD
Exchange
A newsletter
from Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD).
ABCD aims to enhance the experience of the last phase
of life for all Americans, advocate for the interests
of patients and their families, improve communication
between providers and patients, involve society in end-of-life
care and demand continuity in services for the seriously
ill.
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ABCD
2175 K Street NW, Suite
820
Washington DC 20037-1803
(202) 530-9864
E-mail: caring@erols.com
Web: http://www.abcd-caring.com
The ACPA
Chronicle
A patient
oriented quarterly newsletter of the American Chronic
Pain Association. It includes letters, essays,
articles, and book reviews written by people with chronic
pain or their families. Periodically, healthcare
professionals have inclusions.
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ACPA
P.O. Box 850
Rocklin, CA 95677
http://www.theacpa.org/
Alive
Alone
Seasonal
newsletter for parents who have lost their only child(ren).
Newsletter contains letters, poetry, pictures and tributes.
There is no local chapter, but can send for information
on the newsletter.
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Alive Alone, Inc.
11115 Dull Robinson Road
Van Wert, Ohio 45891
E-mail:alivealon@bright.net
http://www.alivealone.org
Cancer
Care News
Provides
information for people with cancer, their families and
loved ones.
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Cancer Care, Inc. National Office
1180 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
(800) 813-HOPE (4673)
http://www.cancercare.org/
Compassion
Books
Compassion
Books offers a free e-newsletter covering educational
events happening throughout the world related to loss
and grief and death and dying. There are reports and
reviews of recently published books and videos. They
will also write about new websites related to loss and
grief. Additionally, they publish ideas for remembrance
rituals and story activities that others have shared.
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http://www.compassionbooks.com
GriefNet
Newsletter
Read
the latest newsletter from GriefNet by clicking on the
Current Issue link under the Newsletter category
in the left hand blue navigation bar. Included
are articles, articles on children's issues, Q & A, book reviews.
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http://griefnet.org/
LAST
ACTS: Care and Caring at the End of Life
Published
quarterly by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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LAST ACTS
c/o Barksdale, Ballard & Comapny
1951 Kidwell Drive, Suite 205
Vienna, VA 22182
(703) 827-8771
http://www.lastacts.org/
NABCO
News
National
Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO).
A leading, nonprofit central information resource on
breast cancer and a network of over 375 breast cancer
organizations. NABCO provides information to medical
professionals and their organizations, patients and
their families, and the media.
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NABCO
9 East 37th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(212) 889-0606
E-mail: NABCOinfo@aol.com
http://www.nabco.org/
RENEW
Center for Personal Recovery
Offers
comprehensive training publications for developing a
school and district-wide crisis plan, training teams
in crisis management, empowering building-level crisis
teams to provide staff development for their colleagues,
parents, and students to prevent, intervene, respond
to crisis, as well as to support recovery by students
and staff from grief and trauma. Renew newsletters on
disk for adults or adolescents are easy to read and
provide students, parents, and staff with bsic information
on issues related to crisis management.
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RENEW
Center for Personal Recovery
P.O. Box 125
Berea, KY 40403
((859) 986-7878
E-mail: renew@mix.net
http://www.renew.net
The National
Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved
The National
Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved is a source of education,
resources and support to dioceses, parishes and care
provides in their ministry to the bereaved. Resources
include a quarterly newsletter, an annual conference,
brochures and other support materials. For more information,
contact:
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NCMB
28700 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44092
(440) 943-3480
NYSCAPI
News
New York
State Cancer and AIDS Pain Initiative (NYSCAPI). Part
of NYSCAPI's goal is to educate health care professionals,
patients, and families affected by cancer and AIDS about
the management of pain; to develop research that permits
better management of pain; and to monitor legislation
that might influence clinical management of pain.
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NYSCAPI
1180 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
(212) 221-330
E-mail: info@cancercare.org
http://www.cancercare.org/
PDIA
Reader
An interesting
and easily accessible source of recent articles on end-of-life
issues. Published by the Project on Death in America
(PDIA). Also offers proceedings from the 1st national
conference on death and dying in prisons and jails:
caring for prisoners, families, and caregivers.
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Open Society Institute, PDIA
400 W. 59th Street, New York, NY 10019
(212) 548-0600
http://www.soros.org/death/newsletters.htm
The Thanatology
Newsletter
The Thanatology
Newsletter invites hospice personnel, clergy, and individuals
working within the funeral industry to share their programs,
ideas for improving services to the dying and/or bereft,
wish lists, observations and research findings, gripes
and complaints or any other issues needing to be openly
discussed. All readers are encouraged to submit
reviews of current death related books, critiques of
death related books, critiques of death related articles,
description of methods used in teaching death education,
or descriptions of programs in death education and/or
death related counseling. Manuscripts are also
accepted for publication. David
K. Meagher, Ed.D., is the Editor. Subscription
cost is $20.00.
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The Thanatology Newsletter
Dept. of Health & Nutrition Sciences
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, New York 11210-2889
(718) 951-5553
E-mail:thanatde@aol.com