The Center for Applied Ethics: Chronic Care Community Corps

Organizational Information
Chronic Care Community Corps (4C) believes that communities hold an important solution to the challenges faced by families caring for elder loved ones with chronic or life-threatening illness. 4C's mission is to build the capacity of our communities to provide meaningful support to family caregivers. By capturing the wisdom of past, present, and future caregivers in community-based seminars along with complementary web-based learning, 4C equips seminar participants with tools, strategies, and information to proactively support families caring for a loved one. 4C is a project of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), a nonprofit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity.

Description of Project
4C educates adults through interactive seminars within existing communities (workplaces, places of worship and neighborhood organizations) where family caregivers often struggle in isolation and without meaningful support as they care for elders with chronic and end-of-life illnesses. Participants discover new ways to support friends and family members as they care for aging loved ones with chronic or life-threatening illness. Seminars use case studies, interactive role-plays, and practice identifying resources for family caregivers. Seminar participants are trained to listen carefully to the reality of family caregivers in their communities – and to practice their inquiry skills rather than simply offer “advice.”

The seminar series explores the following topics: role of family and informal caregivers, the role of healthcare professionals, the role of friends and neighbors, context of health care today, family meetings and goals of care, continuity of care during the arc of an illness, and difficult conversations during illness. Once trained, 4C community members support friends or colleagues they know who are caregivers and offer more meaningful support, as defined by the caregiver, through listening, inquiry, perspective taking, goal setting and resource identification.

For more information or to host a seminar at your work, your place of worship, or neighborhood group, please contact: Ned Rimer, Center for Applied Ethics, EDC.


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Home > Chronic Care Community Corps Chronic Care Community Corps Generations Caring for Generations Organizational Information Chronic Care Community Corps (4C) believes that communities hold an important solution to the challenges faced by families caring for elder loved ones with chronic or life-threatening illness. 4C's mission is to build the capacity of our communities to provide meaningful support to family caregivers. By capturing the wisdom of past, present, and future caregivers in community-based seminars along with complementary web-based learning, 4C equips seminar participants with tools, strategies, and information to proactively support families caring for a loved one. 4C is a project of Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), a nonprofit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity. Description of Project 4C educates adults through interactive seminars within existing communities (workplaces, places of worship and neighborhood organizations) where family caregivers often struggle in isolation and without meaningful support as they care for elders with chronic and end-of-life illnesses. Participants discover new ways to support friends and family members as they care for aging loved ones with chronic or life-threatening illness. Seminars use case studies, interactive role-plays, and practice identifying resources for family caregivers. Seminar participants are trained to listen carefully to the reality of family caregivers in their communities – and to practice their inquiry skills rather than simply offer “advice.” The seminar series explores the following topics: role of family and informal caregivers, the role of healthcare professionals, the role of friends and neighbors, context of health care today, family meetings and goals of care, continuity of care during the arc of an illness, and difficult conversations during illness. Once trained, 4C community members support friends or colleagues they know who are caregivers and offer more meaningful support, as defined by the caregiver, through listening, inquiry, perspective taking, goal setting and resource identification. For more information or to host a seminar at your work, your place of worship, or neighborhood group, please contact: Ned Rimer, Center for Applied Ethics, EDC. To support this project, please click the link on the Donate Now button below.	“I left the Chronic Care Community Corps seminar series having connected with a group of supportive partners in this journey, with a renewed compassion for those caring for their loved ones, and with the resources to make an impact in my community.” Seminar participant, 2010

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