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Join us for our 40th bash!

May 10, 2016 by TRU Community Care

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Mark your calendars! In celebration of our 40th, TRU Community Care will be hosting an anniversary party on Sunday, June 26 from 2 to 5 p.m. and all of TRU’s supporters are invited to attend. The celebration will also include the grand opening for our new PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care of the Elderly) and Grief Services building. PACE is a comprehensive program that helps nursing-home eligible seniors live as independently as possible.

The event will be held at 2593 Park Lane in Lafayette, around the corner from our existing administrative offices on Trailridge Drive. We hope to see you there!

Filed Under: 40th Anniversary, Community, Events, News Tagged With: Grief, Boulder, hospice, PACE, anniversary, grand opening

Crochet Grief Group is April 30

April 26, 2016 by TRU Community Care

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We are partnering with Children’s Hospital and two of our Healing Circle’s bereaved PEDS parents to offer this unique one-day grief group. Together we will explore the healing powers of knitting and crocheting. This group is a knitting and crocheting workshop for all interested families to come learn how to use these skills to cope with the stresses and heavy feelings of grief. 

Meeting: Saturday, April 30 from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Location: Children’s Hospital, 13123 East 16th Ave, Aurora, 80045

Contact: Michon Davies at TRU Community Care 303.604-5330 or  Cassie at Children’s Hospital cassandramatz@childrenscolorado.org.

Download the flyer here: Crochet Day Flyer 2016

Filed Under: Grief Groups, Adult, Children, Events, Community, Grief Tagged With: hospice, parents, crochet, Grief

Healing with Horses returns for 2016

April 20, 2016 by TRU Community Care

 

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We are currently taking applications for the summer sessions of Healing with Horses. This powerful experience combines equine-assisted activities with grief support for kids and teens ages 5 to 18, and provides a nurturing environment for expressing feelings, learning about grief coping strategies and exploring the healing process with peers who are also grieving a death loss.

Through Healing with Horses, grieving kids and teens:

  • Develop or improve equine skills
  • Work together in a safe and supportive setting, gaining trust in themselves and each other
  • Learn to control a horse, affording them opportunities to feel a genuine sense of accomplishment, greater confidence and inner strength
  • Share stories and memories, have fun and release physical and emotional energy
  • Become aware of the many aspects of the grieving process, and discover what will help and support them

When:        Runs through the fall on Tuesdays, from 5-6:30 p.m.

Location:  Medicine Horse, 8778 Arapahoe Road, Boulder CO, 80303 

Register:   Call Michon Davies 303-604-5330,

Pre-registration is required to participate.

For more details, see our grief services page.

Filed Under: Community, Healing with Horses, Grief Groups, Children, Grief Tagged With: horses, children, hospice, Grief

Healing Circles Mother’s Day Event

April 20, 2016 by TRU Community Care

Healing Circles MotMothers Day Wreathher’s Day Event

During this Mother’s Day, create something that you can hang and that will honor your special person. Kids process grief through play and art so every come and create something together. This art workshop is for kids, teens and families, helping them remember the special person who has died: a mother, an aunt, a grandma, a friend. Wreaths are often the symbols of the circle of life and of seasons.

This event will be held on Saturday, May 7 from 9:30 am. – 12:30 p.m. at the TRU Community Care Grief Services Office, 5565 Arapahoe Ste A, Boulder.

For more information or to reserve your spot, contact Michon Davies at 303.604-5330 or by email at michondavies@trucare.org.

Download the flyer here: Healing Circles Mother’s Day Flyer 2016

Filed Under: Community, Events, News, Children, Grief Groups, Holidays, Grief Tagged With: Mother's Day, children, Grief

Movie highlight: “Way to Go: Death and the Irish”

April 18, 2016 by TRU Community Care

 

As those involved in hospice know very well, death is something few in our society want to talk about or acknowledge, yet it is a certainty. Why bother talking about it at all? In this the documentary, filmmaker Norah Casey explores Ireland’s relationship with death, speaking to healthcare professionals as well as people with terminal illnesses who share their thoughts on the last months of their lives. The film also includes contributions from well-known figures such as Gabriel Byrne, broadcasters Marian Finucane and George Hook, plus comments from members of the Irish public.
Check out this thought-provoking piece meant to promote open discussion on the topics of death and dying, as it has as much to say to Boulder County as it does to Ireland. It may seem too early – until it’s too late.

Filed Under: Adult, Children, Advanced Directives, Community, Grief Tagged With: end-of-life, movies, Grief, death, documentary, hospice, Boulder

Get ready for Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!

March 28, 2016 by TRU Community Care

To quote Elvis Costello: “Each time I feel like this inside, there’s one thing I wanna know … Are you ready for Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!?”

OK, so maybe the lyrics didn’t go quite like that, but you should definitely mark your calendars for this year’s annual fundraising gala, PIZZAZ! Our theme for the Sept. 17 shindig is Peace, Love & PIZZAZ!, so get your best ’70s duds out for the occasion. More info will be on its way here, but here are the details so far:

What: PIZZAZ!, TRU’s annual fundraising gala
When: Saturday, September 17 at 6 p.m.
Where: Marriott Westminster, 7000 Church Ranch Blvd, Westminster, CO 80021
How much: $150 per person
Volunteers needed! Do you want to help plan our gala? Please contact Jessica Sharley at jessicasharley@trucare.org or 303.604.5389 to learn how you can help.

 

Filed Under: Community, PIZZAZ!, Events Tagged With: 1970s, PIZZAZ!, gala, fundraiser, hospice

Shop Amazon and Help TRU Hospice

March 8, 2016 by TRU Community Care

Did you know that you can shop on Amazon.com and donate to TRU Community Care at the same time – at no cost to you?

Here’s how it works. If you shop through the site smile.amazon.com, you’ll have access to all the products on amazon.com, but the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to a nonprofit of your choice.

Yes, you use the same account on Amazon.com and AmazonSmile. Your shopping cart, Wish List, wedding or baby registry, and other account settings are also the same. On your first visit to AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com), you need to select a charitable organization to receive donations from eligible purchases before you begin shopping. The website will remember your selection, and then every eligible purchase you make at smile.amazon.com will result in a donation.

So do your shopping and support Boulder area hospice care at the same time – it’s a win-win. Think of TRU next time you shop!

Filed Under: Giving Tagged With: Boulder, hospice, shopping, giving, online+shopping, nonprofit

Hiking Off the Grief with TRU

February 26, 2016 by TRU Community Care

Updated post! Dates are set for our kids-teens-and-parent hiking groups.

hiking photoOnce again this season, we will offer a way to combine exercise and support for people who are grieving or caregiving. The idea for organizing hikes came from a realization that “nature heals”, and that participating in a traditional grief support group, especially immediately after a loss, can be too difficult for some people.The hikes have a mostly free structure. Route, pace and duration are flexible, depending on the participants, the weather and the season.Making connections with fellow hikers, especially those who have shared similar losses, can be the greatest comfort. Caregivers too stand to benefit, both from the emotional support and respite these outings provide.
TRU Hiking Groups are open to Boulder hospice families, as well as the community. 

For Kids, Teens and Parents
This offering is for families – parents will go on one trail, teens will go on another and kids will go on their own.  Each group will have a group facilitator. We do a series of six hikes and you can remember your special person who has died, be around others that are going through the same thing and get support.
You are responsible for transportation to the meeting place at the trailhead each week and to bring water and snacks. Pre-registration required, with hikes starting on Tuesday, May 3 at 5 p.m. at the Chautauqua ranger station. See our grief services page for details and to RSVP.

 

Filed Under: Grief, Community Tagged With: Grief, outdoors, hiking, Boulder, hospice

5 Ways to Heal through Nature

February 26, 2016 by TRU Community Care

hiking photoHow can we consciously use nature to heal from grief? It’s a question that comes up here at TRU Community Care, and we recognize, especially in our active, outdoor-focused community, that people heal in many different ways. Here are several suggestions from Mother Nature Network.

  1. Explore nature-based rituals – There are a myriad of options for incorporating nature into ceremonies.
  2. Get out more – Simply set a routine to keep moving after the loss of a loved one.
  3. Use visualization – Hold images of nature in your mind, as an inspiration to keep going.
  4. Start a garden: For those who are grieving, gardening has many therapeutic qualities.
  5. Be creative – There is no “right way”… seek out ideas and activities that work for you.

    Adapted from “How Nature Can Help Us Heal From Grief” by Sami Grover. Mother Nature Network, April 16, 2013

Filed Under: Grief, Season Tagged With: Grief, outdoors

TRU Community Care Celebrates Four Decades of Service

February 16, 2016 by TRU Community Care

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LAFAYETTE, COLORADO – In 2016, TRU Community Care, founded in 1976 as the first Colorado hospice, is celebrating a major milestone.
This year marks the hospice service’s 40th anniversary, meaning that the nonprofit has been caring for those who are dying and their families for four decades. In celebration, TRU is planning two exciting 40th anniversary events throughout the year and sharing part of its history with the hospice community. June 26 will bring a 40th celebration party and groundbreaking for a new elder care and grief services facility, and TRU’s annual fundraiser, PIZZAZ!, will cap off the milestone with style on Sept. 17.

The Pioneers of the Early Years
TRU Community Care began as Boulder County Hospice in 1976, when one of the organization’s founders was asked, “Have you ever thought about starting a hospice?”
The question was posed to Beau Bohart Rezendes, who was finishing her Ph.D. dissertation on death and dying when she asked Dr. Darvin Smith what he thought could be done to help people who were dying or aged.  His thought-provoking response was the beacon that pointed the way for Bohart Rezendes. Before long, she was talking to anyone who would listen about starting a hospice in Boulder County.
Among those she approached were Kathryn Riddle-Oakes (then called Kitty Riddle), a well-known community organizer with vast experience in volunteer activities; Dr. Alan Snyder, an internist/oncologist at the Boulder Medical Center; and Karin Sobeck, who had just completed her master’s degree in mental health nursing and was holding workshops on death and dying across the country. Along with Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, a respected psychiatric nurse who was involved in grief-related work, this team of professionals added their talents and energy to the quest to bring hospice care to Boulder County.
“I think all of us came with the vision that there were better ways to care for people who were dying and grieving and that there were clear gaps in services,” said Lattanzi-Licht.

Taking the Next Steps with Hospice
Filling those gaps would prove to be a challenging mission. In the beginning, the group met in living rooms. They stored donations in a cigar box. They paid their own way to hospice care conferences on pain management. Despite such humble beginnings, they never wavered in their steadfast commitment to the cause, and by early 1977, Boulder County Hospice incorporated as a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization. Not surprisingly, its all-volunteer management team was comprised of the dedicated professionals who have come to be known as the nonprofit’s founders as well.
The organization’s first patient received hospice care in June of 1977. And thanks to one provocative question and five remarkable visionaries, the organization has grown to become TRU Community Care, offering hospice, palliative care, grief services, and soon TRU PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly.) PACE represents an opportunity to create a broader continuum of care for frail elders in Boulder and southwest Weld Counties in northern Colorado. The opening of the PACE site, which also will house TRU Hospice Grief Support, will be a chance to celebrate with the local community the years of service TRU has provided.
As TRU Community Care’s visionary founders look back on the organization’s past and to its future, they all agree – a dream has been fulfilled.

Filed Under: Community, Events, PIZZAZ!, News, 40th Anniversary

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About TRU

TRU Community Care (TRU) affirms life at every step of your journey with illness and loss. Our vision is to lead a healthcare transformation by engaging with our communities and offering innovative, meaningful care for those living with illness and loss.

Founded as Boulder Hospice in 1976, TRU is a Colorado-licensed, Medicare and Medicaid-certified, nonprofit health care organization serving Boulder, Broomfield, Adams, Jefferson, Arapahoe, Denver, and Weld Counties and beyond. With a focus on providing a continuum of care for members of our community living with advanced illness and loss, TRU’s programs include TRU Hospice, TRU PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly), TRU Palliative Care, Landmark Memory Care, and TRU Grief Services.

TRU Hospice is proudly accredited by The Joint Commission and is a five-star-level hospice in NHPCO's We Honor Veterans program created in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). TRU is a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovation (NPHI), the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE), and the National PACE Association (NPA).

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