Without the generosity of our many supporters and volunteers, we wouldn’t be able to make the impact that we do on our community.
That is why it is with great joy that we celebrate our hardworking staff here at Hospice of Santa Barbara. I’m very pleased and excited to announce that one of our longtime employees,
HSB counselor Mary Wagner
, was recently awarded “Older Worker of the Year” in Santa Barbara County.
Our Mary is most deserving of this recognition. For the last 16 years, she has worked as a Bereavement Counselor at Hospice of Santa Barbara, comforting those who are grieving or facing a life-threatening illness. Her warm personality and kind heart help alleviate the fear and loneliness some of our patients experience during the most trying times.
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Now Providing Patient Care Services and Bereavement
Services in Carpinteria
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Compassionate Care of Carpinteria's Patient Care Services department provides a comprehensive continuum of care free of charge to patients at any stage of a life-threatening illness.
Our team provides:
- Social Work & Care Management including in-home evaluations, medical navigation, coordination of care, and advance care planning
- Spiritual and Emotional Counseling
- Trained volunteers who provide social, emotional, and practical support including transportation, thoughtful companionship and in-home assistance with everyday items
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"Their Story," by Tianna Swede-Laskin
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As a social worker, I cannot medicate a patient's pain. My role is to see a patient as part of a family system with a past, present, and future, within their own cultural context. [...] Above all else, my duty is to ensure that the patient and family I work with are authoring their own story."
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"Stargazer," by Kathryn Sweeney-James
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"And then you were released,
like stars in a blanket of
Deep black midnight"
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Read Kathryn's poem, "Stargazer," in memory of her late husband. Originally from the small village of Rocky Hill, New Jersey, Kathryn Sweeney-James was raised in the Princeton area and earned her B.A. at Westmont College. She twice double-handed a 42 ft. sailboat to the South Pacific and spends her leisure time in Santa Barbara hiking and writing.
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Thank You, Santa Barbara Foundation!
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Thank you to the
Santa Barbara Foundation
for their generous grant of
$25,000
to help support HSB’s work in our community’s recovery efforts.
Thank you to the Santa Barbara Foundation Community Disaster Relief Fund for your hard work in organizing and distributing this fund.
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Pre-group assessments are required prior to attending. No drop-ins please.
You may inquire online or by calling our intake coordinator at (805) 563-8820.
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1st & 3rd Wednesday Evenings
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For people healing from the death of a loved one by suicide. In this group, members will share their grief and develop strategies for coping with their loss
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Men's Grief and Spirituality Group
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Join other men as we search for meaning of our loss and creative outlets for working through grief.
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"I Have A Friend" Program
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Hospice Volunteer Training Fall 2018
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Patient Care Volunteers enhance the quality of life of those impacted by a serious illness and their family by providing social, emotional, and practical support.
Our next Volunteer Training will take place over 6 consecutive Tuesdays, from
September 25th to October 30th
, 2018 from 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm.
Please submit your application by September 14th, 2018
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Thank You to Our Volunteers!
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We celebrated our volunteers with a Luau-themed Volunteer Appreciation party on Thursday, May 24th, to show our appreciation for all of the meaningful work they do serving people in our community living with serious illness.
During the program portion of this event, each volunteer was presented with an individualized card that was read aloud, including a quote from a person or family member whose life they have directly touched.
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This month we are collecting items for Friendship Center.
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We are collecting NEW sensory items such as:
- Weighted Blankets
- Coloring Books
- Squish Balls
- Aromatherapy Sets
- Baby Dolls
- Weighted Bean Bags
- Shoulder Wraps
- Fidgets
- Puzzles & Matching Games
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Friendship Center is a social model Adult Day Care Center with locations in Montecito and Goleta. They serve people with cognitive decline, Alzheimer's, and other types of dementia.
If you want to help, please drop off items in the HSB SHARES box in our main lobby!
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- Thank you to Dream Foundation's Flower Empower program, Valerie Banks, and April Medina-Watson for the flower bouquets they handcrafted for HSB's clients. A special thank you to Robin Himovitz for baking homemade chocolate chip cookies.
- Thank you to Yoga Soup for their ongoing support to HSB staff
- Thank you to Whole Foods for their weekly donation of flower bouquets to our clients
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Help Fulfill Our Wish List
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- Gift cards to Bed Bath & Beyond/Amazon/Target (home goods stores) for family of mudslide victims to furnish new homes
- Gift cards to Michael's for Children and Family Services' therapeutic art projects
- Books: See HSB's Amazon Wish List for details
- Gift certificates for ice cream or frozen yogurt, movie passes, museum passes and Zodo's Bowling passes for 'I Have a Friend' Program
- Grocery store, gas gift cards, and bakery gift certificates (Our families celebrate birthdays and death anniversaries of their loved ones)
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Thank you for all that you do to support our work!
It is a remarkable privilege to witness the difference we make for those we serve on a daily basis. it is only through your generosity that we can accomplish all that we do and will in the future.
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Phone:
(805) 563-8820
Fax:
(805) 563-8821
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