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Education and Outreach

We are committed to partnering with community organizations to provide expert support and education regarding end-of-life issues. We offer a wide range of topics and can customize offerings based on needs and interests. Our presenters and counselors with extensive training and experience speak and offer support in schools, healthcare facilities, and community organizations.

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Clinical Education Topics

  • Pain/symptom management 101
  • What to expect at end of life
  • Difficult conversations at end of life
  • Medical aid in dying
  • Ethics 101
  • Culturally competent practice
  • Professional boundaries
  • Communication skills
  • Serving veterans at end of life
  • Doc talks
  • Working with challenging families
  • Supporting staff moral distress

Grief Support Topics

  • Facility memorials
  • Community memorials
  • Supporting child/teen grief
  • Grief support for professional caregivers
  • Grief in the workplace
  • Coping with loss during the holidays

General Community Outreach Topics

  • Hospice 101
  • Grief 101
  • Advance directives
  • Caregiver stress
  • Doc-to-doc talks
  • Veterans
  • Intimacy and illness
  • PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly)

Whether you’re looking for information on a specific topic, need workplace support for a difficult loss, or want us to tailor a presentation to your organization’s unique needs, let us know how we can help. Here is our latest list of suggested education and outreach topics. Please contact us with your request.

KGNU Interviews

Listen to TRU’s Former Director of Community Education in a discussion of end-of-life planning. The interview also includes suggestions for grieving during the holidays and the top five regrets of dying people.

  • Listen to the End-of-Life planning interview »

  • Listen to the Grieving During the Holidays interview »

  • Listen to the ‘Top Five Regrets of Dying People’ interview »

  • Listen as TRU Medical Director and CMO Dr. John Massone and Director of Community Education Kim Mooney discuss excellence in end-of-life care »

  • Listen to a discussion by TRU Director of Community Education and Porter Storey, M.D., called “TRU Dying Isn’t All About the Body.” »

Grief Rituals

TRU’s Director of Community Education talks about grief rituals at the 2009 Association for Death Education and Counseling Conference. Watch on YouTube »

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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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TRU Grief Services
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2594 Trailridge Drive East
Lafayette, CO 80026

TRU Hospice Care Center
1950 Mountain View Avenue
4th Floor South
Longmont, CO 80501

TRU Thrift Shop
5565 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80303

TRU PACE Program
2593 Park Lane
Lafayette, CO 80026

TRU Denver Office
1415 Park Avenue West
Denver, CO 80205

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