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Please Note: We are in the process of updating and expanding Advance Care Planning tools and resources found on this website. There may be some links that are temporarily disabled in the process. Our aplogies for any inconvenience this may cause. This website enrichment effort is made possible thanks to support from the California HealthCare Foundation based in Oakland, CA. (SK 12/29/08)

Welcome to CaringCommunity.org—an online resource for people considering, planning for or engaged in end-of-life issues. This site was developed and is maintained by the Journey Project, a program of the Community Network for Appropriate Technologies, a nonprofit educational and charitable organization serving the Sonoma County, California region since 1978.

courtesy Midwest Bioethics Center

Through this site, you can access Advance Care Planning tools and resources essential for charting one’s course and guiding care through life-limiting illness and the ending of life. Excerpts are also provided from Journey to Life’s End—A Traveler’s Guide (by Susan Keller, the Executive Director of the Community Network).

The Self-Help Education section provides articles addressing the full spectrum of life care issues including pain management, dying at home, life review, values-based end-of-life care planning, and more. There too we offer a variety of annotated links to other websites about health and well being, disease management, and a full spectrum of end of life issues. The Support Group clearinghouse provides easy access to related support group programs offered in the Sonoma County region.

Elsewhere on this site you can learn about the Journey Project Resource Center open to the public and located at the Environmental Center of Sonoma County located at 55A Ridgeway Avenue in Santa Rosa near Coddingtown. And you can access local community programs in the Sonoma County region that help care for the frail and dying and their caregivers. A number of the programs offer opportunities to volunteer or otherwise assist.

The End of Life Care Alliance of Sonoma County, now known as the Journey Project Coordinating Council, is a co-sponsor of this website and a Speakers Bureau for groups interested to learn more.

Professional users can find annotated links to online educational opportunities and organizations working to improve care at life’s end. Information concerning legislative issues, finances, and analysis of emerging models of care also may be found on this site.

Radio programs offering music appropriate for contemplation and easing people through the ending of life, as well as radio programs addressing substantive issues, are available here.

We hope you will enjoy the site and find things of value to you and those for whom you care. Please let us know if you have suggestions or know of resources that should be included.

Thanks for stopping by and viewing what we have to offer. Your support and contributions enable this work to grow. Thank you.