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At Zen Caregiving Project, our partners are a key component of the work we do to support caregivers. Through their sponsorships, these businesses help us advance our mission to enhance the experience of care for caregivers and care recipients. We are grateful for their critical support and the impact they make every day.
Zen Caregiving Project has partnered with Elder Ashram to offer mindfulness- and compassion-based courses to all Elder Ashram staff who will earn a certificate of completion after their coursework is finished. The program will include mindfulness-based tools and techniques for employees to build emotional resilience and mindfulness in caregiving so that staff can become more attentive and present focused caregivers with compassion and mindfulness toward themselves.
Sutter Health is a non-profit healthcare provider in California, with an established Palliative Care department. Zen Caregiving Project has partnered with Sutter Health on a two-year project, beginning with mindfulness-based sessions to support Palliative Care staff. The program will extend to supporting family caregivers, teaching practical, mindfulness-based tools and techniques to build emotional resilience.
This partnership has been funded as part of the generous health systems grant from the Stupski Foundation which aims to transform how people experience the end of life in the Bay area.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) provides care for the people of San Francisco, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status. Zen Caregiving Project has partnered with ZSFG on a three-year project to develop training and materials that equip hospital staff to deliver Mindful Caregiving support sessions to family caregivers of cancer patients. To read more please see our blog on the project.
This partnership has been funded as part of the generous health systems grant from the Stupski Foundation which aims to transform how people experience the end of life in the Bay area.
Imerman Angels is a non-profit that provides comfort and understanding to those experiencing cancer by matching them with a Mentor Angel, a cancer survivor or caregiver who has faced the same type of cancer. ZCP delivered sessions to the Imerman Angels Staff on grief and compassion, and ran a session on Grief Awareness day for the Imerman Angels community. We will be working with Imerman Angels on future training and resources addressing grief for Mentor Angels and Mentees.
Curry Senior Center is a non-profit in San Francisco dedicated to helping vulnerable, low-income, and homeless seniors through a holistic and integrated care approach. Zen Caregiving Project delivered two extended online sessions to frontline staff at Curry Senior Center. These sessions explored loss and grief within the work context, and provide tools and practices to build emotional resilience and enhance wellbeing.
Laguna Honda Hospital is a skilled nursing and rehabilitation center owned and run by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, committed to providing care to the diverse communities of San Francisco.
For over 30 years, our organization has been recruiting, training, and managing a cohort of volunteers to serve on the palliative care ward of Laguna Honda Hospital. Volunteers commit to a weekly five-hour shift for a minimum of a year. Many volunteers choose to continue service, with an average tenure of service being five years. There are 70 volunteers currently serving, providing a total of 19,000 hours per year of compassionate and mindful-based care to persons living with chronic and terminal illness.
The Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) is a non-profit with the aim of supporting Chinese Americans facing the end of life with dignity and respect. Zen Caregiving Project collaborated with CACCC to translate our Mindful Family Caregiving program into Mandarin and train CACCC volunteers in the delivery of Mindful Family Caregiving modules. These trained volunteers are now delivering the program to Chinese-speaking family caregivers. Read more in our blog.
In response to the burnout of healthcare workers during the COVID pandemic, 1440 Multiversity has created Healing Our Healthcare Heroes (HOHH), a program to care for the mental health and wellbeing of healthcare professionals. Zen Caregiving Project has partnered with 1440 Multiversity to deliver a core session in the program on Healing and Loss. The program aims to reach over 1000 local healthcare professionals in the Bay Area and beyond.
The Institute on Aging is one of Zen Caregiving Project’s ongoing partners offering us in-kind meeting and gathering spaces for our staff and volunteer teams. In 2020 and 2021, in response to the impact of COVID-19 on caregivers, Zen Caregiving Project and Institute on Aging partnered to design, market and deliver a number of free online sessions. Some of the sessions were open to everyone and others were tailored to the needs of professional caregivers. Institute on Aging provided CE credits for the professional caregiver courses. In total, ZCP ran 27 free sessions in 2020 reaching 1700 people from across the US and globally, and we continued to run free sessions in 2021.
The San Francisco In-Home Support Services (IHSS) help older adults and persons with disabilities receive care in their homes. Zen Caregiving Project (then known as Zen Hospice Project) partnered with IHSS to deliver our Mindful Caregiver Courses to five groups of caregivers, 67 caregivers in total. Each course ran for two half-days and was tailored to the needs of both the professional and family caregivers that attended. Eighty-five percent of attendees felt the training would be useful in their caregiving.
Community Forward SF is a non-profit that offers a collection of services to the hardest to reach, most vulnerable people in San Francisco. Services include housing, medical shelter, a sobering center, and a women’s shelter. Zen Caregiving Project ran an initial session with the Clinical Team at Community Forward SF that explored loss in the context of caregiving. We are continuing to work together to develop further staff programming.
Cambia Health Solutions, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is dedicated to transforming health care. They are a family of over 20 companies that work together to make the health care system more economically sustainable and efficient for people and families. The organization supports a Caregiver and Palliative Care Employee Resource Group (CARE-PC ERG) of over 200 employees, who come together monthly to share experiences and support each other. In Fall 2019, Zen Caregiving Project ran an online six-week Mindful Family Caregiving course for Cambia employees in the employee resource group. Feedback was positive and Zen Caregiving Project ran a further 10-session online course for the ERG in 2020.