| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1525 | |||||||||
| Hospice Clergy Education Enhancement Project | |||||||||
| Requester: | David Abrams | Organization: | Hospice Foundation of America | ||||||
| Project Title: | Hospice Clergy Education Enhancement Project | Date Submitted | 1/15/2003 9:42:08 AM | ||||||
| Sponsors: | Cantens | ||||||||
| Statewide Interest: | |||||||||
| This program is designed to reduce reliance on expensive, futile care at the end of life for terminally ill persons. | |||||||||
| Recipient: | David Abrams | Contact: | David Abrams | ||||||
| 12000 Biscayne Boulevard #505 | Contact Phone: | (305) 981-2522 | |||||||
| Miami 33181 | |||||||||
| Counties: | {Statewide} | ||||||||
| Gov't Entity: | Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): | Yes | |||||||
| Project Description: | |||||||||
| The Goal of the Hospice Clergy Education Project is to provide information on the needs of the dying, and their families, to clergy members to enable them to better minister to their family members in the event of terminal illness. Many individuals with a terminal disease or illness which is no longer responding to aggresive care will continue costly and unnecessary treatments because of misinformation or perceptions that their faith would not allow pallative care. This causes them to undergo painful treatment which has little or no hope of succeeding; it places a financial and emotional drain on their families; it causes finacial stress on the medical system and on the state, in the case of Medicaid recipients. Clergy members receive no formal training in advising, assisting and supporting people through end-of-life crises. Educating faith communitieswould help in two ways: 1. It can assist clergy and other leaders to clarify the perspectives and ethical stances on end of life decisions. 2. It can assist faith communities in educating their members in times of non-crises. | |||||||||
| Is this a water project as described in Chapter 2002-291, Laws of Florida? | No | ||||||||
| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: | |||||||||
| Grief has demonstrated negative effects on physical and mental health. Faith communities that can engage in ministry to the bereaved utilizing the latest bereavement techniques will mitigate the deleterious physical and mental effects of loss(depression, morbidity, mortality), returning people more rapidly to a healthier condition. Yet clergy often have little training and limited knowledge of grief. The Hospice Clergy Education Project will increase knowledge about end-of-life options, increase hospice referrals and influence the length of stay in hospice. Additionally, clergy communities can often provide volunteer services that supplement and enhance care, making people less dependent on more costly, futile aggressive care, thereby reducing the overall costs of the medical system | |||||||||
| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: | $350,000 | ||||||||
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| Amount to be reduced: | $ | ||||||||
| Total cost of the project: | $350,000 | ||||||||
| Request has been made to fund: | Operations | ||||||||
| What type of match exists for this project? | Private | ||||||||
| Cash Amount | $ | In-kind Amount | $25,000 | ||||||
| Was this project previously funded by the state? | Yes | Fiscal Year: | 2002-2003 | Amount: | $262,500 | ||||
| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? | No | ||||||||
| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? | No | ||||||||
| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? | Unknown | ||||||||
| Is there a documented need for this project? | Yes | ||||||||
| Documentation: | "Clergy Understandings of Grief", "Living with Grief", Panel for the Study of End of Life Care | ||||||||
| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? | Yes | ||||||||
| Hearing Body: | Miami-Dade County Legislative Delegation | ||||||||
| Hearing Meeting Date: | 12/04/2002 | ||||||||