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Our Services
Locations
1304 Pacific St.
San Luis Obispo
93401
805-544-2266
1345
Oak St.
Paso Robles
805-434-1164
Hours
SLO:
Mon – Fri
8:30am–4:30 pm
Paso Robles:
by appointment
We’re here to help.
For Tips for Coping with Loss, click here.
Our Services
Grief
Counseling
Hospice Bereavement Services are provided
by both professionals and professionally trained lay volunteers. Supportive
grief counselling, and wellness counseling to support seriously ill
individuals and thier families and friends, is available to anyone in
our community at no chanrge for up to 10 sessions. Counseling sessions
typically provide clients with both emotional support and an opportunity
to explore how they can more effectively negotiate end-of-life challenges.
In addition to individual and family counseling, we offer education about the frief process and what you may experience. All our client services are without charge and most are offered in Spanish as well as English.
Hospice has an active Children's Program. These services include: Individual and family counseling, children and teen support groups, parents support group, training and educational programs for teachers and other child care professionals, on-site crisis response at schools, and classroom presentations.
Support
Groups
The Hospice Bereavement Program offers Support Groups
that meet to deal with the issues of grief, provide emotional support
and education about the grief process. Grief support meetings are offered
according to the needs of the community. Drop-in general bereavement
meetings are offered without charge in North and South County locations
as well as in San Luis Obispo.
Please call to confirm time and dates.
Groups devoted to specific grief issues include:
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Widowed Persons Support Groups are available in San Luis Obispo and North County.
- Open Bereavement Support Groups - Tuesday evenings in SLO.
- Wellness Support - for those living with life threatening illness. 2 groups held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Family and Friends - weekly support for family and friends of someone seriously ill. Meets on Fridays in SLO.
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Weekly Suicide Bereavement—meets weekly in SLO
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Parkinson's—support for caregivers of someone diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Meets monthly on a Wednesday.
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Child/Teen Groups—meet two times annually for eight weeks.
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Perinatal Loss Groups are also offered as needed to those who face pre-birth and stillborn loss.
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Survivors of Violent Crime provides support for family members and friends of someone who died as a result of violence. This group meets when there are enough interested participants.
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A Pet Loss Group meets the first Tuesday of every month in San Luis Obispo.
Community Crisis Response
The goal of the Community Crisis Response Program
is to provide timely support and education about grief and coping with
loss, including sudden death. Community Crisis Response services are
provided to businesses, schools, churches, government and commmunity
agencies.
In-Home
Volunteer Support
In-Home volunteers offer respite care to relieve the primary care person.
Volunteers also offer emotional and practical support, including:
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light housekeeping tasks
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meal preparation
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companionship
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errands
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transportation
Hospice volunteers provide a consistent supportive presence for the entire family. By utilizing a blend of professional and volunteer skills, the Hospice staff offers a comprehensive, integrated care program capable of giving specialized and sensitive volunteer support to clients and their families at no charge. This is made possible by:
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A small paid staff who train and facilitate the services of 50 to 70 consistently active in-home volunteers;
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Working in cooperation with home health agencies and many other existing community service programs and facilities; and
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The generous financial support of local individuals, organizations, and the business community.
Community
Education and Training
Hospice staff and volunteers offer diverse educational presentations to
community members and health professionals.
Hospice Volunteer Training is
open to all interested persons and is offered twice annually. This inclusive
32-hour training covers communication skills, hospice history and philosophy,
the patient and family as a unit of care, the grief process, symptom and
pain management, relaxation techniques, cultural and spiritual issues,
and all aspects of the role of the volunteer. The training is now offered
in Spanish as well as English.
Child Bereavement Training provides education
and guidance to parents, counselors, and teachers who are on the front
line with children in our community.
Adult Bereavement Training is offered to the community at large to help build a foundation of qualified individuals, professionals, and lay personnel to help identify and support others and themselves through the grief process.
Professional Grief Training is designed for professional caregivers to identify and receive support for their own issues of grief and loss.
Workshops offered include "Life After Loss" and "Coping with the Holidays."
Book Circles and Life Review help raise awareness of end-of-life issues.
Servicios
en Español
Hospice of San Luis Obispo ofrece nuestros servicios de
apoyo, consejeria y educacion en espanol. Para mas informacion ver a "Servicios
en Espanol" en la pagina primera.
Resource
Center & Lending Library
The Resource Center in the Hospice office at the Dorothy
D. Rupe Center supplies books, pamphlets, audio and video tapes, articles,
and current information on grief-related subjects.