HFA was awarded a grant by the State of Florida to develop the End-of-Life Clergy Education Project. The outcome of the project was a comprehensive continuing education program for clergy focused on end-of-life care, hospice care, and bereavement care.
Other HFA projects
Project Talk Trial
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Project Talk Trial is a five-year national, randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate different approaches for engaging underserved individuals in end-of-life care planning. The goal of the Trial is to evaluate the impact of several approaches to promote advance care planning in underserved populations (such as ethnic…
Autism & Grief Project
With generous support from the NLM Family Foundation, HFA has developed autismandgrief.org, a website to foster a healthier grief experience for adults with autism. The website empowers adults with autism by acknowledging their varied grief reactions and provides information that family, friends, and professionals can use to provide effective support. The five-year project, now in…
Using Facebook to Encourage Advance Care Planning
With funding from the John and Wauna Harman Foundation, HFA is exploring the efficacy of using Facebook groups to facilitate advance care planning (ACP) concerning their end-of-life healthcare wishes, emphasizing the need to make ACP more accessible to underserved populations. The pilot will launch in late 2024.