INELDA Update – JUNE 2024
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNTIES
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
ROSEVILLE, CALIFORNIA (Placer County and parts of Sacramento County)
Sutter Care at Home in Roseville, California, is looking for any doulas who have an interest in getting field hours. Anyone who is interested in volunteering must meet volunteer department requirements. If you meet the volunteer requirements and this program sounds like a good fit for you, please fill out the volunteer inquiry form.
Requirements include:
- Access to a vehicle for transportation to hospice visits
- Valid driver’s license
- Current automobile insurance
- Completion of online volunteer training
- Criminal initial and ongoing background check; we regret that we are unable to accept volunteers with prior felony convictions
- Drug screen
- Annual tuberculin skin test or blood test (*new volunteers must complete two tuberculosis tests prior to volunteering)
- Immunity to MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) and varicella (chicken pox)
- Tdap vaccine
- Annual flu vaccination
- You must be at least 18 years old to apply for hospice
*Sutter will provide health screenings and any necessary tests or vaccinations.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
HospiceCare in the Berkshires is looking for hospice volunteers to join our dedicated care team. For more than 35 years, HospiceCare in The Berkshires has been caring for generations of neighbors throughout Berkshire County, providing support and care for those living with a life-limiting illness. Volunteers will have the opportunity to help out where they feel most comfortable, whether it is spending time with patients or working in the office. To learn more, contact Lori Johnson by email or call 413-443-2994.
SUPPORT DUKE RESEARCH
SUPPORT DUKE STUDY RESEARCH
Dr. Dan Ariely, founder of the Center of Advanced Hindsight, and undergraduate researcher Jenna Yeam are seeking to interview death doulas in the United States about “what is going wrong at the end of life.” You may have already been contacted, but the research team is still recruiting interview participants.
This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at Duke University, and interviews will take place over Zoom, lasting for 45 to 60 minutes. Following completion, participants will be compensated with a $20 Amazon gift card. If you are interested in participating in this study, please fill out this interest form.
CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS!
We would like to congratulate Dr. Devin Guthrie on becoming an INELDA-certified end-of-life doula. Dr. Guthrie is based in Texas and offers life and death coaching.
If you are interested in finding out more about becoming an INELDA-certified doula, email us at [email protected]
STAFF UPDATES
STAFF UPDATES
- Educator Omni Kitts Ferrara has moved into the role of curriculum advisor, and Katina Perkins has expanded into the role of the director of operations.
- We would like to welcome educator Jason Callahan, who joins INELDA from Richmond, Virginia. After a decade of being a professional chaplain specializing in end-of-life spiritual support within a medical system, he “decided the best way to support others is by sharing knowledge and experience with those that seek to be present with and hold the stories of others experiencing this sacred time in their lives.”
- Please also welcome Christian Andrade, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and Alida Merrill, based in Rochester, New York, who will be supporting INELDA as educator assistants. They both bring deep knowledge and experience to our team.
- We would like to welcome back educator Marady Duran, MSW, who will be teaching as well as staffing INELDA’s Emotional Support Center.
- Lastly, we would like to thank Kris Kington-Barker for her invaluable work and the energy she brought to INELDA. We wish her the best of luck.
IN THE NEWS
IN THE NEWS
Daily Mail has published an article featuring executive director Douglas Simpson and educator Wilka Roig, along with INELDA-certifed doula Laura Lyster-Mensh, about the role of end-of-life doulas and the support we offer.