INELDA Update – SEPTEMBER 2022
WELCOME BOARD MEMBER ANGELYN FRAZER-GILES
We are excited to add more expertise to our board of trustees. This past month Angelyn Frazer-Giles joined the board, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences.
Angelyn Frazer-Giles has over 25 years of experience in community organizing, policy analysis, and advocacy on civil and human rights issues and criminal justice. She is the founder and CEO of Heirloom Estate and Legacy Preservation (HELP), LLC, a firm that provides consultation, webinars, and tools designed to educate individuals about the elements of end-of-life planning. HELP encourages and empowers individuals to have open dialogue, mediation, or counseling with family members prior to a major illness, incapacity, or death to ensure personal affairs and effects are handled according to the wishes of the individual.
She also consults with criminal justice organizations in forming strategic partnerships and develops and manages special projects associated with collateral consequences of incarceration, race in the criminal justice system, policing, juvenile justice, and numerous other criminal justice issues.
INELDA DISCOVERY CALLS
Feeling called to become an end-of-life doula? Join us on an upcoming discovery call. Learn about the topics covered in INELDA’s end-of-life doula training, what it’s like being a doula, and have your questions addressed by people working and teaching in the field. Dr. Jamie Eaddy Chism will host the evening and invite you to learn more about the INELDA community. See our calendar of events below for events in October and December.
Discovery call – OCTOBER
October 12 | WED 8pm–9pm ET
Discovery call – DECEMBER
December 10 | SAT 2pm–3pm ET
CERTIFICATION Q&A NIGHT
INELDA is launching our new certification program. Dr. Jamie Eaddy Chism will host a Q&A night Tuesday, October 4, from 8:00–9:30 p.m. (ET) to answer all questions about certification. We appreciate those of you who have been waiting for this relaunch and are excited to walk you through the process of becoming an INELDA certified end-of-life doula. SIGN UP HERE
INELDA JOINS C-TAC and NACHW
Over the recent months INELDA has joined as a member in organizations whose policies and advocacy work supports the work of end-of-life doulas and others in the field of death care. We are excited to call ourselves members of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and the National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW).
C-TAC mission is to ensure support for those experiencing serious illness and for those who care for them by serving as the national advocacy voice and catalyst for an influential network of coalition members, partners, and policy makers.
The mission of NACHW is to unify the voices of community health workers and strengthen the profession’s capacity to promote healthy communities.
IN THE NEWS
This month INELDA and the work of INELDA-trained end-of-life doulas were featured in Associations Now, Vox, and Westword.
- Doug Simpson and Loren Talbot were interviewed by Michael Hickey in Associations Now about “Lessons in Listening From INELDA”.
- INELDA-trained doula and yoga teacher Veronica Wiley was interviewed by Catie Cheshire in Westword about Veronica’s corpse pose yoga workshops.
- INELDA-trained doula and author Rachel Friedman wrote a piece in Vox on how to make the most of your time on earth.