NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards: Nominations close Friday
Nominations for the 2018 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards close this Friday so get your nominations in quickly. Volunteers make a significant contribution to ...
Long serving advocate recognised for significant achievements in volunteer management
Anne-Marie Traynor has accumulated a wealth of experience over the 23 years that she has been managing volunteers at Calvary Kogarah. So much so that ...
Free one day palliative care seminar rich in spirituality and art
There are only two profound spiritual questions: What’s happening? And what matters? You and I aren’t there to give them answers…but we can be there ...
Webinar to explore ethical issues in aging for people with intellectual disabilities
12th April 2018. The Australian Society for Intellectual Disabilities (NSW / ACT), in partnership with Palliative Care NSW, is hosting an interactive webinar furthering the ...
Save the Date! Inaugural Volunteer Managers Conference 7-8 May
7-8 May 2018. The inaugural Palliative Care Volunteer Managers Conference will be held at Coolangatta Estate on the NSW south coast on 7th & 8th ...
National Palliative Care Conference: Special rate for volunteers
National Conference Adelaide 6-8 September 2017. The Australian Palliative Care Conference (APCC17) program has a strong clinical content, with presentations on complex issues including pain ...
Dying to Know Day – start a conversation!
8 August 2017. Dying to Know Day events activate conversations and curiosity, build death literacy and help grow the capacity of individuals and community groups ...
Certificate 4 in Coordination of Volunteer Programs
For new, experienced or aspiring Volunteer Managers and Coordinators The Centre for Volunteering offers a 1 year Certificate 4 in Coordination of Volunteer Programs. "This ...
Video: The experience of the Palliative Care Volunteer Part Two
“If you ask the family ‘what’s the best thing about the care of this kid?’ it’s almost always the volunteer.” Jude, CNC Palliative Care, The ...
Only 3 weeks to go! Managing Volunteers – Understanding the Legal Issues Workshop 23rd March 2017
Only 3 weeks to go! This free full day workshop will provide essential training for anyone in a position of managing or co-ordinating palliative care ...
Volunteers fill Liverpool Hospital with songs from yesteryear
Read the original story by Stacy Thomas in the Liverpool Leader. Singers are filling the Liverpool Hospital palliative care ward with songs from yesteryear. The ...
International AIDS Day: Remembering the volunteer response
From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s volunteers from AIDS and other organisations rallied to support those suffering and dying from AIDS. The initial focus of care ...
Life and Death: the same preparation
“A dying person senses at least one thing that nobody knows – that all certainty is false and that when confronted with death everyone is ...
International Volunteer Managers Day 5th November
November 5th is International Volunteer Managers Day, a day that recognises the contribution of Volunteer Managers in mobilising and inspiring volunteer effort. The International Volunteer ...
Tweed hospice President an Australian of the Year finalist
Read the original story in EchoNet Daily. Meredith Dennis, the inspiring head of Tweed-based charity Tweed Palliative Support and Wedgetail Retreat community hospice, has just ...
Wisdom and experience shared with first trainees in Western Sydney
Training is well underway for the first group of palliative care volunteers to join Western Sydney LHD, with an experienced colleague from a neighbouring area ...
Volunteers and care planning in Colorado
Like many jurisdictions the US state of Colorado has and is working towards a better end of life support for residents through the development of ...
Lonely: An essay on life, loss and MND
Peter Kilgannon was a 48 year old husband and father living with Motor Neurone Disease when he wrote this piece on his experience of his ...
South Coast volunteers recognised for their efforts
See the original story by Nicole Johnstone in the Illawarra Mercury. Twelve palliative care volunteers from Port Kembla Hospital were among those recognised at the ...
Spirituality and volunteers: reporting from the Hospice NZ Conference
What is spirituality? What skills do volunteers need in order to be good at spirituality? Clinicians and volunteers alike often feel compelled to do something ...