Hospice gets funding to counsel Gulf residents using “bereavement specialist” — Mission is to provide help “during times of life-limiting illnesses”

(the dreaded words, "We've called in Hospice" . . . how much more in-your-face can it get??)

Florida Oil Spill Law

After oil spill, Covenant Hospice expands reach with Pepsi grant, Destin Log, November 28, 2010

“Pepsi made $1.3 million available in August for grant awards to communities that had been affected by the oil spill,” Lill Jennings, development specialist at the Niceville/Crestview Covenant Hospice told The Log. …

Covenant Hospice plans to offer 36 workshops during the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011. …

The Strength and Resilience Community Workshops will focus on refreshing ways to cope with loss, and support each other through times of changes, stress and grief. …

Each workshop will be led by a Covenant Hospice social worker or bereavement specialist, all of whom have social work training and extensive experience in working with adults, children and families in crisis.

Covenant Hospice’s Mission:

Covenant Hospice is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate services to patients and their loved ones during times of life-limiting illnesses.

Since dying is a part of the normal process of life, the focus of Covenant Hospice is to enable our patients to live as fully and comfortably as possible, to provide dignified palliative care, to assist patients’ loved ones in coping with end-of-life issues and the eventual death of the patient, and to improve care for all patients at the end of their lives by example and education.

Covenant Hospice exists in the hope and belief that through appropriate care, education and the promotion of a supportive community sensitive to the needs of the persons facing the end of life, patients and their loved ones may be able to obtain physical, mental, and spiritual preparation for the end of life, bereavement and renewal.