News and Events
B.U.N.S. - Baking Up Nice Surprises
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Save the Date!
KishHealth Foundation Formal Affair
March 10, 2012, 6 p.m.
NIU Holmes Student Center - Duke Ellington Ballroom
The Ultimate Musical Experience Provided by Glen Traeger Orchestra
www.glentraeger.com
6:00 pm - Cocktails (open bar) with Hors d'oeuvres
7:00 pm - Served Dinner with Wine
8:00 pm - Dancing
Proceeds will be used where the need is greatest for KishHealth System's not-for-profit entities - Kishwaukee Community Hospital, Valley West Community Hospital, DeKalb County Hospice and Community Cares Clinic.
UPCOMING
Powerful Tools for Caregivers
Tuesdays, March 13 - April 17
6 - 7:30pm, DeKalb County Hospice
If you regularly take time to help a loved one with errands, personal care, living arrangements, financial and legal concerns or other activities, you are a caregiver. And frankly, caregiving can be stressful - physically, emotionally and financially. Powerful Tools for Caregiversis an educational program designed to provide you - the caregiver - with the tools needed to take care of yourself. You will learn how to:
- Reduce stress
- Improve self-confidence
- Better communicate your feelings
- Balance your life
- Increase ability to make tough decisions
- Learn to locate helpful resources
America's Living with Grief:
End-of-Life Ethics Series
April 19, 2012
DeKalb County Hospice will again host the Hospice Foundation of America's Living
With Grief: End-of-life Ethics series on Thursday April 19, 2012.
Ethical decisions at the end-of-life provide a point where all the factors that
influence end-of-life care such as finances, laws, values, culture, and technology
converge. The decisions that are made at the end-of-life affect not only the way
that the person dies, but also the ways that survivors face the loss. These decisions
may influence staff - affecting morale and turnover and consequently directly influencing
patient care as well as families struggling with grief. This program explores ethical
dilemmas that are likely to arise at the end-of-life, the principles of ethical
decision-making and the effects of these decisions on staff and families. Case studies
will be used to illustrate
ethical issues that will be addressed by the program panel.
Continuing Education Credits will be available. More information will be available at a later time.
Transformation Through Rhythm
A Benefit Concert to support Music Therapy at: Knysna Hospice
of South Africa & DeKalb County Hospice
Monday, March 26
7 p.m, DeKalb High School
Hosted by: DeKalb High School Rhythm Ensemble
Northern Illinois University Percussion Studio and World Music
DeKalb County Hospice
Our "sister"
hospice, Knysna Hospice in Knysna South Africa, has begun a new initiative
called "Transformation Through Rhythm." It is a newly developed program for children
ages 13-17 whose parents were in hospice care (many now orphans from AIDS). They
offer therapeutic drumming circles to help these kids deal with their loss and also
the harshness around them (many live in extremely impoverished conditions). They
do not have drums or supplies to make the drums and are seeking funds for this.
This event is sponsored in part by WNIU/WNIJ.
Learning about this newest project inspired us to see if we could raise funds to
assist them. We are delighted to report that DeKalb High School Rhythm Ensemble
in conjunction with Northern Illinois University Percussion Studio and World Music
and DeKalb County Hospice will be sponsoring an event at DeKalb High School in late
March or early April, 2012. Admission will be free of charge with donations solicited
to support the drumming initiative at Knysna Hospice, as well as music therapy at
DeKalb County Hospice (which is largely funded through grants and donations).
The added "benefits" of this benefit are multiple, including bringing diverse groups of people from our community together through music, giving our young adults an opportunity to be of service by sharing their talents, and providing all of us an opportunity to think both locally and globally. Please join us!
For more information about the Transformation Through Rhythm concert, call DeKalb County Hospice at 815.756.3000.
"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?" ~Michael Jackson
Support Groups
DeKalb County Hospice offers many bereavement support groups for all ages throughout the year in various locations including Sandwich and DeKalb.
