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April 2021
Engaging Communities in Faith-Based Models of Care
Faith leaders and clergy play a complex and significant role in their communities, offering comfort, guidance and leadership to congregants, and connecting people to valuable health-related resources and information. Throughout the pandemic, faith leaders have helped people to navigate a myriad of spiritual, emotional, and logistical challenges. The emergence of COVID-19 has underscored the nation’s failure to adequately address the social factors that influence health within the African-American community, which is consistently over-represented in the prevalence and mortality data associated…
Find out more »AMSA Activism Update – Advance Care Planning: Current State and Future Potential
Join us at the American Medical Student Association's (AMSA) next Activism Update on Wednesday, April 28 at 5pm ET, co-hosted by AMSA’s Health Policy Action Committee, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care, and Respecting Choices, for a discussion about Advance Care Planning: Current State and Future Potential. Our Health Policy Chair, Courtnie Moodie, will lead our conversation with Dr. Carole Montgomery about the reality of advance care planning and what future physicians can do to prepare themselves for these important conversations.…
Find out more »Trends Transforming Advanced Illness Care: The Promise of Technology
COVID and other dynamic forces are upending traditional ways of caring for people with serious and advanced illness. People want care in their home and community, not isolated in institutions. Technology, such as telehealth, has potential to accelerate community care, but will the digital divide impede access? Join us on April 29, to hear from three experts active in care for those in the late stages of life: an innovative community provider; a VC funder who invests in the advanced…
Find out more »May 2021
C-TAC Policy Forum 2021
The C-TAC Policy Forum offers changemakers an insider-view of federal serious illness care policies that they can leverage to drive change in their communities. By holding the event virtually and free of charge, C-TAC draws diverse attendees across industries with a wealth of insight into the issues facing people with serious illness. C-TAC hosts the Policy Forum, not only to serve as a progress report on the state of serious illness care policy, but to be a proving ground where…
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