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Community Engagement

We’re in communities like yours advocating and empowering each other about end-of-life care, planning and options.

What We Do

We lead efforts to improve end-of-life care from the ground up: we teach workshops, give presentations, hold virtual and in-person events, create culturally competent materials and more.

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LGBTQ+ people can face unique challenges in the healthcare system, including at the end of life. This Pride Month, take charge of your healthcare! Check out our LGBTQ+ Advance Care Planning Toolkit, developed with SAGE, to begin planning for your future care and end-of-life journey.

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African American Community & Black Community

Disability Outreach

Our Resources

The Dementia Values and Priorities Tool is designed to help you communicate your wishes regarding future care if you are living with dementia. After answering a series of questions related to the changes commonly seen in the progression of dementia, the tool will provide you with a document that can be added to your existing advance directive and shared with others. The interactive online tool is available in English and Spanish, printable version are available in multiple language

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The guide will help you think through your priorities for end-of-life care, complete an advance directive and other forms you may need, choose a representative to speak for you if you cannot, and consider common end-of-life medical interventions so you can specify what you want or don’t want — right up to the end. 

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Videos

We have an extensive video library of our storytellers and supporters.

2024 REACH Las Vegas
Thomas Reed Jackson - Part 1 - Legacy
What Is Advance Care Planning? Tools, Resources and Conversation Needed
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Webinars

We hold virtual events and webinars to encourage end-of-life care and planning conversations. 

National Summer Arts & Culture Series: Finale (ft. Suzanna Tiapula)
End-of-Life Advocacy Changemakers: Why We Volunteer with Compassion & Choices
How to Effectively Engage Faith Communities
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Leadership Councils

Compassion & Choices is proud to have multiple leadership councils composed of volunteer leaders from medicine, community advocacy, law and other areas of interest.

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Compassion & Choices is proud to offer a host of tools and resources to help you and your loved ones “finish strong” by planning for an end-of-life experience that matches the life you’ve enjoyed – defined by love, purpose and agency.

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Motivated by the impact of racism, inequity and disparities in end-of-life care, we are connecting with people nationwide to spread the word about the importance of end-of-life care planning and accessing quality end-of-life care.

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Latest News

Compassion & Choices Action Network Rebuts Federal Lawsuit by Disability Rights Groups Seeking to Invalidate CA Medical Aid-in-Dying Law
March 12, 2024

Compassion & Choices Action Network strongly challenges the arguments of several disability groups and two people with disabilities who filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in the Central District of California against California officials challenging the End of Life Option Act. The plaintiffs claim that the recently updated California medical–aid-in-dying law, which took effect in 2022, discriminates against people with disabilities by violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the U.S. Constitution’s due process and equal protection clauses in the 14th Amendment.

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating Our Voices
September 20, 2023

As we mark Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 through Oct. 15), we reflect on the importance of the physician-patient relationship in creating meaningful conversations about health care throughout our lives, including at the end of life In this video, Dr. Carlos Hernandez-Torres, a Hospice & Palliative Medicine specialist in New York, and member of the…

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Question 1 of 14

Your information entered here will be included on the final copy of your Dementia Advance Directive (addendum).

Name
Birth Date
Paso 1 de 14

Yo estoy completando este documento porque quiero que mi(s) persona designada (s) en la toma de decisiones, médicos y equipo de atención médica, familia, cuidadores y seres queridos conozcan mis deseos respecto al tipo de cuidados que deseo si vivo con demencia.

Nombre
Fecha de nacimiento
Question 1 of 14

Your information entered here will be included on the final copy of your Dementia Advance Directive (addendum).

Name
Birth Date