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Hospice and Palliative Care Council of Vermont 10 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 802-229-0579 Email:  director@hpccv.org (pages best viewed using Microsoft Explorer) Hospice and Palliative Care Council of Vermont is committed to assuring access to high quality palliative and end-of-life care including caregiver support and bereavement services for all Vermonters. Virginia Fry, MA,  Director and Newsletter Editor Virginia Fry interviewed for an article in the November 11, 2010 New York Times: "A Final Cocoon: Dying at Home” HPCCV is a member of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization Please visit: "Vermont Palliative and End-of-Life Care Resource Connections” (vtpcrc.org) Vermont's first website designed specifically for people facing life-threatening illnesses. Sponsored by the Madison Deane Initiative of the VNA & Hospice of Chittenden & Grand Isle." ARTICLES: HPCCV creates Hospice Partnership with rural Palliative Care Program in Tanzania. (click here for article) Updated 9/25/2008. 2009 HPCCV Directors Report by Virgina Fry 2010 HPCCV Directors Report by Virgina Fry 2008 Legislative Report: October 27, 2008 by Diana Pierce * * * * * * * * * * * * 2011 Meeting Dates: Wednesday June 8, 2011 Volunteer Coordinators 11-1pm, Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT.  Bereavement Coordinators meet 1:30-4:30pm.      Quarterly HPCCV Board Meeting 5-7pm, then dinner with Speakers. Thursday, June 9, 2011 HPCCV 20th Annual Conference 7:30-4:30pm, at      Lake Morey Resort, Fairlee, VT. The 2011 conference starts June 9, 2011. Hope you can join us. Our 2011 Conference Brochure is available here. HPCCV 20^th Annual Conference Speech by Virginia Fry (Here is an article about the 2009 conference.) And also from the 2009 conference.... At the 2009 Lake Morey Conference, workshop participants of "Using Music to Renew Our Caregiver Spirits" created a very rough draft of a poem after listening to a piece of piano music, played by Islene Runningdeer, Music Therapist at CVHHH.  We then vocally recited the various phrases, words and sentences representing the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual impressions we jotted down while listening.  Islene collected all the paper notes and, a few weeks later, extracted all the key words from this raw material and intuitively allowed this poem to emerge. Go down to the bass notes and listen to the tinkling of your skin. What would it cost you to let the white moonlight fall on your long life? The smiling loon understands your sleepy nature, how you get lost in the ebb of each magnetic evening. Walking slowly to another beginning, you touch the new baby, featherweight. You both are babbling in tongues. Can you see yourself weaving and dancing toward your funeral boat, while a soft rain whispers, over and over, "I have loved you all my life"? Let it whisk you away and release you to Home. Thank you all for such a lovely and powerful collective creation! * * * * * * * * * * * * Virginia Fry’s visit to Germany Lazarus Hospiz, Bernauer Str., Mitte English Version German Version * * * * * * * * * * * * * Other News and Information: Middlebury Hospice Volunteer Services has provided links to the last 2 programs in their 6-month End of Life Care series. (Feb): http://www.middleburycommunitytv.org/video/StephenKiernan020911.mp4 (Mar): http://www.middleburycommunitytv.org/video/EndofLifeCompassionateCare030911.mp4 Flier Info on future programs in the series available here as a PDF Transforming Loss into Hope – conference brochure For Legislative News and Updates go to www.VNAVT.org. The Sudden Infant & Child Mourning Outreach Network www.SimonProject.org NHPCO "New Research Finds Patients Do Live Longer Under Hospice Care" For this and other National Hospice & Palliative Care News and Information go to www.nhpco.org For more information on Palliative Care go to www.getpalliativecare.org. For more information about Home Care in Vermont go to www.vnavt.com. * * * * * * * * * * * * * HPCCV donates copies of the award-winning book Part of Me Died Too, by Virginia Fry, to bereaved families attending the annual Camp Knock Knock, sponsored by the VNA & Hospice of Chittenden & Grand Isle.  HPCCV is also the recipient of a portion of the profits from sales of this book.  Copies are $20 each plus shipping costs and can be ordered by emailing director@hpccv.org. * * * * * * * * * * * * * If you would like to help, you can send your tax deductible contribution to: Hospice and Palliative Care Council of Vermont 10 Main Street Montpelier, VT 05602 Our heartfelt thanks for your generosity. (last updated on June 8, 2011)