HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC

Bereavement ServicesBereavement, Anticipatory Bereavement, Mortality Threat and End of Life Counseling Services are offered at Hospice of Santa Barbara for both adults and children. All services are offered freely to all clients.Modalities include individual counseling and relationship-based process groups or activity-based support-groups such as Writing, Poetry, Song, and Art.Adult individual bereavement counseling is limited to 25 months of service for intimate relationships of parent/child (up to age 25 years) and spousal/partner loss toward getting through the 2nd death anniversary and holiday season, whichever comes last assuming our Mission subject remains valid.All other adult bereavement counseling is limited to 13 months of service toward getting through the 1st death anniversary or holiday season, whichever comes last assuming our Mission subject remains valid.There is no service limit for children, adult anticipatory bereavement, or end of life.We have community partner outreach at all six (6) public secondary schools in Santa Barbara and Goleta, Santa Ynez Valley Union High School and the entire Carpinteria Unified School District each school is assigned a counselor for weekly therapy sessions on their campus.Additional Community partners include support groups for the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation and most recently Partners for Kids, an interagency and interdisciplinary pediatric concurrent model of care lead by Visiting Nurse Association Health (VNA Health) and Cottage Health System.We also have a satellite office in Carpinteria.All services are conducted by CA Board of Behavioral Sciences Licensed, Associate, or Trainee clinical staff currently we have twenty- three (23) available clinicians.Many of our clients are with co-morbid mental health conditions and primary attachment injuries that become activated with our Mission subject we work broadly with our clients within scope of practice, given clinical preparation/training, clinical supervision and available clinical consultation.The goal of our work is to help the clients resolve their subjective distress associated with our Mission subject expressed as acceptance, integration, or resolved enough to adaptively move forward without further counseling assistance.DURING 2024 HSB SERVED 824 NEW BEREAVEMENT CLIENTS; OF WHICH, 602 WERE ADULTS AND 222 WERE CHILDREN. HSB CONDUCTED 7,444 SESSIONS; OF WHICH, 5,934 WERE ADULTS AND 1,510 WERE CHILDREN.

Patient Care ServicesHSB'S PATIENT CARE SERVICES TEAM OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORKERS, CARE COORDINATORS, SPIRITUAL CARE COUNSELOR, AND VOLUNTEERS STRIVE TO ENSURE CLIENTS RECEIVE PRECISELY THE EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT THEY NEED. INDIVIDUALIZED CARE COORDINATION FOR CLIENTS CAN BEGIN WITH THE DIAGNOSIS OF AN ILLNESS AND EXTEND INTO SURVIVORSHIP OR END OF LIFE BEREAVEMENT.PATIENT CARE SERVICES CONTINUES TO PROVIDE UP TO FOUR LEVELS OF CAREUNDER THE "CONTINUUM OF CARE" ESTABLISHED IN THE SPRING OF 2014: CAREMANAGEMENT (FOR THE NEWLY DIAGNOSED PATIENT WHO MAY RECOVER FROM THEIR ILLNESS); Palliative Care Management (for those in treatment but not expected to recover); ANTICIPATORY GRIEF (FOR THE LOVED ONES AND/OR CAREGIVERS OF A PATIENT LIVING WITH LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS); AND BEREAVEMENT CAREMANAGEMENT (FOR THE SURVIVING LOVED ONE AFTER THE DEATH OF A PATIENT).OUR 109 ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS PROVIDED AN ANNUAL TOTAL OF 3,385 HOURSVOLUNTEERED TO OUR COMMUNITY. PATIENT CARE VOLUNTEERS OFFERED RESPITETO CAREGIVERS AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERSWITH THOUGHTFUL COMPANIONSHIP, RESPITE CARE, HELP WITH HOUSEHOLD CHORES AND ERRANDS, AND ASSISTING WITH TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS. NO ONE DIES ALONE (NODA) VOLUNTEERS PROVIDE A REASSURING PRESENCE TO ACTIVELY DYING PATIENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY LIVING IN NURSING HOMES WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE ALONE. NODA VOLUNTEERS PROVIDE PATIENTS WITH THAT MOST VALUABLE OF HUMAN GIFTS: A DIGNIFIED DEATH. IN 2024, HSB CONTINUED COLLABORATIONS WITH VARIOUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO DELIVER CRATES OF FRESH FOOD MEALS FOR FOOD INSECURE PATIENTS & FAMILIES AND LOW-INCOME SENIORS. HSB ALSO ESTABLISHED AN MOU WITH STARFISH CONNECTION, PROVIDING IN-KIND QUALITY OF LIFE GRANTS (UP TO $1,500) TO EASE THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF THOSE LIVING WITH ILLNESS.