124 Monterey County GIVES! 2023 mcgives.com Health, Wellness & Food DONate online mcgives.com “There are no words to express my extreme gratitude for your helping hand. Thank you only begins to cover it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.” -Natalie Defiebre Healing Partners of the Central Coast Year Founded: 2019 Paid Staff and Volunteers: 9 paid, 26 volunteers Budget: $147,737 (800) 205-8101 hpcchealingtouch.org Big Idea: Healing Partners of the Central Coast (HPCC) uses unique, personalized care to support cancer patients and their caregivers. Their Big Idea uses Healing Touch, an evidence-based integrative therapy utilized in major cancer centers across the U.S. This nonprofit extends eight free Healing Touch therapy sessions, designed to address specific side effects of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Donations to HPCC help bring the powerful benefits of Healing Touch to cancer inpatients, with more than 7,000 sessions completed so far. “The patients on chemo who participate in HPCC’s Healing Touch program consistently have less side effects and better coping skills, thanks to these energy healers. Through my patients and my own personal experience with Healing Touch, I know how fortunate we are to have such an amazing, free program here.” -Dr. Nancy Rubin, oncologist at Pacific Cancer Care Hospice Giving Foundation Year Founded: 1997 Paid Staff and Volunteers: 7 paid, 61 volunteers Budget: $1,521,900 333-9023 hospicegiving.org Big Idea: We are our most vulnerable selves at birth and at death, reliant on others for compassion and tenderness, as Hospice Giving Foundation reminds us. The group’s Big Idea invests in spiritual care, a largely nondenominational approach at endof-life, to guide, listen, and hold space for distress. Regardless of a patient’s religious traditions during their life, this nonprofit’s spiritual care provides restorative healing and a dignified transition for patients and the people who care for them as they face life’s biggest challenges. “Spiritual care encompasses the parts of our lives that make us uniquely who we are. All people have beliefs and values that give life meaning and purpose. In times of medical crisis, our perceptions of ourselves and what it means to have a good quality of life can drastically shift. Hospice patients and their loved ones benefit from a trained clinical chaplain who can companion them through the big questions, the uncertainties, and the mysteries of life and death. When clinical chaplains recognize emotional pain and unresolved business prior to death, an evidence-based spiritual care plan will provide supportive measures to soothe spiritual and emotional distress. Clinical chaplains can ease the existential dread and grief often experienced as death approaches. Spiritual care is simply good medicine that helps patients and families find peace, acceptance and comfort in illness and at end of life.” -Rev. Robin Wells Jerry Rubin Foundation Year Founded: 2021 Paid Staff and Volunteers: 1 paid, 7 volunteers Budget: $150,000 642-4041 jerryrubinfoundationforcancercare. org Big Idea: Transportation vouchers, grocery vouchers and rent payments are a few examples of the support provided to cancer patients from the Jerry Rubin Foundation. This young foundation provides widespread assistance to those battling cancer and Spiritual care is simply good medicine.” Rev. Robin Wells, Hospice Giving Foundation The Parenting Connection of Monterey County Year Founded: 2014 Paid Staff and Volunteers: 4 paid, 0 volunteers Budget: $363,000 647-3333 parentingconnectionmc.org Big Idea: Becoming a parent is a transformational experience, filled with challenges and decisions that are impossible to predict. The Parenting Connection of Monterey County steps up to help with its Big Idea. This nonprofit provides free, easily accessible and culturally aware maternal mental health programming to expecting moms and caregivers of young children, investing in health of the next generation by supporting their parents. The Parenting Connection serves the most vulnerable communities in Salinas and South Monterey County and seeks support to expand its programs for pregnant people, new parents and young children. “The [Parenting Connection] staff is kind and understanding. I’ve had a positive experience with the Parenting Connection Circle. I find it insightful to share ideas with other parents and learn strategies to be the best person/parent I can be in my own way. I also am able to receive lactation advice, self-care ideas and, overall, it’s an enjoyable experience. Talking to someone about my motherhood journey was something new to me, and I want to thank Jaimee and Bianca for being understanding and offering tools for me to be a better and happier mom.” -Isaura Garcia spotlight
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