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African Americans and End-of-Life Care Special Report In a special one-hour program, HFA also addressed the specific needs of African Americans in an educational program available to professionals and the general public. Continuing education was also available for this program. Unlike the teleconference, this was a recorded program, and was HFA’s first attempt to produce an educational program in a DVD format only. Like the Diversity and End-of-Life Care teleconference, African Americans and End-of-Life Care had a distinguished panel and was also moderated by Frank Sesno. The program is one hour in length and features experts as well as LaFrance Williams, a woman who shared her experience with hospice, which cared for her husband and family through the last stages of his illness and death. Other panelists included: Tawara D. Goode, MA Wanda Henry-Jenkins, MHS Karla FC Holloway, PhD Richard Payne, MD 009 1/27/2 3:47 PM Page 1 1 ayout 7993:L MARCH BY KENNE TH J. DOKA i g Spirit Restorin JOURNEYS Journeys: A Newsletter to Help with Bereavement, is designed to help individuals cope with the difﬁcult facets of the grieving g process. Edited by Kenneth Doka, Ph.D., MDiv., a Lutheran Minisister and Professor of Gerontology at the College of New Rochelle, le, each issue contains articles by a distinguished panel of experts ts on grief and loss. Journeys is available in individual monthly subscriptions and at a discount for bulk orders for organizations ons to use as a bereavement resource. In FY 2009, HFA also published hed several new special issues: Loss of a Child addresses the death of a h child for survivors; Journeys Spanish/English version and a Chinese/ hinese/ / English version were published to coincide with the 2009 teleconcon onference. ese r face?” Th d ed in your man. r mm ous a door sla y eply religi d him— y lly ed wis, a de re lly ne en you rea y author C. S. 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