HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC

Programs

1. 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…

   $1,436,756 spent
   45% of program spending

2. 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…

   $1,125,375 spent
   35% of program spending

3. Community Education & EngagementHSBs community education program seeks to engage and empower people with information on aging, illness, dying, death, and bereavement. We offer a variety of educational opportunities including, but not limited to: on site workplace presentations, on-site community organization presentations, visiting lectures, workshops, staff/volunteer support training & discussion groups. Over the past three years, we have focused heavily on bringing education and awareness to the community around Advance Care Planning through Get It Done SB! (English initiative) and Mi Regalo (Spanish initiative). Together we have completed over 1000 Advance Directives, partnered with over 70 community organizations, trained over 30 volunteers to help us spread the message, and launched a community wide PR campaign. In 2024 we successfully piloted an embedded strategy with SBNC and County Public Health Neurology Clinic, placing staff and volunteers inside the clinic to better reach an older and sick demographic. We also diversified our medical referral partners to include Santa Barbara Artificial Kidney Center and Cottage Health Sepsis Department. We continue to actively seek new…

   $649,392 spent
   20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,211,523.