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TASK FORCES
Project work has been parceled among five task forces to address key issues in the development of a comprehensive, advance care planning program. A graphical flowchart can be found here.

  • Service Model and Outcomes Task Force
    The Service Model and Outcomes Task Force is responsible for identifying measurable outcomes, identifying a service model, ensuring a uniform and consistent message and focus of model, design of pilot projects and data collection.


  • Education Task Force
    The Education Task Force is responsible for education about the model (for healthcare professionals and institutions) and about the ACP conversations (for public), adapting educational materials to different audiences, identifying and training facilitators (e.g. volunteers, healthcare professionals, clergy, retirees).


  • Outreach Task Force
    Identify, prioritize and recommend audiences for pilot programs based on criteria for success; develop plan to strategically expand program beyond pilot; research best approach to each community; recommend strategies to engage audiences (including policymakers and healthcare providers in addition to public) such as city-wide agencies, partnerships, neighborhood groups, consortia, faith communities, senior centers, community clinics, etc.


  • Policy Change Task Force
    The Policy Change Task Force is responsible for surveying institutional policies that affect advance care planning, initiating institutional and systems change (e.g. document storage and retrieval system), addressing legal issues and documents to provide ease of use in all institutions, accessing and transportability of information.


  • Quality Improvement Task Force
    The Quality Improvement Task Force addresses ongoing quality improvement and measurement.






For more information on the Someone to Trust Advance Care Planning Initiative, contact Karen Long, MA, Program Director
at 312-636-9261 or
someonetotrust@iomc.org.