Basic Organization Information
HEART TOUCH PROJECT
- Also Known As:
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THE HEART TOUCH PROJECT
- Physical Address:
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Santa Monica, CA
90405
- EIN:
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95-4529022
- Web URL:
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www.hearttouch.org
- NTEE Category:
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E Health—General & Rehabilitative
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E21 Community Health Systems
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P Human Services
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P30 Children's and Youth Services
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E Health—General & Rehabilitative
- Year Founded:
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1995
- Ruling Year:
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1995
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Mission Statement
The Heart Touch Project is a non profit educational organization dedicated to the training and delivery of compassionate and healing touch to homebound or hospitalized, men, women and children.
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Chief Executive
Mr Patrick Callahan
Term:
Since
Jan
2007
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Program:
Heart Touch Therapeutic Massage Training Program
- Budget:
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$89,000
- Category:
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Health Care
- Population Served:
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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People With Aids (pwas)
Program Description:
Providing sensitive therapeutic massage therapy to those in need and developing a relationship with those near death is a powerful emotional experience for our volunteer massage therapists. For the past decade, we have conducted quarterly 3-day training sessions to equip volunteers with the skills and knowledge they need for the technical, psychological and ethical demands of working with our target populations. In addition to our general training session, we offer 3-day specialized sessions in Child Massage Training and Infant Massage Training.
Conducted by professional facilitators in the fields of health care, psychology, and massage, these workshops are certified by the California State Board of Nursing to provide continuing education units to nurses and massage therapists. Volunteers are required to successfully complete this training program in order to work with our clients. It is through these workshops that we ensure that we have a cadre of qualified massage therapists to sustain our core operations and our success as a service. The training sessions are continuously evaluated as part of our overall program evaluation
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Heart Touch Hospice Program
- Budget:
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$85,000
- Category:
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Health Care
- Population Served:
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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People With Aids (pwas)
Program Description:
Considered the model of quality end-of-life care, hospice care involves a team-oriented approach that focuses on comfort and compassion, not curing. Towards this end, the Hospice Team develops a care plan that meets each patient’s individual needs for pain management and symptom control. Heart Touch’s professionally trained volunteers, working in coordination with the Hospice Team, provide much-needed comfort and compassionate touch to the hospice patient through therapeutic massage. The core of the program is a twenty-hour training that introduces the practice of mindful, compassionate massage. Graduates are assigned to one of our twelve partner hospice organizations where they volunteer to deliver free massage once a week to their assigned patients.
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The Heart Touch Children’s Program
- Budget:
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$165,000
- Category:
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Health Care
- Population Served:
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Physically Disabled nec
Program Description:
The Children's Program trains and manages bodywork professionals to provide compassionate, caring touch to medically fragile children, ages birth to late teens. A sixteen-hour training deals with the physical, psychological, social and emotional issues facing seriously or terminally ill children. An additional workshop, geared to train parents to massage their infants, is required for volunteers to work with medically fragile newborns.
The Heart Touch Children’s Program is currently in place at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Mattel Children's Hospitalat UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Heart Touch volunteers provide compassionate touch to infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), children in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU), Pediatric Units, a Rehabilitation Department and an outpatient Pain and Palliative Care Clinic. Providing therapeutic massage in these settings is a way for children to gain the benefits of massage and have a positive touch experience during their hospital stay. Heart Touch assigns volunteers to TrinityKids Care, a program devoted exclusively to children in hospice.
Heart Touch also provides education to the physicians,nurses and other medical staff in each of the hospital departments where they provide care.
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Heart Touch International Global Outreach Program
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$75,000
- Category:
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Health Care
- Population Served:
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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People With Aids (pwas)
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Poor/Economically Disadvantaged, Indigent, General
Program Description:
The Heart Touch International Global Outreach Program recruits bodywork professionals who spend two weeks in Southeast Asia or India to provide compassionate touch and massage to orphans, to patients in hospitals and to those impacted by HIV/AIDS. Participants in this program raise money or pay for all the expenses associated with this program.
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