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Compassion & Choices National
As a national organization with over 60 chapters and 30,000 members, Compassion & Choices National aggressively pursues legal reform to promote pain care, advocate patient rights, and to legalize physician aid-in-dying.
Compassion & Choices
PO Box 101810, Denver, CO 80250-1810
1.800.247.7421 toll-free
www.compassionandchoices.org
info@compassionandchoices.org
People's Memorial Association
Helps individuals plan funeral arrangements that are dignified and affordable. With a onetime fee of $25, members receive information about cremation and burial and discounted fees for cremation/funeral arrangements at contracting mortuaries.
People's Memorial Association
155 NE 100th St, Suite 307
Seattle WA 98125-8014
206.325.0489
1.866.325.0489 toll-free
www.peoplesmemorial.org
pmainfo@peoplesmemorial.org
Jinny Tesik, MA
Grief & Life Transitions Counseling
As a nationally certified counselor, founder of Grief & Life Transitions, and the co-founder of the Western Washington Bereavement Network, Jinny Tesik, MA, specializes in working with people who have experienced the sudden death of their loved ones as in suicide, accidents, homicide, or sudden natural illnesses as well as patients and families who are experiencing chronic or catastrophic illnesses. Jinny has also worked with many families whose loved ones have chosen Death With Dignity. As affiliates of the Western Washington Bereavement Network, Grief & Life Transitions Counseling maintains connections and makes referrals to grief support counselors and groups throughout the Washington area.
Jinny Tesik, MA
20042 19th Avenue NE, Lower Level
Shoreline, WA 98155
206.362.9094
www.griefandlifetransitions.com
jtesik@comcast.net
Carin Mack, MSW, ACSW
Greenwood Senior Center
Geriatric social worker, Carin Mack, MSW, ACSW, leads a variety of free support groups and provides individual counseling at the Greenwood Community Center. Her support groups for caregivers include those who provide care for people with Alzheimer's/dementia, Parkinson's, early stage memory loss, chronic illness/disability, and mental illness. Carin also leads support groups for people with early stage memory loss, Parkinson's, and movement disorders such as Multiple Systems Atrophy and Corticobasal Degeneration. For individual counseling or to participate in any of the groups she leads, please call 206.230.0166.
Carin Mack, MSW, ACSW
Greenwood Senior Center
525 N. 85th St.
Seattle, WA 98103
206.230.0166
http://www.greenwoodseniorcenter.org/SupportGroups.htm
socialwkr@earthlink.net
Take Back Your Meds
Works to establish a statewide, permanent medicine take-back program to reduce access to highly-addictive drugs, reduce the risk of poisonings, and reduce environmental contamination. The group has compiled a list of temporary drop-off locations where unwanted medicines can be collected until a permanent statewide program is established. Find a temporary drop-off location near you at http://www.takebackyourmeds.org/what-you-can-do/locations.
Take Back Your Meds
http://www.takebackyourmeds.org/what-you-can-do/locations
info@takebackyourmeds.org