Zen Hospice Project

 San Francisco     California

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Zen Hospice was founded in 1987 as a program of the San Francisco Zen Center. Social upheaval and times of personal crises provide opportunity for great compassion. The birth of ZHP coincided with the first decade of AIDS, an epidemic of the disenfranchised and dispossessed. ZHP volunteers found that caring for people with AIDS or cancer was, in itself, a kind of spiritual practice.

Our missions are to establish and maintain a program of hospice services, which will collaborate with public and private community organizations in the Bay Area, to mindfully and compassionately serve people approaching death; to train and support volunteers to assist people facing life threatening illness, and their family and friends, in a manner which best meets what they understand to be their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs; to establish and maintain a residential hospice in San Francisco to provide appropriate services for people in the final days of their lives; to provide educational programs with a foundation in Buddhist teachings that foster awareness and compassion in facing death, and whose influence can be felt both locally and globally.

Zen Hospice Project Volunteer Information

The Volunteer Caregiver Program is open to people who can commit to a 5-hour shift per week for one year; attendance at a monthly Tuesday evening community support meetings; and all of the dates of the Volunteer Caregiver Training.