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 Heart Touch™ Story
In 1995, Shawnee Isaac Smith's very good friend and fellow body worker, was dying of a terminal illness - AIDS. All of his friends refused to touch or even visit him. Shawnee began to provide him with weekly massage sessions. Just to be touched, he told her, made him feel human again. Most massage therapists were unwilling to touch people with AIDS for fear of contracting the virus. Shawnee, through massage, found a way to comfort her friend during the greatest struggle of his life.
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Heart Touch™ Mission
The Heart Touch Project is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to the training and delivery of compassionate and healing touch to homebound or hospitalized, men, women and children.
The Heart Touch™ Project is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Bodywork and Massage as a continuing education Approved Provider. We are also approved by the Californa Board of Registered Nursing as a continuing education provider.
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Heart Touch™ Children's Program
When children become ill it is often hard for them to understand that painful procedures are a necessary part of making them better or alleviating their suffering.
Providing massage in hospitals is a way for children to have a positive touch experience during their hospital stay. Currently, Heart Touch™ volunteers are massaging infants and children who are terminally ill and in hospice care. |
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Heart Touch™ Hospice Care Program
Hospice Care is considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care for men, women and children facing a life-limiting illness.
At the center of hospice and palliative care is the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that our families will receive the necessary support to allow us to do so.
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Heart Touch™ International
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