In addition to training students and professionals in various healthcare fields, we are eager to raise the awareness of everyone in the community regarding palliative care and hospice. Our goal is for all families and individuals to understand that they have many choices about how they will spend their final months of life – that they can die with dignity, with their pain and symptoms controlled, in the environment that they choose. And, equally important, that they can receive help and support before, during and after their loved one’s illness.