Below are just some of the developments of Deanna’s work.
2025. CareDoula® Membership officially launched. CareDoula® Membership solves the problem of the person lost on the internet trying to figure out how to serve people during the dying time (often wanting to serve in this new role of end-of-life doula as well). Review Here.
2024. CareDoula® Education. New official website, resource center and homebase for families and end-of-life advocates.
2023. Deanna focused the entire year solely on mentoring end-of-life practitioners and caregiving her father. He died December 11, 2023.
RESPECT Graduate Chaplaincy Program, CPE. 2022. CareDoula Certificate Program chosen as RESPECT’s End-of-Life Education. 1st End-of-Life Doula Program in an international Graduate School Program for Chaplains.
Deanna’s Book, ‘Accompanying the Dying,’ Published in Spanish, 2022. “Acompañando a los moribundos: Sabiduría práctica desde el corazón para doulas del fin de vida y defensores en el sector salud.”
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 2018: End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council, First Chair (April 2018 until December 2020).
Published first End-of-Life Doula & Healthcare Advocacy book, “Accompanying the Dying: Practical, Heart-centered Wisdom for End-of-Life Doulas and Healthcare Advocates,” February 2019. #1 Bestseller in 3 Categories, Aging, Death & Grief, and New Books.
Advisory Council, Elizabeth Kubler Ross Foundation, Mexico Centro, San Miguel de Allende, 2019.
Neighbor to Neighbor, 2019. Community CareDoula® Program. Free Foundation Level training for caregivers, volunteers, and healthcare professionals.
National Professional End-of-Life Doula Conference, New York City, 2018. World class Doula Healthcare focused event. Co-organizer of event.
International Death Doula Conference Teaching Team, since 2017 with Doorway Into Light, Hawaii’s only nonprofit funeral home founded by Ram Dass, Rev Bodhi Be, and Leilah Be.
National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, 2017. Founding member and first Vice President.
Corporate Consultant and Doula Program Developer since 2016.
Development of EOL Doula Hospice Programs, 2015. Only corporate package of its kind with innovative solutions for hospices and healthcare organizations to not be left behind in our end-of-life healthcare crisis.
Founder, End-of-Life Practitioners Collective (ELPC), 2014 – 2020. ELPC was the world’s 1st multi-disciplinary community for independent end-of-life practitioners. The main mission of ELPC was to connect families with providers. The secondary mission is to support providers and to role model for each other exceptional care. In 2020, we moved ELPC within Michael Hebb’s project End of Life Collective.
CareDoula® School of Accompanying the Dying, Founded 2010.Premier End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program in the U.S., the first program to include laypeople as well as health care professionals.
Palliative Care Blog, 2006. First End-of-Life Doula and Pre-Hospice Palliative Care Resource Center.
Quality of Life Care, LLC founded 2005 to reduce suffering at the end of life by providing free public education and private training in accompanying the dying and palliative care awareness.
Palliative Consultant & Private Practice End-of-Life Doula since 2005.
RN in end-of-life care within and outside of hospice since 2000.