About eHope | How it Works

CREATING COMMUNITY

eHope forms each caregiver group around a strong nucleus of face-to-face relationships. eHope facilitators are trained to work directly with families to assist them with assembling a team of proactive caregivers who work together and whose collective value is greater the sum of its individual members.

eHope community building gently guides folks away from pride and self reliance to a culture which focuses on giving and receiving and esteems the collective energy of many.

Initial Face-to-Face

The purpose of the initial face-to-face meeting between an eHope Facilitator and the care recipient and their family is to answer questions regarding the eHope model of care and to build a list of caregivers who will form the nucleus of the caregiver community. eHope has collaborated in the past with local-area churches to locate additional caregivers to augment an existing group.

Group Launch

The group launch meeting is easily the single most important ingredient in forming an effective community of proactive caregivers. The group launch meeting typically involves 15 – 20 individuals.

The purpose of the group launch meeting is to clearly communicate the status and level of anticipated needs for care, and to fully explain the specifics of caring as a team. This meeting also includes a series of team-building exercises which further establishes a sense of community between the members of the group.

Ongoing Community

Regardless of the outcome, eHope communities never quite go away. The caregiving community remains intact for as long as the members remain engaged. eHope care recipients who recover from their illness find that their day-to-day needs may decrease over time, but the sense of community remains indefinitely.

The collective community which has supported a care recipient who has died, continues to provide day-to-day support to the surviving family and to each other during subsequent periods of grief and bereavement.