ACP Statewide Education Project

The Advanced Care Planning (ACP) project involves the work of caring professionals around the state with a commitment to providing information to the community on advance care planning. These materials have been developed to assist presenters in the project.

UPDATED AUGUST, 2010
Summary/Comparison of Advance Directives and Surrogate Health Care Decision Making Processes
Includes 2010 Legislative revisions to living will, proxy by statute, designated Beneficiary, and regulatory updates for CPR directive.

If you are not officially signed up as an ACP Presenter, please review the Invitation below and contact the Center at cochpc@assnoffice.com, to let us know of your interest. Please do not use these materials without officially joining the group, as we are carefully tracking the project and results for our funders and partners. Thank you!

Invitation to join the ACP Project includes background and specifics on what is required of presenters and what support is available from the Center.

Communicating End-of-Life Wishes the main PowerPoint presentation with script for the project. The version available here is a PDF-format preview. To obtain the "live" slides and script, contact the Center at cochpc@assnoffice.com or 303-694-4728.

ACP Project Process details the steps involved in the project.

Presentation Evaluation Form to be completed by attendees of the presentations and collected by the presenter.

Presentation Report Form to be completed by the presenter and returned to the Center with the attendee evaluations.

Follow-up postcard template (MSWord format: side 1 and side 2), to be printed 2-sided onto Avery postcards (#8387 or compatible) for follow-up (see ACP Project Process for details).

Helpful handouts on choosing and being a health care agent, a guide to Colorado advance directives, Q&A on palliative care.

ACP Talking Points clarifications and background information for presenters on advance directives (not for distribution to attendees).