ALS Association provides education, advocacy and information about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). Whether you’re newly diagnosed, navigating your journey with the disease, caring for a person with ALS, or researching the cure, there are resources to support you.

The Academy provides a Patient-to-Doctor Referral System; an Information Update and Discussion Listserv; a series of Video Interviews with leaders in the field discussing pressing issues and concerns; a Patient Information Portal; Research and Data Analysis; Resident and Medical Student Trainings; Certified Online Continuing Medical Education for Nurses, Social Workers, and Physicians.

Established in 1986, CHAPCA is headquartered in Sacramento, CA. CHAPCA is governed by the Board of Directors,whose members are responsible for setting the policy of the association.

CAN offers caregiving tips and on-line resources including a support network and resource guides and is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life for the more than 90 million Americans who care for loved ones with chronic conditions, disabilities, disease, or the frailties of old age.

Dedicated to building a community in which Chinese Americans are able to face end of life with dignity and respect. CACCC provides compassionate care, community service, education and outreach to Chinese Americans and to the healthcare professionals who serve them. They work to empower Chinese Americans by improving access to end of life resources: producing original Chinese language materials or translating existing materials into Chinese and providing referrals to appropriate agencies.

The Administration for Community Living, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, brings together the efforts and achievements of the Administration on Aging, the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the HHS Office on Disability to serve as the Federal agency responsible for increasing access to community supports, while focusing attention and resources on the unique needs of older Americans and people with disabilities across the lifespan.

The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) promotes high-quality, compassionate care for everyone who is seriously ill or nearing the end of life.

Compassion & Choices is a national advocacy organization that played a pivotal role in helping to get the California End of Life Option Act passed in 2015. Their strategic plan includes helping to get Right-to-Die laws passed in other states with the intention that by 2028, half the U.S. population will live in a location where medical aid in dying is an open and accessible medical practice.

The mission of the Death with Dignity National Center is to promote death with dignity laws based on our model legislation, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, both to provide an option for dying individuals and to stimulate nationwide improvements in end-of-life care.

The mission of FEN is to educate qualified individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives, offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend their right to choose. Their vision is that any competent person unbearably suffering an intractable medical condition has the option to die legally and peacefully.

The Hemlock Society of San Diego is a 32 year old 501 (c)(3), not-for-profit, volunteer, educational organization. Our mission is to provide education to the San Diego community about all end of life choices. We believe that people should be able to die consistent with their own beliefs and values and with proper, current information.

Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time ​yet to come.​

The Conversation Project is a public engagement initiative with a goal that is both simple and transformative: to have every person’s wishes for end-of-life care expressed and respected.

A gentle exploration of the process of Advance Care Planning.

This group aims to share information about VSED so that individuals who might not qualify for medical aid in dying can make informed choices and plans. VSED might not be for everyone, but it is the only chance for some to experience an end to unbearable suffering. Done correctly, with proper medical preparation and assistance, VSED offers a natural end to life. Their website contains a wealth of information for those interested in learning more about VSED no matter where you live.

Disseminates current information and educational materials about self-determined end of suffering and life, as well as other end of life issues to interested groups, scholars and individuals on request