Decide to Be Heard:
It’s About the Conversation
Decide to be Heard works to ensure all healthy adults have access to trained facilitators to help them complete advance directives and have critical conversations with their healthcare agent and loved ones. The power of this program is not only in completing important documentation, but in helping individuals explore their personal goals, values, and beliefs and encourages each person to choose and engage their health care agent.
Facilitated conversations help people complete advance directives that are inclusive of personal values and beliefs and allow each person to communicate documented values and beliefs to their family, loved ones, and health care providers. These conversations are a gift you give yourself and your loved ones.
A Decide to Be Heard trained facilitator can also help the individual complete the Ohio Healthcare Power of Attorney, provide guidance for easy storage and retrieval, and opportunities to update the legal document as a person’s life changes.
Thank you to our lead partners for supporting this important work!
How to Get Started
Advance care planning is making decisions about the healthcare you would want to receive if you become unable to speak for yourself. The decisions are yours to make, regardless of what you choose for your care, and are based on your personal values, preferences, and discussions with your loved ones.
Want to be a facilitator? Decide To Be Heard also has instructors trained in teaching Facilitator Certification courses. This training offers facilitators education, resources and support in having these important conversations with patients, families and community members. Email Lisa Henderson at lhenderson@gdaha.org for more information.
Additional Resources
Check out these national programs for additional resources and ideas on how to start the conversation.
