Partnership with StoryCorps
Spiritual Care Demonstration Projects
During the two-year Archstone Foundation Spiritual Care Demonstration Project, Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care (2010-2012), Archstone Foundation partnered with StoryCorps to integrate the benefits of storytelling into the project. StoryCorps is a national nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
The goal of the Spiritual Care Demonstration Project was to enhance the quality of spiritual care provided by nine hospital palliative care programs in California.
By the end of the project, StoryCorps’ staff worked with four of the nine hospitals, collecting 21 interviews from patients and family members. Five of the collected stories were edited into radio-ready two-to-five-minute clips. The remaining interviews of patients and families were formatted and archived with the Library of Congress.
We invite you to browse the collections from the four sites that hosted StoryCorps-facilitated recordings via the StoryCorps Online Archive.
Listen to the Full-Length StoryCorps Interviews
To listen to these collections (and explore the full archive), create a free account at archive.storycorps.org and log in before navigating to these links:
Recorded and produced by StoryCorps: www.storycorps.org
