Network with Professionals

Network with Professionals

Network with other palliative care professionals through the Texas Pediatric Palliative Care Consortium. Join the PPC and check this page often for updates on meetings and workshops.

**Please note that Pedi-HOPE 2012 will be held August 10-11, 2012, in Austin, Texas. We hope you will keep these dates open and plan to attend next year's conference.

PEDI-HOPE 2011 - August 12 & 13
Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Essentials: Coordinating Care, Expanding Our Boundaries

Pedi-Hope 2011 brought participants throughout Texas, as well as some out of state participants this year. The 2011 conference was dedicated in memory of Dr. Keith Frazier, a founding member of TPPCC. Attendees earned CNE/CEU credits Click here to see the conference agenda and topics.

Established in 2006, the Texas Pediatric Palliative Care Consortium (TPPCC) is a statewide coalition of interdisciplinary pediatric palliative care providers, advocates, and parent representatives. TPPCC’s mission is to optimize the quality of life for children living with life-threatening conditions (CLWLTC) and their families in Texas, without regard to care setting, family demographics, or financial status. Texas Pediatric Palliative Care Consortium goals include:

Collaboration - Enhance the caregiving capacity of health care providers for CLWLTC throughout Texas by sharing resources and information on the development and delivery of pediatric palliative care services.

Advocacy - Enhance the awareness of health care administrators, state agencies and legislators regarding the need for optimal family-centered pediatric palliative care for CLWLTC in Texas.

Research - Optimize the capacity of families and health care providers to care for CLWLTC by increasing the evidence base for family-centered pediatric palliative care through collaborative research.

Education - Enhance the capacity for the delivery of optimal family-centered and pediatric palliative care through the education of families and health care providers on practices and principles of family-centered and pediatric palliative care.

Support Services – Support the TPPCC Workgroup goals through administrative activities that expand the capacity of the organization.