Adventures in Caring Foundation

Undergraduate students come to Adventures in Caring (AiC) eager to learn how to make the human connection with patients that is so vital to healing. It’s something that is rarely taught any university or hospital and yet it is essential to a successful career in health care.

With in-depth training, first-hand experience, and coaching for a year or more, AiC develops in young people the core skills to convey compassion and build healing partnerships.

It is a win-win program. In the process of developing these skills the students bring hope, joy and comfort into the lives of the sick, injured, and dying. They evoke greater lucidity in Alzheimer’s patients, reduce agitation in Parkinson’s patients, and reverse failure to thrive in those who are socially isolated. This year we expect 100 students to participate.

After one or more years of service these young people graduate and go on to medical or graduate school. They are accepted at higher than usual rates due to their experience, skills, and emotional maturity. They become doctors, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and physicians’ assistants—the backbone of our health care system, and then become the teachers and leaders of it. For thirty years Adventures in Caring has been transforming health care this way—one student at a time.

Your support makes it possible to continue this work of teaching and dispensing the medicine of compassion.

—Simon Fox, Executive Director