Exciting Announcement
How we found our Center
Brattleboro Area Hospice is a beloved community resource that has provided solace to our neighbors, friends, and family as they experience illness, death, and grieving. We are the helpers, the hands, the listeners, and the quiet witnesses.
Since 1979, our organization has stayed true to a tradition that is as old as humanity itself. As we now expand our compassionate and quiet activism to helping individuals who have received a life-changing diagnosis with our new Serious Illness Program, it feels like our name no longer encompasses all we do.
We’re very excited to share that we’ve come to a name that we believe invites connection, opens conversation, feels engaging, honors both the sacred and the practical, and is boldly human: Center for Solace.
The word Center reflects the gravitas of our work. We are a well-run, well-trained organization that has survived the closure of so many other volunteer hospices around the country. We are thriving and this name feels rich in stability. In addition, there is a center to all of our work; we help people find their center as they navigate challenging times in their lives.
Solace is a word that describes the foundation of what we are offering. Through all the volunteer hours, through all the grief counseling, through all our advance care planning work, the golden thread is solace: providing comfort and consolation in a time of distress or sadness. This word is positive and compassionate, as are we. We are excited about this name and about the identity that will grow around it and through it. Center for Solace is who we are and what we provide.
We’ve chosen a tagline to accompany the name: illness, hospice, grief. This clarifies the nature of our work and reflect our continued commitment to hospice, the heart of our founding in 1979. Hospice remains at the heart of what we do.
Center for Solace is who we are and what we provide. The name was just waiting for us to find it.
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Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about our new name. Remember, our name is changing, but our programs are not.