Pacific Institute Europe (2001)
The non-profit sister organization of Pacific Institute, Pacific Institute Europe is based in Warsaw, Poland. Its goals are (1) facilitating communication between mainstream culture and marginalized groups and tendencies, (2) supporting the elderly, especially those of lower social-economic status, and (3) discovering ways of caring for the whole community while developing the attitudes and skills of Elders.
Visit the Pacific Institute Europe's web site at www.pacificinstitute-europe.org.

San Francisco Department of Public Health
The mission of the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) is to protect and promote the health of all San Franciscans. To fulfill that mission, the SFDPH assesses and researches the health of the community, develops and enforces public health policies, and establishes programs to prevent disease and injury. In addition, the organization also educates the public, trains health care providers, and promotes equal access to health care by all citizens. A long term supporter of Pacific Institute programs and services, the SFDPH contracts specialized programs for individuals in need of supportive services and/or psychiatric, or gero-psychiatric services and housing through the Institutes' residential care facilities for the elder and lately through the support to implement the Awakenings program for chronically ill individuals in need of supportive services.
Visit the San Francisco Department of Public Health's web site at www.sfdph.org/dph.

Institute on Aging (IOA)
One of Pacific Institute collaborators, IOA had its origins over thirty years ago in the pioneering geriatrics program of San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital, which first called attention to the needs of seniors in the community. Early innovations were adult day health care and home-care services--alternatives to placement in a nursing home, where the older adult was essentially removed from family, friends, familiar surroundings, and favorite activities. New services were designed to enable older adults to continue living in their own homes, with their famlies, rather than being relegated to institutional care. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2005, Institute on Aging (IOA) is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that touches the lives of thousands of seniors in San Francisco, Marin, and the Peninsula each year. IOA join efforts with Pacific Institute through their educational and internship programs educating clinicians in the mental health field to assure the best quality of services for older adults.
Visit the Institute's web site at www.gioa.org.

Existential-Humanistic Institute (EHI), (1997)
Developed as a program within Pacific Institute, the Existential-Humanistic Institute is now a training center in existential-humanistic theory and practice established to provide an alternative, a home, to those health and mental health professionals and scholars who long to investigate life's deepest dilemmas. The Existential-Humanistic Institute stresses an interdisciplinary vision to inquire into the meaning and nature of human life and offers public programs on a variety of existential-humanistic themes.
Visit the Existential-Humanistic Institute's web site at www.ehinstitute.org.

Zen Hospice Project in collaboration with AgeSong Senior Communities
A new model of residential care to face our living and dying with compassion, wisdom, and grace. Inspired by a 2,500 year old Buddhist tradition, Zen Hospice Project (ZHP) is a fusion of spiritual insight and practical social action. Begun in 1987, ZHP is now nationally recognized as an innovative model in movement to improve end-of life care. The Zen Hospice Project (ZHP) operates on a model that transcends "charity work," by encouraging and supporting a mutually beneficial relationship between volunteer caregivers and people who are dying. Since Summer 2005, Zen Hospice have joined efforts with Pacific Institute and AgeSong Senior Communities to start providing hospice services at Hayes Valley Care and Laguna Grove Care and supporting residents with a life expectancy of six months or less.
In caring for the dying, volunteers and Pacific Institute interns have the opportunity to look at their own relationship to death. In turn, members of ZHP's volunteer community offer residents a quiet place of grace and dignity, often unparalleled in their lives. Cross training for volunteers, staff, and Pacific Institute students are part of the collaboration.
Visit the Zen Hospice Project at www.zenhospice.org