Listening, Learning

- training for people sentenced to prison themselves to take up roles as Death Navigators for their prison peers

-the training will cover both legal rights and personal needs and wishes 

-this model has been deployed  in the US where there are prison hospices, and has had a profound impact

-  supporting family members and formerly imprisoned people  with lived experience of death and bereavement in prison to train as Death Navigators, and to educate other end-of-life practitioners about this vital work

- adding a prison component to the existing  "Death Doula" trainings to enable them to function as Death Navigators inside and outside prison, equipped to liaise directly with the dying and their loved ones and with prison personnel, invoking legal rights and duties where necessary

-   providing training for prison staff in order to encourage their positive engagement with the Death Navigator role and give them a deeper understanding of the rights and needs of people facing death, dying and bereavement in prison

-providing toolkits to advice groups and lawyers to promote rights enforcement