Our very first public initiative in 2003 was the establishment of the Death Notification & Stress Management Program in the University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry; the first comprehensive online education, training and treatment program designed to provide a compassionate notification practice and address the needs of both survivors and death notifiers.

Althea provided seed capital and our advisory board acted as the catalysts for establishing the actual program with several world-renowned experts on Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.

Today, the program has been adopted by a variety of organizations throughout the world including the United States Army, the Ministry of Defence and Metropolitan Police Department in the U.K. Practical initiatives developed by the program include:

-- A toll free 24-hour audio training and support protocol phone number.

-- The provision of handmade linen “Compassion Boxes” for the returning of the deceased’s belongings.

-- Translation of the basic procedures into Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German and Farsi.