What Gives Your Life Meaning? is an annual educational program held on the CSUSM campus to raise awareness of Palliative Care and promote advance healthcare planning among the members of our campus community. WGYLM®? combines discussion panels, film presentations, lectures, a campus resource fair, and the mysterious appearance of lawn signage inspiring one and all to ask: What Gives Your Life Meaning?, and Who Needs to Know About It? These questions are fundamental to understanding, planning and documenting our preferences for future health care needs, and we want to promote these goals.
89.2% of college students and 74% of American adults haven’t documented their health care choices or communicated them to those they love. We are working to change that. Our campaign helps students, staff and faculty consider the importance of these issues, and provides opportunities and resources for all who want to take action in their own lives. Programs are geared to helping students feel comfortable with talking about what they would want in a medical situation if they weren’t able to speak for themselves, and it provides encouragement and tools to discuss these issues with family members and those for whom they are (or will be) caregivers.
Help us continue to grow and change the lives of those in our community.
We are the CSU Shiley Institute for Palliative Care at CSUSM. We educate future professionals and the community about Palliative Care, advance healthcare planning, and the needs of caregivers and families supporting loved ones with serious, chronic illness. We provide educational programs on campus and across our region. Your support will increase our impact, enrich our program of events, and extend our educational reach. Thanks for your contribution!