Donate to UOAA – Make a real difference – today

The tax-deductible donation you make today, whether for you or in honor of someone else, will go a long way in helping us provide much needed support, education and advocacy services to ostomates nationwide.

In an effort to further the mission of the UOAA, the Management Board of Directors has committed to initiate a number of projects in 2008 and we’re going to need your help.

Here are some of those projects:

• Create a Visitor Training DVD. Since the “Visitor Program” is the backbone of the local Affiliated Support Group, we would like to create a new educational DVD to accompany our recently reissued Visitor Training manual.
• Bring our Ostomy Guidebooks up to date and create four timeless issues of The Phoenix magazine, “content specific” to ostomy type. Our Ostomy Guidebooks haven’t been updated in years and new information and techniques need to be incorporated. The new “magazines” would be included in “New Patient Visitor Packets” and distributed in hospital discharge packets.
• Increase exposure of the UOAA in the Medical Community. We need to contact nurses, hospital discharge planners, homecare agencies and colorectal surgical groups to introduce the UOAA, its affiliated support groups and The Phoenix.
• Partner with the WOCN Society to improve the education of LPNs and RNs about ostomy care for new patients.
• Create a UOAA Ambassador Team to help strengthen the local groups so they can better meet the needs of ostomates and their families.
• Produce a “Nothing I Can’t Do” Video to assist in the education and emotional recovery of new ostomates.
• Convene Advocacy Conferences. These conferences will include workshops on ostomy related legislative issues and how to communicate with elected officials.

There is no question that the services of UOAA are necessary to assist the local support groups and to help improve the health, education and emotional support of people with ostomies, their families and caregivers. The UOAA’s budget is conservative and the needs of the ostomy community are great. Please consider a tax-deductible donation to the UOAA so that we may continue to provide excellent education and support to ostomates across the country.

• Make Your Donation Online

*Donations of $25 or more will be recognized in The Phoenix magazine.

To give a gift in honor or memory of someone, please use the text box on the donation screen to provide us with the appropriate related information (name of honoree or memorial, contact information of person to be notified of the donation).

If you would rather send your donation by mail, you may print a hard-copy donation form.

For more information, or to make a donation by phone, please call the UOAA office at 1-800-826-0826.