Legacy Forum #4: Navigating Healthcare and Becoming an Effective Advocate
Navigating the healthcare system can feel overwhelming—especially when you are trying to make sure that you or someone you love receives the right care, understands the options, and has a voice in important healthcare decisions.
Legacy Forum #4 will help participants become more informed, prepared, and confident healthcare advocates. This free virtual forum will explore practical ways to communicate effectively with healthcare professionals, ask the right questions, prepare for appointments, organize important health information, understand your role in the care process, and speak up when something does not feel right.
Our special guest, Pastor Tony Montgomery, Sr., brings a powerful perspective shaped by faith, lived experience, pastoral leadership, and healthcare advocacy. A pastor for 30 years, Pastor Montgomery has also completed Clinical Pastoral Education training and serves as lead chaplain for the Jackson Fire Department. He is the author of Honey, I Need an Advocate, a book that speaks directly to the importance of having—and becoming—an advocate when navigating healthcare.
Through his personal journey and the lessons behind Honey, I Need an Advocate, Pastor Montgomery will share insight into finding your voice, asking questions, navigating difficult healthcare experiences, and becoming an active participant in decisions affecting your health or the health of someone you love.
Meet Pastor Montgomery:
https://www.compassion-bydesign.org/tmbio
Ebony Travis-Tichenor, MBA, PHR, will guide the conversation as the Legacy Forum Series Facilitator. A respected leader, longtime caregiver, and storyteller, Ebony brings nearly three decades of corporate experience and nearly two decades of personal caregiving experience to the Legacy Forum Series. She creates a welcoming environment where participants can learn, reflect, ask questions, and connect the conversation to their own experiences.
Meet Ebony:
https://www.compassion-bydesign.org/ettfacbio-1
The forum will also feature the Prepared Caregiver Corner™ with Founding Expert Sharron Williams, BSN, RN, ACHC-Certified Consultant. With more than 40 years of nursing experience, Sharron brings extensive clinical, home health, education, and healthcare leadership experience to the series. For Legacy Forum #4, the Prepared Caregiver Corner™ will focus on healthcare preparedness and practical ways to organize essential medical and medication information so it is readily available during appointments, care transitions, and unexpected emergencies.
Meet Sharron:
https://www.compassion-bydesign.org/swbio
Whether you are a family caregiver, older adult, healthcare professional, community advocate, or someone who wants to become a stronger advocate for yourself or a loved one, you are invited to join us.
Your voice matters. Your questions matter. Your preparation matters. Be informed. Be prepared. Be an advocate.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 | 5:00–6:30 PM ET | Virtual | Free
Register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XrlsyQfrSq2ZJ6u7_A6qxA