About Smart Collaborations

Smart Collaborations helps individuals, families, caregivers, and organizations prepare for medical, caregiving, emergency, and end-of-life situations with greater clarity and confidence.

Whether you are planning ahead or responding to an unexpected situation, the goal is the same: turn complicated information and unfinished tasks into a practical plan you can use.

Experienced Guidance for Complex Situations

Meet our Founder: Clarice Smart

Clarice is a certified End-of-Life Doula with more than 20 years of experience in public health, healthcare coordination, medical advocacy, emergency preparedness, and community education.

She is also an experienced public presenter who has spent many years speaking to audiences of varied sizes and backgrounds. Her work includes in-person education, community presentations, professional training, facilitated discussions, and Zoom programs for geographically diverse audiences.

Clarice knows how to make complicated, emotionally difficult material understandable without making it cold or overwhelming. She helps clients and audiences identify immediate priorities, prepare for difficult conversations, organize essential information, and leave with practical next steps.

Her approach is compassionate, direct, nonjudgmental, culturally aware, and tailored to each person’s circumstances, family or chosen-family structure, values, and goals.

Professional Background

• More than 20 years of public health, healthcare coordination, and medical advocacy

• Certified End-of-Life Doula

• Former wildland firefighter with first-responder experience

• Public health emergency-preparedness and crisis-response experience

• Many years of public speaking, training, and audience education

• Experience with intimate groups, professional audiences, large gatherings, and Zoom programs

• Nationwide consultations and virtual programs