The vision of The Heart Touch Project is a world in which massage therapy and therapeutic touch are a standard patient care benefit in every healthcare setting. Since 1995, The Heart Touch Project has been an educational non-profit organization dedicated to the training and delivery of compassionate and healing touch to homebound or hospitalized men, women and children. Heart Touch teaches a gentle, nurturing and mindful form of touch therapy based on a profound respect for the physical and psychological needs of the individual. Strictly speaking, the Heart Touch approach is neither a technique nor a modality, but a specialized form of skilled touch, based on a holistic approach to therapeutic massage.