5-day Certificate in Children's Grief and Bereavement

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Certificate Program in Children's Grief and Bereavement (5-day program) Gain the skills to provide evidence-based to support children, youth, and families grieving the dying, or death of someone they care about.
Dates: May 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10, 2019
Facilitators: Andrea Warnick, RN., MA., Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S., Lysa Toye, MSW., RSW., and Rev. Andrew Blake, Esther Rhee, MSW.
This training is suitable for: Any professional or volunteer who is in a position to influence the support received by a grieving child. This includes front-line workers and volunteers such as medical professionals, educators, clergy, social workers, administrators, residential workers, counsellors, funeral service providers and hospice volunteers.

This certificate program is comprised of 5 individual learning modules that together equips participants with the skills to provide evidence-based support to children, youth, and families grieving the dying, or death of someone they care about.

Register for the full certificate program, or any one of the individual modules/workshops.
Module 1 | May 6: Children at the Bedside: Preparing children for the death of someone close to them.
Module 2 | May 7: When Death Darkens the Door: Supporting bereaved children and youth.
Module 3 | May 8: Using Mindfulness and Compassion to Support Grieving Children and Families.
Module 4 | May 9: When Grief Gets More Complicated: Supporting the harder-to-serve populations.
Module 5 | May 10: Dancing in the Darkness: Creative approaches to working with grieving children and youth.

Each Individual Learning Module/workshop may be taken separate from the Certificate Program as stand-alone workshops however, all 5 modules must be completed to receive the certificate.