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A New Kind of Normal: Caring for Dying Children and Supporting Their Families for Years to Come.
Its Autism awareness/acceptance month so join Amy McFarlane as she explores grief and how it can be experienced by those with Autism. As Founder and CEO of Recreational Respite Inc. Canada (est. 2008) Amy is a pioneer of establishing the use of recreation and respite as a support service offered in the community to vulnerable populations who experience isolation, loneliness, and a lack of participatory opportunities. Her efforts and passion are to promote social health and connectivity amongst those who otherwise face barriers. Now as a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in private practice at Huron Rose Counselling, her counselling focus and expertise support individuals with a disability, chronic illness, or disease and those in caregiving roles. Also, individuals who are struggling with grief, loss, death, dying or trauma, including moral injury or PTSD
The death of a significant person represents one of the most powerful disruptions in all aspects of a child or youth’s emotional existence. Yet few people, including professionals in the field of mental health, medicine, or education, receive formal training on how to support children and youth who are grieving a death. In this webinar Ms. Warnick will identify: • Common barriers to supporting children and youth who are grieving • Innovative and practical strategies that can be used in a variety of settings to help children and youth integrate the reality of the death into their lives in a healthy way • Important messages from children, youth, and their families that illustrate “best practice” guidelines for supporting the wellbeing of children who are grieving
Shani Thornton is a Certified Child Life Specialist and a full-time mom of two boys. She provides child life services through her private practice, in Northern California, serving the Sacramento region She supports families coping with life’s challenges of illness, loss, trauma, and transitions. Through therapeutic play, creative arts, education, and emotional support, she helps children process these challenges and create a coping plan to best support their needs. She offers in-home visits, phone/virtual consultations, caregiver workshops, and support to community programs and schools. She is also a Registered Wonders & Worries Provider, serving children who have a loved one with a medical diagnosis. To learn more about her services you can check out her website at ChildLifeMommy.com or follow her on social media @ChildLifeMommy.
Presenter; Laura Breau M.A., CCLS, CIMI-2 Imagine Child Life Services https://imaginechildlife.com/
Child Life Specialists are navigating the physical, emotional and spiritual affects of the cumulative care taking trauma experienced during a global pandemic and humanitarian crisis. Creating a Psychologically Safe Space will discuss; -Emotional regulation versus emotional repression -Internal regulation, cohesiveness and neutrality -Heart Space and how emotions are energetically communicated -How energetic communication occurs at an unseen level -How to be with the trauma not of it -Ways to integrate the 3 components of Self Compassion into both personal and professional life -Warning signs of over identification and how to navigate the Modes -Practicing on the job self compassion while caring for yourself and the patient simultaneously -Recognizing and holding space for your own humanness Presenter; Tara Ryan Kosmas, MSN, RN, CHSE, SOAR Founder Debriefing the Front Lines Inc Heal the Healers Programs Tara is a Masters prepared nurse and holds both debriefing and peer support certification. While working as a Nursing Professor and Simulation Lab Director at Towson University in Baltimore Maryland, she founded Debriefing the Front Lines, Inc. and created the Heal the Healers Programs. Through professional education and lived experience as a pediatric burn survivor, Tara created a psychologically safe space for nurses to come both alone and in commUNITY for support.
Agnes Chen is a registered nurse, social justice advocate, and the founder of Starlings Community, a not-for-profit co-creating a community committed to the healing of individuals impacted by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use. Marrying her lived and professional experiences, Agnes explores how stigma impacts the health and well-being of impacted individuals while inspiring a community that can support families to move forward with hope and healing