Helping and other service professionals, please join us for this free dinner workshop!
For service professionals, encountering someone who is grieving is inevitable. Bereavement can take a toll both mentally and physically, and so learning how to support grief in others and yourselves is key. Yet most professionals do not receive training on what grief looks like or how to respond to bereaved individuals with compassion.
To help service professionals learn more about how to support grief in their communities and sustain themselves in their work, the Center for the Advancement of Bereavement Care at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Health System, and Evermore, a national bereavement policy and advocacy organization, are hosting this special workshop.
This event provides the opportunity for service professionals in the South Florida community to be introduced to the newly developed Community Bereavement Guide. This guide is designed to improve bereavement awareness and community-based support for grieving individuals. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn more about grief through reviewing the guide, and they will also be invited to provide feedback to help ensure the guide is as relevant and useful as possible for their respective professions and the grieving individuals with whom they are most likely to work.
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, we are thrilled that as part of this event, experts from the Children’s Bereavement Center will also offer a session on self-care after loss for all attendees.
The workshop will be approximately two hours long. Doors will open at 5:30 PM for attendees to check-in at registration, network, and help themselves to dinner. The workshop will begin promptly at 6:15 PM and end at 8:15 PM.
This event is generously funded by the L and L Copeland Foundation and the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and further supported by the Center for the Advancement of Bereavement Care at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Evermore.
We are deeply grateful for the generous support of Local 1403 and the Children’s Bereavement Center and for Local 1403’s donation of the Fire Tower building for this event.
