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SUMMARY:Introduction to Grief Support Series | The Kaleidoscope of Grief: Loss in Many Forms
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is part of an ongoing series that will provide a foundation of introductory information for anyone working with or providing support to children\, teens\, and families who may be grieving. This series is not progressive; sessions can be viewed in any order. \nTypically\, when we think about grief\, we associate it with loss due to a death. Yet\, we know that many children and teens struggle with complex issues such as housing insecurity\, out of home placement\, family members experiencing addiction\, out-of-home placement\, incarceration of a family member\, and a host of other challenging circumstances. While not related to a death\, each of these challenges is in fact a type of loss. Often these non-death losses and the grief that accompanies them go unrecognized by caring adults. In this workshop we will expand our view of grief to include death loss as well as the more ambiguous non-death losses that sometimes go unnoticed. Participants will leave with a greater understanding of the ways that children experience grief throughout their development\, the principles of grief-informed practice\, and tools to support children on their grief journey. \nThis playback is available to active NACG members only.  \n \nMembers must be logged into the member portal to access the playback. Not currently a member? Become a NACG member today! Your membership will provide access to free monthly webinars with CEs on current topics to support you in your work\, discounts on educational events\, access to all webinar playbacks\, and more. To learn more and become a member to access this webinar for no additional cost\, visit HERE → \n  \nTarget Audience: Students\, interns\, individuals entering the field of childhood bereavement\, new staff members\, new counselors\, group facilitators\, volunteers\, anyone who wants to invest in their practice.\nInstructional Level: Novice – This best describes a topic or issue that the prospective audience is encountering for the first time in a meaningful way.\nFormat: Live Interactive Webinar \n  \nObjectives:\nAfter attending this webinar\, participants will be able to: \n\nIdentify a range of experiences as grief and loss.\nDescribe the ways that grief and loss impact children at home\, school\, and in the community.\nDiscuss the principles of grief-informed practice.\nExplore three ways that a caring adult can support a child who is grieving.\n\n  \nSpeaker Bios:\nAlexa Livelsberger\, MS\, LCSW\, is the Outreach and Education Coordinator at Highmark Caring Place\, a center for grieving children\, adolescents and their families where she works to heighten awareness of children’s grief through consultations\, presentations and trainings for professional and community groups. Lexi has a master’s of science in social administration from Case Western Reserve University and is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania. Lexi has worked with children and families in a variety of settings throughout her career\, including community mental health\, kinship care\, and victim service fields. \nJanet Arida\, PhD\, earned a bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Northwestern University\, a master’s degree in Social Work from The University of Chicago\, and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a licensed clinical social worker and earned certification in Thanatology from the Association for Death Education and Counseling. Janet is currently a child grief specialist as well as the Outreach and Education Coordinator at the Highmark Caring Place in Warrendale\, PA\, where she oversees peer support groups for grieving children and their families. Additionally\, in her role as Outreach and Education Coordinator\, Janet works to heighten awareness of children’s grief through consultations\, presentations\, and trainings for professional and community groups. Prior to joining the Caring Place as a staff member\, Janet was a clinical instructor and researcher in end-of-life issues in the School of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. During her career\, she has worked with children\, adolescents\, and families in a variety of clinical and community-based settings in both the Chicago and Pittsburgh areas. \n  \nRefund/cancellation policy: If you need to cancel your registration\, please contact Megan Lopez at megan.lopez@childrengrieve.org or at (432) 288-4688. Please note that no refunds will be given. \nTo request accessibility accommodations: The National Alliance for Children’s Grief is committed to providing universal access to all our events. Please contact Megan Lopez at megan.lopez@childrengrieve.org or at (432) 288-4688 to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
URL:https://nacg.org/event/the-kaleidoscope-of-grief-loss-in-many-forms/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Introduction to Grief Support Series,Live Interactive Webinar,Members Only Playback
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231109T153000
DTSTAMP:20260421T033417
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SUMMARY:2023 Data and Evaluation Training Series #4: Program Evaluation Planning
DESCRIPTION:This workshop on Evaluation Planning will focus on how organizations can develop an evaluation plan for their program\, including identifying key questions\, selecting a design\, measure mapping\, and protocol development. Presenters will discuss the purpose of creating an evaluation plan and how it helps organizations reach goals and will detail essential evaluation plan elements. The workshop will review the core steps in evaluation planning\, enabling participants to walk away with clear next steps for how to establish this important evaluation best practice to inform their work. \nGiven limited resources and stretched capacity\, data collection procedures and program evaluation strategies at the individual program level often fall short in terms of identifying gaps in service\, areas for growth\, and program impact. Today\, philanthropic giving demands a quantifiable return on investment in exchange for donations and grants. Combining nearly 20 years of experience in designing bereavement-focused evaluation protocols with the power of the Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model (CBEM)\, with philanthropic support provided by the New York Life Foundation and in collaboration with the National Alliance for Children’s Grief (NACG)\, Judi’s House/JAG Institute offers a series of free trainings to share best practices in data collection and program evaluation. This is the 4th session of the Data and Evaluation Training Series. \n\n \n  \nThis session is part of the 2023 Data and Evaluation Training Series. To view the other sessions\, click on the title below. \nSession 1: Data Basics\nSession 2: Program Evaluation Basics\nSession 3: Theory of Change\nThis session – Session 4: Program Evaluation Planning \n  \nCE Total: 1 continuing education credit available\nTarget Audience: Counselors\, Social workers\, Bereavement support professionals\nInstructional Level: Basic – This best describes a topic or issue that the prospective audience is encountering for the first time in a meaningful way.\nFormat: Live Interactive Webinar \n  \nObjectives:\nBy the end of this presentation\, participants will be able to: \n\nSummarize the purpose of developing an evaluation plan.\nExplain how to use evaluation planning to achieve goals.\nIdentify the essential elements of a good evaluation plan.\n\n  \n  \n  \nSpeaker Bio:\nLaura Landry\, PhD is the Director of Evaluation and Research at Judi’s House/JAG Institute. She has 15 years experience evaluating community-based programs and large-scale prevention initiatives\, as well as building the capacity of organizations to utilize data to drive decisions. In addition to heading the organization’s Childhood Bereavement Changemaker Initiative\, Laura oversees the Evaluation and Research Department. Her work focuses on evaluating Judi’s House services\, building evaluation/data utilization capacity in the field\, and disseminating the prevalence of childhood bereavement to inform advocates and practitioners working in the field. \nMadeline (Maddy) Verheyden Saunders works as a Research Associate at Judi’s House/JAG Institute. In her role\, she helps lead the Childhood Bereavement Changemaker expansion\, collaborating with organizations across the country to support implementation of data-informed strategies in decision-making\, program implementation\, and evaluation. Maddy holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology with concentrations in Evaluation Research and Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She can be reached at maddyv@judishouse.org. \n  \nContinuing Education (CE) Provider Information:\nEach professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by their licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend “live” (in real-time) to earn CEs. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the CE process\, please contact Megan Lopez at megan.lopez@childrengrieve.org or at (432) 288-4688. \nThe National Alliance for Children’s Grief has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider\, ACEP No. 7221. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The National Alliance for Children’s Grief is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Counselors completing this course will receive 1.5 contact hours. \nThe National Alliance for Children’s Grief is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0689. Social Workers completing this course will receive 1.5 contact hours. \nThe National Alliance for Children’s Grief is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0238. Counselors completing this course will receive 1.5 contact hours. \nNational Alliance for Children’s Grief\, #1819\, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations\, not individual courses\, are approved as ACE providers.  State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. National Alliance for Children’s Grief maintains responsibility for this course.  ACE provider approval period: 07/20/2023 – 07/20/2026. Counselors completing this course will receive 1.5 continuing education credits. \nRefund/cancellation policy: If you need to cancel your registration\, please contact Megan Lopez at megan.lopez@childrengrieve.org or at (432) 288-4688. Please note that no refunds will be given. \nTo request accessibility accommodations: The National Alliance for Children’s Grief is committed to providing universal access to all our events. Please contact Megan Lopez at megan.lopez@childrengrieve.org or at (432) 288-4688 to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. \nAttendance policy: To earn CEs for this event\, you must attend the entirety of the event as demonstrated by your autogenerated login and logout time on the Zoom Webinar report and complete an online event evaluation within seven (7) days of the event. Please make sure you are signed into Zoom using the name that matches your professional license and not the name of your place of employment\, as there is no way to verify your attendance after the fact if your name does not appear on the Zoom Webinar report. CE certificates will be sent out within 30 days of the educational event. The link for your certificate will come from “certificates@simplecert.net” as the National Alliance for Children’s Grief. Please be sure to add this email to your “safe sender list”. The NACG is unable to process certificates after 90 days from the date of the event.  \nGrievance policy: To view the NACG’s Continuing Education Grievance Policy\, you can find it HERE. Please complete THIS form to share a grievance with the NACG regarding a continuing education event.
URL:https://nacg.org/event/2023-data-and-evaluation-training-series-4-program-evaluation-planning/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Live Interactive Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T133000
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SUMMARY:Needs Assessment Training Series #3: Using Data to Refine Program Strategies and Secure Funding
DESCRIPTION:The third and final training for the three-part webinar series on assessments will again build off of the 2nd training on data collection\, organization\, and interpretation. This webinar will again go into step-by-step detail of how to prioritize the assessment information and how to begin to utilize this information for initial planning for refining and improving programs as well as how this type of information can help organizations to secure funding. \nThis session is part of the Needs Assessment Training Series. To learn more and view the past sessions\, click here. \n\n \nDownload the slides →\nDownload the handout packet →\n  \nBecome a NACG member today! Your membership will provide access to free monthly webinars with CEs on current topics to support you in your work\, discounts on educational events\, access to all webinar playbacks\, and more. To learn more and become a member to access this webinar for no additional cost\, visit HERE → \n  \nContinuing Education (CE) credits are not available for webinar playbacks. \nTarget Audience: Counselors\, Social workers\, Bereavement support professionals\nInstructional Level: Basic – This best describes a topic or issue that the prospective audience is encountering for the first time in a meaningful way.\nFormat: Live Interactive Webinar \n  \nObjectives:\nAfter attending this webinar\, participants will be able to: \n\nIncrease knowledge and skills of how to engage in reviewing data to determine priorities to address the needs that the data revealed.\nIncrease knowledge and skills of how to utilize data and priorities to support initial planning for refining and improving programs.\nIncrease knowledge and skills of how to utilize data and priorities to support information development to secure future funding.\nIncrease knowledge and skills of how to engage in data review and prioritization\, and how to utilize data findings and priorities to support initial planning for refining and improving programs\, and information development to support efforts to secure future funding.\n\n\n  \nSpeaker Bios:\nAilala Kay (she/her)\, MA\, is OMNI’s Director of Learning and Development. Ms. Kay has been with OMNI since 2004 and has overseen the provision of learning and development-focused projects\, such as training\, technical assistance\, coaching\, evaluation\, and facilitation services to multiple state and local government agencies\, foundations\, and non-profits. Ms. Kay brings particular expertise in the design and delivery of trainings and facilitations focused on areas of needs assessment\, strategic planning\, implementation\, and evaluation processes while supporting groups to optimize their efficiency\, cohesion\, collaboration\, and decision-making. She is a certified performance coach\, trainer of Prevention Ethics and Substance Abuse Specialist Trainer (SAPST) training\, and is also certified in Effective Facilitator Strategies\, Keys to Sustainability (CAPT)\, and Communities that Care\, and is a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) facilitator. Ms. Kay is also a staff adjunct for the University of Oklahoma Master of Prevention Science degree program. \nOna Crow (she/her)\, CPSII\, MSW\, is a Senior Learning and Development Manager and has been with OMNI for 5 years.  She brings over 15 years of experience in both direct service and project/program management with diverse populations. She values the power of community in creating systemic transformation to solve complex problems and sees strong relationships as the foundation of this work. Ona brings high-level expertise and experience in developing and delivering training grounded in adult-learning theory and interactive\, and  equitable approaches. Ona brings an embodied\, authentic\, and joyful presence to training and facilitation. She is an expert at designing effective\, engaging\, and customized training processes that center equity\, as well as customizing the process of knowledge and skill building to meet the unique needs of each organization or group she is working with. \n  \n \nSupported by the philanthropic investment\nof the New York Life Foundation. \n  \nRefund/cancellation policy: If you need to cancel your registration\, please contact Megan Lopez at megan.lopez@childrengrieve.org or at (432) 288-4688. Please note that no refunds will be given. \nTo request accessibility accommodations: The National Alliance for Children’s Grief is committed to providing universal access to all our events. Please contact Megan Lopez at megan.lopez@childrengrieve.org or at (432) 288-4688 to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
URL:https://nacg.org/event/needs-assessment-training-series-3-using-data-to-refine-program-strategies-and-secure-funding/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Live Interactive Webinar
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