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SUMMARY:The Future of Grief Camps: Themes and Standards in a Changing World
DESCRIPTION:There are so many ways we are seeing shifts in how we support youth and families experiencing grief\, from shifting camp models to creating more accessibility throughout a program. While there is so much power in how diverse bereavement camps have become\, it can also feel important to come back together as a field to collectively share our foundation for these camps and how we plan to move forward as a field. \nJoin us for a panel discussion where professionals from the bereavement and camp fields come together to highlight important themes and standards for bereavement camps today and looking forward. Topics such as expanding the definition of wellbeing to actively working on creating equitable and inclusive camp spaces. The panel will share their thoughts around these important themes and more. We will also address the updated Bereavement Camp Standards of Practice as a practical tool for the bereavement and camp fields. \n\n \nNot 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  \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\nInvestigate key themes in the bereavement camp field where shifts are being seen.\nInform bereavement professionals of the free Bereavement Camp Standards of Practice resource to help inform bereavement camp standards across the field.\nAppraise minimum practices and standards to ensure a safer bereavement camp experience for participants.\n\n\n  \nSpeaker Bios:\nKiri Meyer (Moderator and Panelist) is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin\, a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC)\, and a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200). Kiri has spent over a decade helping to support individuals and families of all ages through individual/family counseling and camp-based programs. Kiri supports camp and other non-profit programs by acting as a Mental Health Professional throughout the camp program or as needed for other programs. She has conducted trainings in the areas of trauma and bereavement throughout her professional career and is now part of the Eluna Camp Erin team helping to support professionals in the Camp Erin network. \nDr. Tina Barrett (Panelist) is the Executive Director/Co-founder of Tamarack Grief Resource Center in Montana.  Since 1994\, Barrett has specialized in family systems\, strength-oriented and outdoor-based support following grief and trauma. Her doctoral research illuminated benefits of youth bereavement camps. Over the past 30 years\, Barrett has focused on best practices of nature-based support with trauma survivors and family-systems. She has designed and directed various models of grief camps for youth\, teens\, women\, families\, and professionals in Montana and six other states including A Camp to Remember which she launched in 1997. She served on the Board of Directors for the National Alliance for Children’s Grief (NACG)\, and currently serves on the Leadership Team of Project Tomorrow Montana and the Advisory Board for Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. Barrett received the Community Educator Award from Association for Death Educators and Counselors (ADEC) in 2019. \nJohn Hamilton\, MA\, (Panelist) is a strategic leader in the camp and out-of-school time (OST) space. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer for the Alliance for Camp Health. John has a deep understanding of mental\, emotional\, and social health (MESH +) of youth and national program expansion. Prior to ACH he served as the national director for Camp HOPE America. John has an MA in Leadership and Cultural Justice\, is the cofounder of the Outdoor Wellbeing Lab\, and is a former executive director of a camp near Lake Tahoe. \nKatie Hartley\, LPC\, has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 1989 and has worked with children and youth her entire career. Her practice has included work with many populations\, emphasizing developmental theory and non-verbal interactions utilizing the creative arts. Katie served as an adjunct professor at Drexel as well as internship supervisor for many years. She has worked in private practice\, with school districts\, developmental centers and created an arts center for therapeutic work. Katie’s current role at Penn Medicine is as a children’s bereavement coordinator and clinical director for Camp Erin (a weekend camp for grieving youth). She continues to use the creative arts and has completed MBSR training and uses mindfulness and meditation within her work often. \nBrianne “Brie” Overton\, FT\, LPC\, NCC\, (Panelist) is the Chief Clinical Officer of Experience Camps\, a national nonprofit that provides no-fee\, clinically informed programs for kids who have experienced the death of a parent\, sibling or primary caregiver – as well as resources and advocacy so all grieving children can live a life rich with possibility. Brie received her MA in Thanatology from Hood College\, her M.Ed in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from University of Missouri – St. Louis\, and is a doctoral candidate in counseling at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. She has spent 16 years in the field of thanatology providing grief education\, support\, counseling\, death education\, suicide prevention and intervention\, and consultation. \nJason Stout\, for more than two decades\, has been helping youth and adults find their inner strength\, form meaningful connections\, and experience personal transformation through adventure challenge and time in nature. His passion for this work is rooted in the losses of his sister\, grandmother\, and father — all before Jason was 15 years old. He struggled to deal with these losses as a teen and adult\, but he found purpose and healing after completing a 78-day Winter Wilderness Leadership Expedition.   In honor of his dad and sister\, Jason created a national wilderness program for at-risk and grieving teens\, which was featured in Backpacker Magazine\, The Denver Post\, and the Associated Press. Jason is founder of Stoutreach LLC where he provides training\, consultation\, and facilitation to outdoor education\, wilderness therapy\, and gap year programs.  In addition\, he serves as an advisor to TAPS where he manages\, develops\, and facilitates a variety of programming including mindfulness and healing in nature for youth and adult military survivors.  Previously he served Judi’s House as Outreach and Education Manager and Outward Bound as the National Outreach Director. \n  \n \nSupported by the philanthropic investment\nof the New York Life Foundation.
URL:https://nacg.org/event/the-future-of-grief-camps-themes-and-standards-in-a-changing-world/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Live Interactive Webinar,Members Only Playback
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SUMMARY:In Today’s World: Cultivating Collective Intercultural Wellbeing and a Sense of Belonging in the Community
DESCRIPTION:In today’s multiple pandemics of oppression\, mass trauma\, forced migration\, COVID-19\, and climate change\, there is sustained traumatic stress with corresponding opportunities to heal. Historic\, collective\, and intergenerational trauma have spread dis-ease throughout human nature. Humanity has experienced more and more fragmentation\, collective violence\, and isolation. \nIn this workshop attendees will begin to understand the effects of collective loss due to war\, persecution\, and terrorism\, its impact on children and families\, as well as healing through the re-establishment of belonging. “Humans sitting within trauma from war\, persecution\, and terrorism tell us over and over again how much the systems of oppression need to change for healing to occur. In fact\, they state that the first step in healing is not so much about revealing the darkest traumatic memories. The greatest healing\, they report\, is having a sense of belonging in the community.” (St. Thomas\, Sheffield and Johnson. (2024) Collective Trauma and Human Suffering.) \nParticipants will learn the growing pains and evolution of a 25 year old bereavement and intercultural program. We will share a documentary film on collective loss produced by the Intercultural Advisory Council at the Center for Grieving Children in Maine. This documentary shares the added complexities of cross cultural definitions of collective loss\, grief\, as well as acculturative stress. We will explore inhibitors of cross-cultural communication and the five essentials of collective healing towards belonging. \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  \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\nIdentify at least three strategies in bringing belonging to intercultural settings.\nIdentify the top three inhibitors to cross-cultural communication.\nLearn the five essentials to collective healing.\nExplore and identify at least one initiative in implementing collective healing into their organization.\nIdentify at least two added barriers to healing when resettling from war and persecution.\n\n\n  \nSpeaker Bios:\nMarie Sheffield\, MA\, LCPC\, is a clinical counselor\, art therapist\, co-author and interculturalist\, working in the field of mass trauma\, intercultural communication and collective healing. In addition to being an adjunct professor at University of Southern Maine\, she has spent two decades enhancing and implementing a collective healing and intercultural model with those resettling from war and persecution. Additionally\, over the course of ten years\, Marie was one of two mental health consultants for America’s Camp\, a six day overnight camp supporting children who lost a parent(s) on 9.11\, or in the course of duty. At the Center for Grieving Children\, while developing intercultural and diversity training curriculum\, she established an Intercultural Advisory Council producing documentary films and community conversations across differences. Marie also completed a fellowship with the Intercultural Communication Institute. Since then\, Marie has become a senior facilitator of Personal Leadership (plseminars.com) and incorporates this model in all of her work. As co-founder of Bridge to Belong Consulting (bridge2belong.com)\, her training and consultations are focused on bringing skills of collective healing support into the healthcare\, education and community systems. \n  \nJustine Mugabo\, BS\, is the Intercultural Program Coordinator at the Center for Grieving Children. She works with facilitators in social and educational institutions to provide collective healing support and growth for children resettling from war and persecution. She states that her passion is to “help people in achieving their dreams and goals.” According to Justine\, “Our goal at the Center is to help children and families to find hope and love and increase belonging in order to express feelings safely relative to the grief and loss. Such building of community resilience is a resource to persevere in the World.” \nJustine is a Board Member for In Her Presence\, an immigrant owned non-profit supporting asylum seeking women in navigating pathways forward. She collaborates in developing policy\, programming\, and resources and provides direct support. She also spends her time on the board of Double Hope Children\, an immigrant owned non-profit working to support the needs of children resettling from war and persecution. \nBefore resettling into the United States herself\, Justine worked in customer service management with the Mobile Telephone Network of Rwanda. With her lived experience\, training and leadership position Justine has developed effective skills in intercultural communication\, collective healing support and knowledge. \n  \n \nSupported by the philanthropic investment\nof the New York Life Foundation. \n  \n\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 who complete 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 ensure 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.  \nCE Certificate retrieval request: The NACG maintains continuing education records for at least six years from the educational event’s completion date. Records include the name and curriculum vitae of the presenter\, a record of attendance\, an outline of the course\, the date and location of the course\, and the number of hours for completion of the course. If you attended a CE educational event and need a copy of your CE certificate\, please complete THIS form to obtain a copy. Please note if the education event was more than 90 days ago\, and a required evaluation was not completed\, a certificate cannot be provided per the policy. \nGrievance policy:  View the NACG’s Continuing Education Grievance Policy HERE. Please complete THIS form to share a grievance with the NACG regarding a continuing education event.
URL:https://nacg.org/event/in-todays-world-cultivating-collective-intercultural-wellbeing/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Live Interactive Webinar,Members Only Playback
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