Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
DATE: February 3, 2012
CONTACT: Dr. Roxanne Debski- Seigel
Karen Ann Quinlan Memorial Foundation
Offices in Newton & Phillipsburg, NJ & Milford PA.
PHONE: 973-383-0115
TOLL FREE: 800-882-1117
FAX: 973-383-6889
EMAIL: rdebski-seigel@karenannquinlanhospice.org
WEBSITE: www.karenannquinlanhospice.org
Bereavement Facilitator Training Series presented by the Joseph T. Quinlan Bereavement Center February 20th.
Newton – February 3, 2012 – The Bereavement Facilitator training is offered to anyone who has an interest in learning how to develop, implement and facilitate a bereavement self-help support group. For professional counselors, we are able to offer .6 CEU’s through NBCC. The program will discuss grief education, grief process, what is appropriate in grief, societal expectations in grief, facilitator self-awareness, multi-cultural diversity and perspectives, organization and implementation of a self-help bereavement support group. Objectives will be to learn appropriate expectations in grief; what appropriate expressions in grief are; become a self-aware and reflective facilitator; how to organize and implement a self-help bereavement support group; become aware of group dynamics; and how to run an effective self-help bereavement support group.
The class will be held Monday, February 20, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Joseph T. Quinlan Bereavement Center, 61 Spring Street, lower level suite 100, Newton, NJ 07860.
“Establishing and Maintaining Self-Help Grief Support Groups”
Session Topics Include:
- The grief process
- How to run an effective bereavement self-help support group
- Facilitator self-awareness
- Identify how individual personalities can affect group dynamics
- Dealing with difficult or defensive behaviors
For more information and the availability of these classes, please call the Joseph T. Quinlan Bereavement Center in Newton at 973-940-0413, or visit our website, www.karenannquinlanhospice.org. There is a $50.00 registration & materials fee which also includes lunch.
The Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice, in conjunction with the Joseph T. Quinlan Bereavement Center is a NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider ( ACEP™) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.
The Karen Ann Quinlan Memorial Foundation is passionately dedicated to providing Hospice care for the terminally ill, Bereavement for those who have lost loved ones and Home Care assistance for recovery patients. Serving North and Northwest NJ and the Pike County area PA; please call 800 882 1117 to reach any of our services. Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice, 99 Sparta Ave., Newton, NJ, Karen Ann Quinlan Home Health Care, 755 Memorial Parkway, Phillipsburg, NJ and Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice, 104 Bennett Ave., Milford, PA. For programs, events, and more information visit www.karenannquinlanhospice.org.
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