Hospice Foundation of America
E-Newsletter
Volume 7, Issue 3
March 2007
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
In this issue:
- Message from David Abrams, President/CEO
- HFA's 14th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
- What's New @ HFA
- Focus on: HFA Sponsors and Partners
- Upcoming Conferences and Educational Opportunities
- Site Coordinator's Corner
Message from David Abrams, President/CEO
On March 22, HFA will broadcast its fourteenth annual National Bereavement Teleconference, Living With Grief®: Before and After the Death. The program has come to be recognized as the leading training program on hospice and bereavement in the country, having reached over three quarters of a million professionals in communities across the US and Canada.
The impact of Living With Grief has been recognized internationally. This year it will be webcast in Australia, and we are very proud at HFA to have a downlink site in Iraq, at the 3rd Signal Brigade. Thank you to Brigade Chaplain Thomas Condry.
We thank everyone who has participated
in the past and those who plan to join us this year. We invite you to
think of ways to spread the word about the program and encourage
participation in your community. If you haven’t already done so, you can
locate a site near
you at our
online site map.
Please be sure to contact the Site Coordinator listed to find out specifics about the program and CEU requirements at that particular site.
HFA's 14th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
HFA's 14th annual National Bereavement Teleconference, Living With Grief®: Before and After the Death, will be broadcast live Thursday, March 22, from 1:30--4:00pm EDT. This satellite and webcast teleconference, as well as the accompanying book, will explore the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death.
The program will be useful to a range of professionals who counsel persons who are bereaved including psychologists, counselors, clergy, social workers, nurses, case managers and other health care workers, and funeral directors, as well as educators, teachers and school-based personnel. The information will also be helpful to individuals who offer education on loss, grief, dying or death.
Frank Sesno, an Emmy-award winning journalist, special correspondent with CNN and a faculty member George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, will moderate the program, which features panelists:
- Scott W. Bradley, MSW, CT, CFSP
- Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
- Lorraine Hedtke, MSW, ACSW, LCSW
- Patricia Murphy, PhD, APN, FAAN
- Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
- Robert Washington, PhD, MDiv
The teleconference discussion will include these topics.
Teleconference site coordinators and/or attendees are encouraged to email their grief-related questions for the Living with Grief panelists to griefquestions@hospicefoundation.org. Selected questions will be posed to panelists by the moderator. Names and organizations will be used unless otherwise specified. Please keep your questions limited to the subject of grief. There will not be a call-in number during the teleconference in an effort to expand panel discussion time.
Focus on: HFA Sponsors and Partners
Hospice Foundation of America is grateful to the following organizations that have offered their support and participation in this year's teleconference.
The teleconference is sponsored in part from a grant from:
The Foundation for End of Life
Care
The Foundation for End-of-Life Care, a not-for-profit organization
established by VITAS Healthcare Corporation, was created to improve
end-of-life care for individual patients and their families, while
supporting fundamental societal change.
The New Jersey Funeral Service Education Corporation
The NJSFDA is committed to building strong relationships with caring
professionals throughout the state. The affiliate education foundation,
The New Jersey Funeral Service Education Corp., (NJFSEC) is a major
sponsor of the Hospice Foundation of America's 2007 National Bereavement
Teleconference. Through this and other outreach efforts, the NJFSEC is
seeking to promote the ideals of Knowledge Based Funeral Service, which
presumes that there is great value to be found in the relationships
funeral directors have with those in other professions.
In addition, HFA produces the teleconference in cooperation with:
The Adventist Communications Network, the satellite media distribution service for the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. If you need to locate a satellite facility in your area to host the teleconference, call the Adventist Communication Network: they will help you contact your local Seventh Day Adventist Church (1-800-226-1119), which makes its facilities available at no charge.
The
Association for Death Education and Counseling
The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) is one of the
oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and
bereavement. Its nearly 2,000 members include a wide array of mental and
medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and
volunteers. ADEC offers numerous educational opportunities through its
annual conference, courses and workshops, its certification program, and
via its acclaimed newsletter, The Forum.
The Compassionate
Friends
The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support
organization that offers friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved
parents, grandparents and siblings. Chapters across the country provide
monthly meetings, phone contacts, lending libraries and a local
newsletter. The national organization provides newsletters, distributes
grief-related materials, and answers requests for referrals and
information.
The National Association of
Social Workers
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest
membership organization of professional social workers in the world,
with 150,000 members. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and
development of its members, to create and maintain professional
standards, and to advance sound social policies.
The
Department of Veterans Affairs Employee Education
System
The VA is committed to providing its employees with the training and
education they need to provide outstanding service to veterans and other
eligible customers.
Upcoming Conferences and Educational Opportunities
The Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network is seeking nominations for those social workers in the areas of research, education, practice and policy whose contributions have reached far and wide in providing quality care to the seriously ill, dying and bereaved. Completed nomination packets must be received no later than March 31. Please visit the website to read the description for this new annual award and fill out the online nomination form, or contact Karen Johnson, Project Administrator, at (212) 851-2274 with questions about the award or the nomination process.
The AGES Senior Health Care Department at Synergy Medical Education Alliance in Saginaw, MI will sponsor its 16th Annual Geriatric Conference, "End of Life Care: Negotiating the Path", on May 11. CME/CEU Credit hours are available, as well as Social work CE's. For more information please contact Beth Norton @ (989) 583-6837 or go to the website.
On May 31, the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life will hold a conference titled, "Magnified and Sanctified: Jewish Ritual, Reality, and Response at the End of Life." Physicians, social workers, rabbis, chaplains and scholars will lead more than 15 workshops examining Jewish perspectives on a variety of end-of-life issues. To receive conference alerts, send an email to: iceol@div.duke.edu.
The CE Packet may be found on the site coordinator's website. Please make sure to download and print the CE Packet as this will not be mailed to you. The CE Packet contains the required sign-in sheets, paper evaluation form, and list of board approvals.
Teleconference site coordinators and/or attendees are encouraged to email their grief-related questions for the Living with Grief panelists to griefquestions@hospicefoundation.org. Selected questions will be posed to panelists by the moderator. Names and organizations will be used unless otherwise specified. Please keep your questions limited to the subject of grief. There will not be a call-in segment during the teleconference in an effort to expand panel discussion time.
Please Note: HFA staff will not be available on the day of the teleconference; please be sure to call or email with any questions by March 20th.
This newsletter is sent to more than 6,600 subscribers on the 2nd Wednesday of every month to keep you informed of what is happening in the fields of hospice, grief and bereavement, and caregiving, as well as what's new at HFA. We encourage you to forward this e-newsletter to an interest colleague or friend. To subscribe, go to HFA's E-Newsletter sign-up page.
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This newsletter is published by Hospice
Foundation of America
David Abrams, President/CEO
http://www.hospicefoundation.org/
Board of Directors: Thomas E. Bryant, MD, JD; Myra MacPherson; Priscilla Perry; Patricia Spulak; Thomas
Spulak
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Hospice Foundation of America 2007
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