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Grief Support and Educational Opportunities for the Public and Caregivers
offered by Agencies, Individuals and Professionals
(in date order)
VANCOUVER, BC
“Dying to Know Before You Go”: Quality of Life Planning, Community and Executor Support
Saturday, March 5, 2011 from 10 am – 2 pm
Bell Alliance Lawyers and Notaries Public
#201 – 1367 West Broadway (@ Hemlock), Vancouver
For more info and to register, phone 604-873-8723 or email: smoore@bellalliance.ca
COQUITLAM, BC
“Grief is Work” with Guest Speaker, Kevin Hegseth
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 from 3 – 5 pm
In honour of Social Work Week, you are invited to attend this seminar on tools to help you with others who are grieving.
Burquitlam Funeral Home
625 North Road, Coquitlam
Registration, Linda Mizuguchi, RSW, CPC
Family Care Counsellor – 604-936-9987
Email: Linda@burquitlamfunerals.com
COQUITLAM, BC
HOPE & HEALING AFTER THE LOSS OF AN INFANT OR YOUNG CHILD
MARCH 15, 2011 from 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Presented by: Denis Boyd & Donna L. Crombie
Location: Denis Boyd & Associates, Coquitlam
Cost: $35 – Partial proceeds will be donated to organizations that support bereaved parents. Call 604-931-7211 to pre-register
VANCOUVER, BC
Bereavement Training for Professionals
When: For 7 weeks beginning Monday, March. 28th from 7 – 9 pm
Living Through Loss Counselling Society of BC will be providing training for social workers, teachers, funeral home employees, school counselors, crisis workers, therapists, palliative care nurses, or any individual who wants to explore bereavement issues related to their clients.
Cost:$375.00 (limited enrollment)
For more information, please call Living Through Loss Counselling at 604-873-5013
Location: #206- 1651 Commercial Drive ( 1st and Commercial), Vancouver
LOWER MAINLAND, BC
CANADIAN RED CROSS FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM is looking for volunteers.
Training dates: April 2 and April 30(Saturday 9:30am to 4:30pm),
April 5,12,19,26 and May 10 (Tuesdays 6:15pm to 9:15pm)
Sensitive, friendly, empathic, non-judgemental, reliable men and women who would like to Contribute 100 hours per year to offer emotional support and practical assistance to families whose children have been admitted to BC Children’s Hospital with chronic or life threatening illness. A second language is an asset. In turn, volunteers will receive 50 hours of professional training, mentorship, a variety of placement opportunities, on-going in-service workshops and a
supportive network of fellow volunteers. * Certificate upon completion of 100 hours.
iiformation, contact Ginny Wong at 604-709-6618 or E-mail: ginny.wong@redcross.ca
VANCOUVER, BC
“Truth, Touch and Time: What Dying People Want” with Dr. David Kuhl
Thursday April 7, 2011 ~ 7:30 pm
Norman Rothstein Theatre - Jewish Community Centre
950 West 41st Avenue
604.737.7305 for tickets
or pick up at the Vancouver Hospice Society
(VHS) office @ 3470 Dunbar Street.
Tickets are $25
All proceeds will help build our new Hospice Home on Granville Street.
VANCOUVER, BC
The Widowed Journey Group for Widows
Thursdays, April 7 – May 26, 2011
Participants have the opportunity to meet others who have lost a partner and who want to learn more about the emotional, social and financial changes that follow this life-altering event. Led by a professional facilitator and a trained peer widow, the series offers a personally supportive environment and provides opportunities to develop new skills, foster mutual support and explore new meanings and purpose.
UBC Robson Square, Downtown Vancouver
Course: LC701S11A
$ 85.00 plus HST
lifeandcareer.ubc.ca
604-822-8740
BURNABY, BC
Caregiver Education Series
Apr 24 for 6 Saturdays, 10am-12pm
A 6 week program: community resources, navigating ‘the system’, housing options, dementia,
end of life care, and more. Free for unpaid family caregivers.
To register, call 604.734.3054 or email eldercareconsulting@yahoo.ca
Free program of BURNABY SENIORS OUTREACH SERVICES SOCIETY
BURNABY, BC
2nd Annual Burnaby Family & Friends Unpaid Caregivers
FREE INFORMATION FAIR
Sat., April 30, 2010, 10 am-2 pm
Bonsor Community Centre, 6550 Bonsor
To register call 604.734.3054 or email eldercareconsulting@yahoo.ca
Free program of BURNABY SENIORS OUTREACH SERVICES SOCIETY
VANCOUVER, BC
BC Hospice Palliative Care Association’s Annual Conference:
“New Horizons: Adapting to Change”
Thursday and Friday, May 12 and 13, 2011
Featuring Glenda Standeven “Choosing to Smile”; Elizabeth Causton, MSW ”Self Care for Caregivers” and, in partnership with Kearney Funeral Services, special guest speaker on May 13th for a full day workshop, Dr. Alan Wolfelt, PhD,CT, internationally renowned author, speaker and thanatoligist on “Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Death, Grief and Mourning” and “Helping Children and Teens Cope with Grief”
For Conference Registration: visit www.hospicebc.org
For One day only with Dr. Alan Wolfelt: visit www.kearneyfs.com
VANCOUVER, BC
Hospice Foundation of America’s “Living with Grief: Spirituality and End of Life Care”
(formerly a live, satellite teleconference, now an Educational Program with their specially-produced DVD) made available by registration with viewing rights by Kearney Funeral Services and in cooperation with the Palliative Care Unit and Spiritual and Multifaith Services of VGH
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Paetzhold Theatre, Jim Pattison Pavillion, VGH
Check-in at 10:30 am
Presentation at 11:00 am – 1:30 pm with Lunch provided (no charge compliments of Kearney’s)
Follow-up discussion with local professionals
No fee but please register as space is limited.
www.kearneyfs.com
or call 604-736-0268
VICTORIA, B.C.
Public screening of Griefwalker
Saturday & Sunday WORKSHOP
Friday, June 1st, 2011 7 pm–10 pm
all details to follow
contact@orphanwisdom.com
HOLLYHOCK RETREAT CENTRE
CORTES ISLAND, BC
July 10-15, 2011
Homecoming: An Apprenticeship to the Mandatory Arts of Living and Dying Well We begin the life-long journey home not by self reliant freedom 55 plans, but by learning the skills of village life – a grief soaked love of being alive, deep indebtedness to ancestors and to the world – and teaching them to our young people. This is an apprenticeship to deep living, to radical health of the soul, to the detailed making of a better day.
To register call: 800-933-6339×232 or
250-935-6576 – registration@hollyhock.ca
