Training and Education for Professionals

The KinderMourn staff is pleased to offer educational workshops, community presentations, and in-service training for professionals seeking additional information on parental and childhood bereavement.  Training sessions can be designed to suit your group's particular needs. Following is a list of suggestions for training:

Understanding Grief

For professionals who wish to reexamine the grief process and to identify both normal and complicated grief patterns. 

Helping Grieving People

Responding to individuals in grief is difficult, particularly when we, in the helping profession, believe we must help decrease the pain. This workshop will explore some do's and don'ts in offering support to grieving people.

For Professionals:  Handling Our Grief

Professional helpers often experience difficult grief reactions as well as symptoms of burnout.  This workshop explores ways professionals can handle grief arising from their work with others as well as attend to themselves in a manner that will prevent burnout. 

Helping Children Cope With Grief

A workshop designed for professionals who wish to explore the ways in which children's grieve and also to examine techniques for helping them.

Perinatal Loss: Strategies for Professionals

Designed for health care workers and other professionals who help parents cope with miscarriage, stillbirth, and newborn death, this workshop will include a presentation about the uniqueness of perinatal loss as well as a discussion about what we can do to help.

KinderMourn Presentation

An information session designed to give professionals an understanding of KinderMourn services and procedures for accessing those services. A short video is available followed by a discussion about parental and childhood bereavement.

Living Through The Holidays

At a time when there are signs of happiness all around, grieving families find holiday times filled with loneliness, fear, and sadness.  This workshop will focus on ways to help families manage the holidays in ways that give them a sense of control. 

When Grief Visits Schools

Special  inservice training will be designed for school personnel to address all or a combination of the following topics: developing  a crisis response plan, understanding grief reactions of children, identifying children's developmental understanding of death, learning crisis intervention strategies and techniques, learning how to help students after the death of a classmate, and identifying the need for outside intervention.