Amelia Center: 2025 Annual Spring Bereavement Workshop

Friday, April 4, 2025, 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM, Vestavia Civic Center 1090 Montgomery Hwy, Vestavia Hills, AL 35216

Meals and Snacks: Please note that a chicken biscuit breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided throughout the day.

The Amelia Center’s 17th Annual Spring Bereavement Workshop
Sponsored by: The Aderhold Family Foundation



Featured Topic: Creative Interventions for Grieving Children, Youth, and Families

Featured Presenter: Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S

The use of play and arts-based interventions creates an engaging context for addressing the unique needs of children and youth who are grieving.

Join award-winning author and international speaker Liana Lowenstein, as she equips you with the knowledge and tools needed to work effectively with children, teens, and families who are grieving the dying or death of someone significant in their life.

You will learn up-to-date grief theory, an innovative assessment model, and a variety of creative techniques to help children, youth, and families impacted by drug overdose, suicide, homicide, mass violence, military/line-of-duty casualties, natural disaster, serious illness, and other types of loss. Creative interventions for anticipatory grief will also be presented. The activities are adaptable for use in various settings, including mental health, schools, hospice care, support groups, and grief camps.

Recognizing the pivotal role caregivers play in supporting their grieving children, this training will also provide valuable tips and guidance to equip caregivers with sensitive and age-appropriate methods for discussing death with their children and helping them grieve in a healthy way.

This training is designed for both beginning and experienced grief care providers seeking new and innovative ways to assist children, youth, and families in navigating their grief journey.

Handouts:
presentation handout (PDF)
resource handout (PDF)

1. Explain key concepts such as anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, suffocated grief, traumatic grief, prolonged grief disorder, the dual process of grief, and the Tiered Model of Bereavement Services.
2. Identify the core tenets of grief informed practice.
3. Describe key guidelines for talking with children about dying and death and supporting them through the process of a family member who is dying.
4. Implement an innovative model for assessing bereaved children, youth, and families.
5. Apply a variety of creative activities to help children, youth, and families impacted by drug overdose, suicide, homicide, mass violence, military casualties, natural disaster, serious illness, and other types of loss.
6. Utilize innovative activities to open communication between children and their caregivers.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE – March 27, 2025

Continuing Education Credit:

NBCC Provider # 6193* (6 Total Contact Hours)

AL Social Workers Provider # 0354 (6 Clinical Hours)

Others may apply for credit through their accreditation boards.

All participants will receive a certificate of attendance via email.

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Meals and Snacks: Please note that a chicken biscuit breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided throughout the day.

* The Amelia Center of Children’s of Alabama has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6193. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Amelia Center of Children’s of Alabama is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

CANCELLATION POLICY
Registrants who notify The Amelia Center in writing of their cancellation on or before the early registration deadline date will receive a 100% refund of the registration fee. Those who cancel after the early registration deadline, but before the workshop date, will receive a refund of 50% of the registration fee. Organizations may send a substitute attendee if the original registrant is unable to attend. No refunds will be issued on or following the workshop date.

Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners Credit - Clinical (6.00 hours), National Board for Certified Counselors - NBCC Credit (6.00 hours)

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