Grief Workshop for parents and caregivers April 8

Posted April 7, 2021

The Workshop will be first and then we will have a School Council meeting starting at 8 pm using the same link.

This presentation is for parents and caregivers. Children can listen or watch but Dr. Brown will be using death appropriate language so parents need to know that. She won’t be gearing her language necessarily to kids.
Laura Brown, Ph.D., C.Psych.

Dr. Laura Brown is a registered Clinical Psychologist whose life work has primarily been to help pre-teen, teenage, and young adult individuals and their families struggling with a variety of mental health challenges. For the past 15 years Laura has provided therapy for a variety of learning, emotional, and mental health issues, as well as learning to cope with the challenges of living. However, her early training at a variety of health care settings also provided her with the unique ability to work with young people coping with physical, life-threatening, or chronic illness and/or pain, as well as children, adolescents, and their families coping with grief and bereavement. She started the Nightingale Centre for Grieving Children, Youth, and Families in 2019 as a dedicated non-profit centre to serve the grief and bereavement needs of children and youth in Guelph and Wellington County.

On April 8, 2021, Laura will address the Taylor Evans Public School community to talk about the needs of grieving children after the death in January of two of their schoolmates. This talk will include how children express or demonstrate grief, how to talk with children about death and dying, how to provide comfort to grieving children while helping them absorb the reality of the death of a peer, and what to watch for going forward. There will be time for questions following the 30-40 minute presentation.
Here is the link: https://meet.google.com/jws-znau-qzp?hs=122&authuser=0
Join by phone
‪(CA) +1 289-316-8689‬ PIN: ‪415 610 379‬#

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