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Upcoming Training:

Join us for Spring Trainings offered in collaboration with Sweetser Training Institute:

Register at www.sweetsertraining.org 

Serving an Intercultural Community: Promoting Healing in the Face of Individual and Collective Loss

May 30, 2013 | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.)

Growing diversity in our communities and arrival of immigrants and refugees from many different countries presents a challenge and an opportunity to create effective, inclusive, and empowering programs. In this half day workshop, you will learn how to provide support to diverse communities through the creation of safe, culturally relevant, and creative programming.

Instructor: Marie Sheffield 

Training and Consultation

Center for Grieving Children Training

The Center for Grieving Children is a leader in the field of children's grief support and the use of the Volunteer Peer Support Model, including peer support with a multicultural population and families facing serious illness.  Our experienced and knowledgeable staff provides training and consultation to other children's grief support programs, summer camps, hospice workers, schools, health care providers, churches and other youth serving organizations.

"I could not have been more impressed with the integrity of The Center for Grieving Children, the training and the staff."     - Volunteer Facilitator Trainee

Fall and Spring Institutes:

A series of workshops on topics related to children and grief.  Offerings changes annually

"This fabulous training experience laid the groundwork for us in giving us a model to follow in our subsequent trainings. We still draw from and reflect on that experience in order to inform ourselves further, as do our volunteers." -Pat Smith, Co-Director The Alcove - Center for Grieving Children and Families, N

Consultation

Speak directly with one of our trainers to answer your specific questions and concerns.  Consultation is available for $125 an hour.

"Fantastic, I have experienced and lead many workshops and trainings my whole professional career—this is among the most thoughtful, intentional, compassionately and competently delivered  that I have ever participated in.  Thank you" -- Jim Douglas Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice

Training for your Site

We will travel to your site, locally or nationally and deliver a professional, engaging and informative training that is customized to meet your goals and objectives.  Common topics include

  • Understanding and supporting grieving children and teens
  • Helping families facing serious illness
  • Reflective Listening 
  • Peer support model
  • Crisis planning for schools and other organizations
  • The impact of grief on the workplace
  • Group facilitation skills
  • The purposeful use of activities with groups
  • Complete volunteer training in the peer support model
  • Collective loss such as war and natural disaster
  • Multicultural approaches to grief and loss
  • The use of art and expressive modalities with children and groups

We look forward to customizing a training to meet your needs.  Please contact Susan Giambalvo for more information at (207) 775-5216 or email her at

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