Hospice Foundation of America
E-Newsletter
Volume 7, Issue 2
February 2007
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
In this issue:
- Message from David Abrams, President/CEO
- Focus on: Interview with George Kelder, New Jersey Funeral Service Education Corporation
- Sponsors and Partners of HFA Telelconference
- HFA's Newest Publication
- HFA's 14th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
- What's New @ HFA
- Upcoming Conferences and Educational Opportunities
- Site Coordinator's Corner
Message from David Abrams, President/CEO
On March 22, HFA will broadcast our 14th annual National Bereavement Teleconference. Living With Grief®: Before and After the Death, will explore the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. Understanding grief and its impact is core to the hospice philosophy, and we look forward to a stimulating and enlightening examination. If you are interested in attending but cannot host a site, we urge you to go to our website to find a site near you.
We are very grateful to this year's teleconference sponsors for their support of this year's program, and have listed them in this issue. Please visit their websites. We were pleased to speak with George Kelder of the New Jersey Funeral Service Education Corporation, who is piloting an interesting program to help foster relationships between funeral directors and other professionals both before and after death.
If you are hosting a site for this year’s program, did you know that HFA now offers the teleconference via satellite AND webcast? Using a webcast to bring the teleconference to your community may offer you opportunities that are not available with the satellite system. Click here to learn more about the technical requirements.
Focus on: Interview with George Kelder, New Jersey Funeral Service Education Corporation
The title of this year’s teleconference, Living With Grief®: Before and After the Death, recognizes the need to support families throughout the process of illness and loss. In a recent interview with George Kelder, the discussion focused on the important role that funeral directors can play in this process. “By working with other professionals such as hospice staff, funeral directors can provide a more comprehensive, supportive system of care. Ultimately, families are better served when allied professionals come together to assist them during this most difficult journey.”
Sponsors and Partners of HFA Teleconference
The Foundation for End of Life Care
The Foundation for End-of-Life Care, a not-for-profit organization
established by VITAS Healthcare Corporation, was created to improve
end-of-life care for individual patients and their families, while
supporting fundamental societal change.
The New Jersey Funeral Service
Education Corporation
The
NJSFDA is committed to building strong relationships with caring
professionals throughout the state. Our affiliate education foundation,
The New Jersey Funeral Service Education Corp., (NJFSEC) is a major
sponsor of the Hospice Foundation of America's 2007 National Bereavement
Teleconference. Through this and other outreach efforts, the NJFSEC is
seeking to promote the ideals of Knowledge Based Funeral Service, which
presumes that their is great value to be found in the relationships
funeral directors have with those in other professions.
In addition, HFA produces the teleconference in cooperation with:
The Adventist Communications Network,
is the satellite media distribution service for the North American
Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. If you need to locate a
satellite facility in your area to host the teleconference, call the
Adventist Communication Network: they will help you contact your local
Seventh Day Adventist Church (1-800-226-1119), which makes its
facilities available at no charge.
The Association for Death Education and
Counseling
The Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC) is one of the
oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and
bereavement. Its nearly 2,000 members include a wide array of mental and
medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and
volunteers. ADEC offers numerous educational opportunities through its
annual conference, courses and workshops, its certification program, and
via its acclaimed newsletter, The Forum.
The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support
organization that offers friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved
parents, grandparents and siblings. Chapters across the country provide
monthly meetings, phone contacts, lending libraries and a local
newsletter. The national organization provides newsletters, distributes
grief-related materials, and answers requests for referrals and
information.
The National Association of Social
Workers
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in
the world, with 150,000 members. NASW works to enhance the professional
growth and development of its members, to create and maintain
professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.
This year we have chosen health as our focus for Social Work Month 2007
[March]. The National Association of Social Workers is tuned into the
pulse of the profession and knows that this is an important area of
practice that affects millions of people.
The Department of Veterans Affairs
Employee Education System,
is committed to providing its employees with the training and education
they need to provide outstanding service to veterans and other eligible
customers.
For the first time, Hospice Foundation
of America requested artwork from hospices nationwide for the 2007
teleconference, Living With Grief®:
Before and After the Death. Hospice
patients, family members, caregivers, hospice professionals and
volunteers produced submissions. Hospice Foundation of America has
chosen the artwork, “Woven Memories,” from Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice
in Wichita, Kansas to be displayed as a cover image for our 2007 Living
With Grief® companion book.
This is the first time in 14 years of publishing a book on end-of-life care that HFA has elected to have a contest for its cover art. Submissions that were made to HFA included works produced by hospice patients, family members, caregivers, and hospice professionals and volunteers. We wish to thank all the participants who sent in these wonderful works.
The book will be available at a discounted price to those organizations that have registered as sites for the 2007 Teleconference. The book will be available for sale to the general public after March 22.
HFA’s 14th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
HFA’s 14th annual National Bereavement Teleconference, Living With Grief®: Before and After the Death, will be broadcast live Thursday, March 22, 2007 from 1:30--4:00pm EDT. This satellite and webcast teleconference, as well as the accompanying book, will explore the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. Panelists will discuss topics such as
• anticipatory grief and mourning
• meaning-making
• life review
• assisting families at the moment of death
• funerals, memorials, and other rituals and their importance in the
grieving process
• new insights and developments in our understanding of grief
• implications for practice, including effective interventions
• and the importance of self-care for professionals.
The program will be useful to a range of professionals who counsel persons who are bereaved including psychologists, counselors, clergy, social workers, nurses, case managers and other health care workers, and funeral directors, as well as educators, teachers and school-based personnel. The information will also be helpful to individuals who offer education on loss, grief, dying or death.
Frank Sesno, an Emmy-award winning
journalist, special correspondent with CNN and a faculty member George
Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, will
moderate the program, which
features panelists:
• Scott W. Bradley, MSW, CT, CFSP
• Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv
• Lorraine Hedtke, MSW, ACSW, LCSW
• Patricia Murphy, PhD, APN, FAAN
• Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD
• Robert Washington, PhD, MDiv
The teleconference discussion will include these segments.
HFA’s National Bereavement Teleconference will be seen in over 2000 communities across the US and Canada. To locate a site near you, just go to HFA’s online site map. Please be sure to contact the Site Coordinator listed to find out specifics about the program and CEU requirements at that particular site.
Teleconference site coordinators and/or attendees are encouraged to email their grief-related questions for the Living with Grief panelists to griefquestions@hospicefoundation.org. Questions will be accepted until March 1. Selected questions will be posed to panelists by the moderator. Names and organizations will be used unless otherwise specified. Please keep your questions limited to the subject of grief. There will not be a call-in number during the teleconference in an effort to expand panel discussion time.
Upcoming Conferences and Educational Opportunities
Registration has begun for The Association for Death Education and Counseling’s (ADEC) 29th Annual Conference, “Transformation and Creativity in Dying, Death and Bereavement.” The conference will take place April 12--April 15 in Indianapolis, IN. Go to the website for more information.
The Satellite Coordinates are now available on the site coordinator’s website at www.hospicefoundation.org/coordinator. Also available are the Live Webcast Test Links to test your internet connection. Please check the site coordinator’s website often, as new information will be posted as soon as it becomes available. Information to be posted soon includes the Teleconference Program and CE Packet.
Remember: HFA has launched its online book ordering for 2007 site coordinators. Ordering online is faster and easier than faxing in your order form! To order online, please use the link that may be found on the Site Coordinator’s Web site. Your username and password may be found on page 3 of your manual. Please keep your Site ID number handy when placing an order!
Order online and save! The discounted price for site coordinators is $14.00 per book (the cover price is $24.95). For site coordinators ordering books in multiples of 20, the price is further reduced to $12.00 per book. If ordering online, an even greater discount of $11.00 per book is available.
If you wish for your books to arrive before the broadcast, please place your order before March 8, 2007. The reduced price will also be available after the teleconference, until April 30, 2007. If you have any questions about the online order form, please contact us at 1-800-854-3402 or via e-mail at telecon@hospicefoundation.org.
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This newsletter is published by Hospice
Foundation of America
David Abrams, President/CEO
http://www.hospicefoundation.org/
Board of Directors: Thomas E. Bryant, MD, JD; Myra MacPherson; Priscilla Perry; Patricia Spulak; Thomas
Spulak
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Hospice Foundation of America 2007
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