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SUMMARY:2025 Training: Facilitating Grief Support Groups After Suicide or S
 ubstance-Use Death
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 "font-family: verdana\;"><strong style="font-size: 13px\;"><span style="fo
 nt-size: 14px\; color: #44687d\;"></span></strong></span></div>\n<div styl
 e="text-align: center\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px\; color: #44
 687d\;"></span></strong></div>\n<div style="text-align: center\;"><span st
 yle="font-size: 16px\; color: #44687d\;"><strong>FACILITATING GRIEF SUPPOR
 T GROUPS<br />\nAFTER SUICIDE OR SUBSTANCE-USE DEATH TRAINING</strong></sp
 an></div>\n<div style="text-align: center\;"><strong><span style="font-siz
 e: 16px\; color: #44687d\;"></span></strong></div>\n<blockquote style="mar
 gin: 0px 0px 0px 40px\; border: none\; padding: 0px\;">\n<div style="text-
 align: center\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px\; color: #000000\;">
 November 5 - 6\, 2025</span></strong></div>\n<div style="text-align: cente
 r\;"><strong style="text-align: left\; color: var(--main-font-color)\;"><s
 pan style="font-size: 16px\; color: #000000\;">Six (6) CEUs</span></strong
 ></div>\n</blockquote>\n<div style="text-align: center\;"><br />\n</div>\n
 <span style="color: #000000\;">This two-day training provides a foundation
  for facilitating mutual-help grief support groups for those who have lost
  a loved one to suicide or substance-use death. The program will discuss c
 haracteristics of this unique type of loss\, basic support-group facilitat
 ion and instruction to develop the skills helpful in addressing the needs 
 of the bereaved in a support group. While this program does not cover clin
 ical assessment or treatment\, mental health professionals are welcome to 
 attend. The training will use group discussion\, interactive presentation 
 and skill-building practice groups that employ role-playing to prepare the
  facilitators.</span><br />\n<br />\n<strong><span style="text-decoration:
  underline\; color: #366092\;">WHO SHOULD ATTEND?</span></strong><br />\n<
 span style="color: #000000\;">&bull\; Funeral directors\, clergy\, mental 
 health professionals and those who have been impacted by suicide or substa
 nce-use death who want to start a support group</span><br />\n<span style=
 "color: #000000\;">&bull\; Current group facilitators who want to strength
 en their skills\, stay up to date on the latest practices and explore issu
 es they have encountered while facilitating</span><br />\n<span style="col
 or: #000000\;">&bull\; People who have endured this type of loss of a love
 d one at least two years prior are also welcome to attend</span><br />\n<s
 pan style="color: #000000\;">&bull\; Non-clinicians who have prior experie
 nce participating in a support group</span><br />\n<br />\n<strong><span s
 tyle="text-decoration: underline\; color: #366092\;">GOALS OF TRAINING</sp
 an></strong><br />\n<span style="color: #000000\;">&bull\; To train partic
 ipants to organize and facilitate support groups for those bereaved by the
  death of a loved one from suicide or substance-use</span><br />\n<span st
 yle="color: #000000\;">&bull\; To strengthen participants&rsquo\; awarenes
 s of the impact of a suicide or substance-use death</span><br />\n<span st
 yle="color: #000000\;">&bull\; To build participants&rsquo\; group facilit
 ation skills</span><br />\n<span style="color: #000000\;">&bull\; To enhan
 ce participants&rsquo\; self-awareness and self-care skills</span><br />\n
 <br />\n<span style="text-decoration: underline\; color: #366092\;"><stron
 g>YOUR TRAINER</strong></span><br />\n<span style="color: #000000\;">Joann
 e L. Harpel\, MPhil\, JD</span><br />\n<br />\n<strong><span style="text-d
 ecoration: underline\; color: #366092\;">TRAINING AGENDA </span><span styl
 e="color: #366092\;">- </span><span style="color: #c00000\;">NOW OFFERED V
 IRTUALLY</span></strong><br />\n<span style="color: #000000\;"><strong>Wed
 nesday\, November 5</strong><br />\n</span>&bull\;<strong> Session 1:</str
 ong> 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.<br />\n&bull\; <strong>Session 2:</strong> 3:0
 0 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.<br />\n<br />\n<strong>Thursday\, November 6</strong><b
 r />\n&bull\; <strong>Session 1:</strong> 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.<br />\n&b
 ull\; <strong>Session 2: </strong>3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.<br />\n<br />\n<sp
 an style="color: #000000\;">If you have questions\, contact Kelly Deitz at
  <a href="mailto:kelly@nysfda.org"><span style="font-size: 14px\;">kelly@n
 ysfda.org</span></a> or 518-452-8230.</span><br />\n<br />\n<strong><span 
 style="text-decoration: underline\; color: #366092\;">COST</span></strong>
 <br />\n<span style="color: #000000\;">- NYSFDA Member: $50.00 per person<
 /span><br />\n<span style="color: #000000\;">- Non-Member: $100 per person
 </span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color: #000000\;"><em>This training is
  offered at a substantial discount thanks to the generous support of the N
 YS Tribute Foundation.</em></span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color: #000
 000\;">This training has been approved by the NYS Department of Health\, B
 ureau of Funeral Directing for 6 CEUs.</span><br />\n<p><span style="font-
 family: verdana\;"></span></p>
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