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Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC)
http://www.adec.org

ADEC is an organization in the field of dying, death and bereavement. ADEC’s members consist of mental and medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors, and volunteers. ADEC offers numerous educational opportunities through its annual conference, courses and workshops, and its new certification program in thanatology: death, dying, and bereavement. This certificate program is recommended for persons who have a bachelors degree and at least two years of experience in a related field OR those with a masters or doctorate degree and one year of experience in a related field.

ADEC, with collaboration of several other organizations, now offer a new on-line national public education course "Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America" ( www.scu.edu/fow). “Finding Our Way” explores end-of-life issues. This course if free to the public. All the material can be found on the website. The course can be completed at one’s own pace and convience.

There are several educational CD ROMS that can be ordered.

Sturbridge Group
http://www.sturbridgegroup.com/training.html

Sturbridge Group offers several different types of bereavement training. Some seminars include:

The Sturbridge Group can also create custom seminar for specific organization to meet the needs of the organization while incorporating the mission of the Sturbridge Group. Some examples of seminars they have created are:

A workshop on suicide prevention and bereavement for an HIV support organization that had experienced the suicide of several clients.
A workshop on dealing with personal feelings of loss for staff at a cancer support organization.
A program for parents and teachers on suicide awareness and grief reactions after the suicide of a student at a local high school.
A workshop on dealing with bereavement issues in college age students for the clinical staff of a university counseling service.
A presentation on coping with grief during the holidays for employees of a high tech firm with several losses during the previous year.
A discussion of loss issues and ways to provide mutual support for a church congregation with multiple losses in a short period of time.
A workshop for supervisory staff at a home health agency on how to help line staff deal with grieving clients, and with their own experience of work-related loss.

Grieving Child.org: A Service of The Dougy Center
www.dougy.org/adult_training.html

The Dougy Center offers a wide variety of workshops and training sessions on helping grieving children. The program development trainings have helped start over 130 centers nationally and internationally. They also provide educational workshops for those working with grieving children in hospitals, schools, hospices, youth service organizations and mental health agencies across the nation.

The Summer Institute
On-Site or Phone Consultations
Trainings in Your Community
Understanding and Helping Grieving Children & Teens
Program Development
Group Facilitation Skills
Instructor’s Training
Successful Board Development & Fund-Raising for a Small Non-Profit
Crisis Plans for Schools and Community
When Violence Impacts a Community

To schedule or discuss a training or workshop, call or email Joan Schweizer Hoff, Associate Director: joan@dougy.org or toll free 866-775-5683

The Dougy Center also offers sites to help one understand:

How to help a grieving child (http://www.dougy.org/adult_grievchild.html)
How to help a grieving teen (http://www.dougy.org/adult_grievteen.html)
When death impacts your school (http://www.dougy.org/adult_impactsschool.html)
Kids & funerals (http://www.dougy.org/adult_kidsfunerals.html)

Madonna University: Certificate in Bereavement
http://madonna2.siteobjects.com/pages/certificateinbereavement.cfm

This graduate certificate can be obtained on-line. This certificate is recommended for students who wish to supplement an existing graduate degree in counseling, psychology, or social work (or related degree) with clinical knowledge and expertise in their work with grieving persons and families. It is also available as a cognate for student pursuing the master’s degree in hospice education at Madonna University.

One must complete the following three classes to satisfy the requirements for this certificate.

Grieving Family Systems
Complicated Grief and Related Disorders
Developing Comprehensive Bereavement Programs

Program in Bereavement Education
http://www.ccatraining.com/opening.htm

Bereavement Education is offered by the Canadian Centre for Advanced Training (CCAT) in conjunction with The Canadian Centre for Bereavement Education.

Classes are held on weekends in Toronto. An entire course is covered in two 6-hour sessions held that particular weekend. The different classes/modules are:

Introduction to Bereavement and Grieving Process
Developmental Stages
Spiritual, Philosophical & Cultural Issues
Loss within the Family
Variables and Risk that Affect Grief
Presentations, Workshops and Training Volunteers

For more information please contact:
The Canadian Centre for Advanced Training
180 Bloor Street West, Upper Concourse
Toronto, ON M5S 2V6
Phone: (416) 929-3396
Toll-Free: 1-877-270-8273
Fax: (416) 929-3504
Info@ccatraining.com
www.ccatraining.com

Program in Grief Counseling
http://www.ccatraining.com/opening.htm

Grief Counseling is offered by Toronto Advanced Professional Education in conjunction with The Canadian Centre for Bereavement Education. Classes are held on weekends in Toronto. Classes are held on weekends in Toronto. An entire course is covered in two 6-hour sessions held that particular weekend. The different classes/modules are:

Grief and Self
Counseling Techniques
Trauma and Grief
Complicated Grief
Therapy for Complicated Grief/Crisis Intervention
Special Losses
Practicum