Community Serves

Education & Training

• Grief & Bereavememt

  Grief & Bereavememt

  

  • Understanding Grief & Bereavement
  • Understanding Children’s Grief
  • Adapting to Loss: Journey to Healing
  • Anticipatory Grief – Understanding Grief Before the Loss
  • How to Support Children Who Are Grieving
  • Ministry of Presence – Visiting the Sick or Dying
  • Bereavement Ministry Training – Developing or Building a Church’s Bereavement Services
  • Dementia: Use of Memory Aids
• Hospice

  Hospice

  

  • Hospice Myths, Misbeliefs and the Facts
  • Managing End of Life Issues – What I Needed to have “A Good Death”
  • Hospice and Palliative Care – Similarities and Differences
  • Spiritual Issues and End of Life – Understanding Spiritual the needs of the Terminally Ill
  • Veterans Care and Concerns Later in Life
  • Ministry of Presence – Visiting the Sick or Dying
• Advance Care Planning

  Advance Care Planning

  

  • Advance Care Planning – An Overview of Needed Information
  • Advance Care Planning Facilitation (completing the document). A session may be held at your facility
  • Training to become a certified Honoring Choices Facilitator
• Family Support

  Family Support

  

  • Caring for the Caregiver (“First, Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask”)
  • Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
  • Spiritual and Physical Aspects of Caring for a Family Member
  • Challenging Behaviors of the Person with Alzheimer or Advanced Dementia
  • Too Much Drama! Understanding Family Conflict and Communication
  • Helping the Bereaved – What to Say and What to Do
  • Tips for Communicating with a Person Experiencing Memory Issues or Dementia
• Community Serves Caregivers

  Community Serves Caregivers

  

  The Caregiver College meets the first and third Wednesday of each month from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Stephen R. Chapman Family Community Campus. Join us for these monthly workshops, which provide social and educational support for those caring for an adult or child with a serious chronic condition. Programs are free of charge. No registration is necessary. Please call Sisteria Simmons at 904.407.6464 for more information.

  Click here for upcoming dates.