Caring for the Continuum of Life: A Healthcare Symposium

Prince George's Community College 301 Largo Road, Largo, MD, United States

14 Learning Sessions 1 Inspiring Day Community members and professionals alike are invited to join us for a FREE informative day to increase your understanding of the many facets of aging, caregiving, and planning. Social Work CEUs available for some sessions. Please click the link below to visit our Symposium website where you can read […]

Healing Arts Series — Informational Night

Chesapeake Life Center - John & Cathy Belcher Campus 90 Ritchie Highway, Pasadena, MD, US

How can the healing arts be a resource for you on your journey with grief? Join us each month for a discussion and activity. The first offering will be an informational night to learn more about the healing arts and how they can be a positive addition to your life. There is no charge for […]

Healing Arts Series — SoulCollage

Chesapeake Life Center - John & Cathy Belcher Campus 90 Ritchie Highway, Pasadena, MD, US

How can the healing arts be a resource for you on your journey with grief? Join us each month for a discussion and activity. February will introduce people to SoulCollage. Participant will create a series of collages to commemorate lost loved ones and to visually journal their grief process. The cost for this session is […]

Where Are You? Where Am I? An Exploration of the Grief Experience in Persons with Dementia

Chesapeake Life Center - Largo Office 9500 Medical Center Drive, Suite 250, Largo, MD, United States

Presenters:  Roberta Rook, LCPC, & Joy McCrady, LCPC, NCC Currently 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. Every 65 seconds, someone in the United States develops dementia and by 2050 almost 14 million people will live with the disease. Yet, grief in adults with dementia is not extensively understood nor researched, which creates limitations for […]

[POSTPONED] Emily Schindler Memorial Lecture

Owen Brown Interfaith Center 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD, United States

This event has been postponed. Please check back for more information as we hope to announce a new date in the coming weeks.  From Inequity Awareness to Social Action: Disrupting Disenfranchisement and Suffocated Grief in Marginalized Children and Adults This lecture will address historical and contemporary ways in which youth and families coping with loss […]

Free

Emily Schindler Lecture: Supporting Bereavement Among Marginalized Youth

Online 90 Ritchie Highway, Hospice of the Chesapeake, Pasadena, MD, United States

Please join us for our Annual Emily Schindler Memorial Lecture, a live, interactive webcast. This year's topic is on Supporting Bereavement Among Marginalized Youth. The speaker, Dr. Tashel C. Bordere, PhD, CT, will discuss culturally conscientious practice, suffocated grief, and foundational concepts related to grief with attention to the Covid-19 pandemic and social unrest. In […]