The Solace Tree — For grieving kids, teenagers and households
Register for session 20 (Eventbrite)
2-3:30 p.m. in JCSU 422
The affect of loss on kids and youths is nicely documented and impacts college efficiency, relationships, and an understanding of life. How kids and youths are supported by loss of life and different losses of their lives will form how they reply to grief and loss as an grownup. On this 90-minute presentation, the members will study classes realized from hundreds of households who’re grieving the loss of life of 1 cherished one, grief teams in colleges, develop a greater understanding on the way to talk with grieving kids, teenagers, and adults (throughout and after a loss) to higher present an acceptable dialog, presence, and help. Under are some subjects to be mentioned however not restricted to every presentation: On the completion of this presentation, members will be taught:
- Classes realized / Accomplishments – 20 years of grief help;
- The Good Grief Venture;
- Rules of childhood, teen, and grownup grief;
- The loss of life of a kid, teen, mother or father, workers member;
- Suicide is everyone’s enterprise; and an
- Interactive dialogue (Q & A).
In regards to the speaker: Emilio Parga is the Founder and Govt Director of The Solace Tree in Reno, Nevada, offering grief and loss help for youngsters, teenagers, and adults. Over the previous 20 years, he has coordinated help teams at The Solace Tree in addition to 4 College Districts in Nevada, offering on-site help to workers, households, companies and firms, and college students who’ve been recognized in danger, via the Good Grief Venture that he particularly created for Ok-12 college students. He’s a former lecturer for the College of Nevada, Reno within the School of Schooling and Adjunct/Medical College for the Nevada College of Drugs instructing programs on loss of life and dying and serving to kids and youths deal with loss of life and All loss. A nationwide speaker, Emilio serves as a bereavement guide/coach to native colleges, social providers, hospitals, funeral houses, and companies. Working alongside first responders and with households, following traumatic occasions akin to 9/11 (2006), Reno Air Races (2011), the IHOP taking pictures (2011), the Aurora movie show taking pictures (2012), the Sparks Center College taking pictures (2013), and the Las Vegas taking pictures (2017). Emilio has gained beneficial perception and expertise in aiding communities within the aftermath of tragic occasions. As a Pediatric Thanatologist, Emilio has authored a number of books on grief and loss for each kids and youths promoting nationally and internationally. Emilio has co-founded 4 grief facilities in Nevada and one in New York. He’s a member of The Nationwide Alliance for Kids’s Grief.
