Posted by imagineaworldnj
Hosted by Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss and The Center for Life Transition
Date: | June 26, 2014 |
Start time: | 7:00 p.m. (EST) |
End time: | 9:00 p.m. (EST) |
Address: |
Rockin' Joe's 20 Prospect Place Westfield, NJ 07090 United States |
Free |
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About this Death Cafe
The mission of Imagine is to support children and their families coping with loss and to foster resiliency and emotional well-being for all those who grieve. We work towards normalizing grief in our society and creating resilient “Good Mourning” communities to support children and adults when they are grieving any type of loss.
About Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss and The Center for Life Transition
Welcome to Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss. We are committed to normalizing grief in our society and to that end, providing opportunities for conversations on grief and loss and death and dying. We are committed to creating a world where children coping with loss grow up emotionally healthy and able to lead meaningful and productive lives and where grief, loss and trauma are transformed into resiliency, empathy and compassion.
Imagine Death Cafe Facilitators are Mandi Zucker, MSW, Program Director, Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss: Mandi Zucker graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelors Degree in Child Development and Child Care and then earned her Master's degree in Social Work from New York University. She has extensive bereavement experience, starting with 11 years at JFK Haven Hospice in Edison, where she facilitated support groups for children and adults as well as provided individual support for terminally-ill patients and their families. She most recently worked as a facilitator at Gilda's Club in NYC, which is an agency that provides group counseling for patients and families affected by cancer.
Doreen Hall, RN: For the past 20 years, Doreen Hall has met the needs of individuals and their families in the challenges of illness and loss through her work as a clinical nurse specialist in palliative care, and as a loss and grief counselor and lecturer. Hall, who originates from the Northeast of England, set up a bereavement service in the United Kingdom, which was an unique model, incorporating professional leadership with harnessing the skills of volunteers to embed the service at the heart of the local community. This service was acknowledged as a beacon service in the Department of Health's End of Life Strategy.Hall graduated from Teeside University with BA (hons) in Palliative Care Nursing and qualified as a registered general nurse at Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing. She also has a district nursing qualification and teaching qualification.
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