Pacific Southwest School and Mental Health Grief Readiness

Join us to get ready, together, to support ourselves, our staff, and each other during the holiday and winter season

As we begin the third year of the COVID endemic , there's an increasing need to develop infrastructure, policies, training, and awareness regarding grief sensitivity.

Ensuring your teams are grief literate, with a clear plan in place for how to navigate moments of grief-related absenteeism or presenteeism, is no longer a nice-to-have but a need-to-have when it comes to building strong organizational culture and effective team dynamics.

The Pacific Southwest MHTTC is partnering again, with the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement and the Workplace Resilience, an initiative of The Dinner Party, a national non-profit and leader in peer-led collective grief care; every staff person and member with The Dinner Party and our faculty has lived experience with grief, life after loss, and working in grief-centered workplaces.

Background

In Spring 2021 we hosted a pilot program entitled School Mental Health Grief Readiness Lab that built on the session that Workplace Resilience led at the MHTTC Grief Sensitivity Virtual Learning Institute in fall 2020.

What?

This November-December 2021, we open the program not only for school mental health providers, but also for the general mental health workforce in our region to learn together.

The output of this series will be an actionable and custom Grief Readiness Plan to be deployed in your departments and organizations so that you can better support the schools, staff, and students you serve.

When?

Open to our entire region, the School and Mental Health Grief Readiness Series is on November 18, December 2, December 9, December 16.^* All sessions are from 3-5 p.m. PT / 1-3 p.m. HT / 12-2 p.m. American Samoa (view your time zone).

*Note that December 16 is an optional session for open office hours with faculty for extended support.

6 CEUs are available through full participation in this series.

Register for the Grief Readiness Series by Monday, November 15, 2021