Grief Support Training

Death In The Field Guidelines
Death Notification

Sacramento, CA     

• Perspectives: Historical and Social
• Cultural, ethnic, gender sensitivity
• Legal Issues
• Scene Guidelines: Death Notification, Immediate Grief Reactions, What to say, What not to say, Recruiting Help, Answering Questions, Viewing and Touching the Body, Funeral Information, Organ & tissue donor Information, Coroner's/M.E.'s Case, Using Brochures and Handouts (English/Spanish), Leaving the Scene, follow-up.
• Provider Stress

Material Included

• Laminated pocket guide
• Basic course manual with reference materials regarding additional subjects such as: suicide, homicide, accidental death, dying, line of duty death, DNR, working with children, elders, stress.

Course Objectives

• Students will learn the basic Standard of Care.
• Students will learn how to provide sensitive death acknowledgement/announcement
• Students will learn the basics of cultural competency.

• Teaching the Standard of Care
• Supportive research
• Classroom topics - "the nuts and bolts"
• Importance of leaving brochures (English and Spanish) with family, printed with agency logo/information
• Limits to classroom presentations

Materials Included

• Train the Trainer's Manual
• Reproducible brochures/handouts (English and Spanish) to be given to on-scene family regarding grief, funeral practices and , if a coroner's case, coroner information. These brochures can be modified.
• View graphs in PowerPoint for presentations from one hour to multiple hours

Course Objectives

• Students will learn research information regarding acute grief and how we interact with people.
• Students will be able to go back to their agency and teach a fundamental class.
• Students will know how to modify brochures and handouts to fit their geographic area.

TTT students first attend the basic course (included in cost) and will receive all the basic course materials and training as stated above. On the second day, participants will receive a TTT manual and access to reproducible brochures and handouts regarding grief, funeral information and coroner law, plus a PowerPoint presentation that covers the basics for the class.

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