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Best Practices for Death Notifications

Join us at 4377 Seymour Hwy for a comprehensive workshop on handling death notifications with sensitivity and professionalism. Learn from experts in the field and gain valuable insights on how to approach this challenging task with compassion and empathy. Whether you are a healthcare professional, first responder, or social worker, this event is designed to equip you with the best practices for delivering difficult news in a respectful manner. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your skills and make a positive impact in the lives of others.

Best Practices for Death Notifications

Course Outline

Students will learn how to appropriately give death notifications. We explore how to recognize and assess the emotional state of those receiving a death notification before, during and after hearing such news. Special focus is given to pre-notification strategic planning; common grief and trauma responses typcially seen; providing immediate appropriate care; and, utilizing adequate resources for ongoing care.

This course is designed for emergency services personnel and chaplains.

Course Highlights

• Necessary preparations before giving death notifications
• Strategic planning and tactics for death notifications
• Assess the scene – awareness, safety and triage
• How to approach those about to receive bad news
• Giving the death notification
• Trauma reactions commonly seen
• Managing trauma
• Immediate care and resources

Fran Graham has extensive crisis management experience in her home country of England, the United States, and internationally in both crisis deployments and crisis management instruction. With an extensive background in Law Enforcement, Community Emergency Response Training, International Disaster Relief, Fire and Police Chaplaincy, Critical Incident Stress Management, and the medical field, she provides a wealth of knowledge and expertise that she uses to support those in crisis and psychological trauma.

Fran has worked in several nations as an interventionist, educator, and consultant for both governmental and non-government agencies, to establish emotional health intervention support systems in times of war, refugee crises and following natural disasters. She serves individuals, groups, crisis response teams and communities, and has trained and deployed with multijurisdictional Critical Incident Stress management (CISM) and Peer Support teams with public fire & law enforcement agencies and faith-based chaplaincy programs, for whom she was a key author for written policies and operations guidelines which have been used nationally. She also works with multiple fire and police agencies, hospitals, and corporations in the United States as a consultant, instructor, and team member, to implement strategies of resilience to trauma for first responders actively working in the field.

As a published author and well-respected instructor in her field, she trains others to provide critical incident stress management support, emotional and spiritual care, to anyone in need. She has led emotional trauma specialist and disaster response teams through large- and small-scale crisis deployments such as the Oso & Montecito mudslides, Hurricane Sandy, and the Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting, and more recently, the war crisis in Ukraine. She also serves key government leaders in Europe who are actively seeking ways to rebuild the mental and emotional health following the huge influx of refugees. Her unyielding faith and passion has and will continue to guide our fellow human beings to acknowledge, manage, and process the serious and unforeseen impacts of crisis and trauma.

Fran’s command presence is eloquent, and profoundly personal that resembles a soulful conversation with a wise friend, even when she is speaking to communities, governments or teaching international courses. Her unending strength and faith to guide those in crisis is nothing short of inspiring. Fran's passion is to bring comfort amid deep pain, and to equip others with the necessary skills to recognize the signs and symptoms of their own acute stress or trauma. She empowers them to take responsibility for themselves, by implementing excellent, holistic, and proven, personal, self-care habits, to aid healing. Her extensive experience provides a wealth of knowledge and expertise that she uses to support those in crisis and psychological trauma on a path of resilience to ensure living and thriving, not just existing.

Host or Publisher Kayleigh Oliver