This year’s free CE program, through the Hospice Foundation of America, offers 1.5 free CE credits available to attendees online through the HFA after the event.

The Challenge of Caring: Working with People Facing Grief, Loss, and Death

This complimentary program will be offered as an educational video presented at three Phaneuf locations in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Supporting the People Who Care for Others

Working with people confronting grief, trauma, and tragedy is an intensely personal endeavor – one that carries well-documented risks for practitioners, including burnout, moral distress, and compassion fatigue. Yet current research and clinical wisdom show that the demands of this work can be managed effectively and may even promote personal and professional growth. Drawing on recent developments in positive psychology, neuroscience, and contemporary psychotherapy, this program presents evidence-based strategies to strengthen emotional resilience, sustain meaningful self-care, and enhance clinical effectiveness.

The program is primarily for professionals already working in the field but is practical for all levels of education – entry level, intermediate or advanced. Health care clinicians, social service clinicians and others working in the hospice, palliative care, counseling, hospital, nursing home, funeral home, or faith community environments can all benefit from this program.