Deepen awareness of the impact of ongoing loss on service-users, workers, and agencies.
Grief and Loss in Community Service Work
An instructor-led workshop that helps community service professionals respond to grief, loss, and transition in the workplace. Participants build assessment and intervention skills to support themselves, teams, and organizations, using grief-informed approaches to foster resilience, compassion, and healthy responses to ongoing loss.
Cost$140
LengthOne-Day
ModeInstructor Led, Live In-Person, Online
For many community agencies, managing death and loss is an unavoidable yet challenging aspect of the work. Whether through personal or professional experiences, workers in our sector regularly face the impact of death or significant life changes. Grief-informed policies, procedures, training, and interpersonal support can empower agencies to respond comprehensively to the challenges of ongoing loss and transitions, including the traumatic impact of death and other significant events.
This training will equip participants with essential assessment and intervention skills for supporting themselves, their teams, and their agencies in dealing with grief and loss. We will explore how managers and colleagues can collaboratively respond to loss events, creating healthy, resilient teams and workplaces. Through a combination of presentations, reflective activities, and group discussions, this course will address grief and loss in three key areas:
- Support for bereaved workers as individuals.
- Support for a team when death or loss impacts the workplace.
- Support for the organization during significant changes that generate loss/stress responses.
Instructor: Yvette Perreault
Target Group: All
Learning objectives
Understand diverse responses to traumatic grief and multiple loss in this sector.
Explore a theoretical framework for the impact of loss in marginalized communities and community agencies.
Investigate current coping strategies and resilience-building techniques in response to ongoing loss.
Learn effective Impact Debriefing techniques and structures for “Saying a Good Goodbye” to support workers and teams.
Learning outcomes
Gain insights into how multiple losses affect both individuals and organizations.
Develop an understanding of the diverse emotional responses to grief within a community service context.
Learn strategies for supporting individuals and teams through grief and loss events.
Equip yourself with practical tools and frameworks to respond to loss with resilience and compassion.