Proposal Title
Lesley, HEARTplay and Cambridge Community Center: Partners Moving through Grief
Abstract
This presentation will provide a didactic introduction to the field of childhood grief. There are new initiatives to provide support to children who have experienced the death of a family member or friend. We will describe a team approach with Lesley faculty, graduate student interns, and Cambridge Community Center staff to build a community based–partnership to bring HEARTplay, an award–winning children’s bereavement program, to neighborhood centers in Cambridge. Through experientials, we will demonstrate some of HEARTplay’s trauma–informed activities.
Start Date
24-3-2017 5:40 PM
End Date
24-3-2017 6:30 PM
Presentation Type
Paper
Disciplines
Community-Based Learning | Community Health | Counseling | Family, Life Course, and Society
Lesley, HEARTplay and Cambridge Community Center: Partners Moving through Grief
U-Hall 3-101
This presentation will provide a didactic introduction to the field of childhood grief. There are new initiatives to provide support to children who have experienced the death of a family member or friend. We will describe a team approach with Lesley faculty, graduate student interns, and Cambridge Community Center staff to build a community based–partnership to bring HEARTplay, an award–winning children’s bereavement program, to neighborhood centers in Cambridge. Through experientials, we will demonstrate some of HEARTplay’s trauma–informed activities.
