Join CPMC for a discussion of holistic supports for youth re-entry with Angelina Alfaro, Alexis Marquez, and John Thomas of Curt's Café in Evanston and Highland Park, Illinois. The Curt's Cafe programming model utilizes the eight dimensions of wellness to deliver support services, collaborate with partners, and involve clients in their own care. Curt's Café…
Joyce Dixson-Haskett, a formerly trafficked/incarcerated person and sought-after author and clinical social worker, will discuss her book Level of Response to Traumatic Events. She will present tools for resiliency to equip families, lay people, and professionals alike in effectively helping and working with children and loved ones of incarcerated parents. Click here to register!
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics & The Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Join us at Georgetown University’s historic Main Campus for three days of stimulating conversation on bioethics with distinguished course faculty and with other participants from around the world. This year’s course explores: • theories and principles of bioethics, •…
Chicago’s Kolbe House is three blocks from the nation’s third largest US jail system. Kolbe House has substantially grown their programming to address our reentry clients’ material needs and, more importantly, their need for spiritual and emotional accompaniment during the early stages of reentry. Associate Director Deacon Pablo Perez and Pat Sullivan will share the…
Extremely often when patients move towards the end of their lives, important questions arise as to continuation of certain medical treatments. Patients who have Advanced Care Plans (ACPs, living wills etc.) provide keen insight as to what the patient’s desire would be in certain medical situations. Without such documentation family members are often required to make critical decisions for their loved ones under stressful conditions. Ethics Consults are often called in such situations to work with family members to clarify and aid in these difficult decisions. There are times when, due to guilt or fear on the family’s part, decisions are often delayed or made contrary to what is best for the patients. This webinar will provide information on ACPs, how to encourage this practice, and the implications of failure to have good information of patient’s needs at the EOL. The webinar will include case studies of incidents that have caused difficulties at the EOL and unnecessary medical support to patients at the EOL.
