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Previously recorded webinars
Air Canada Foundation: Fall 2024
Cynthia Vallance, Patient and Family Engagement Advisor
A- Fostering Engagement: Empowering Youth to Guide Change
Cynthia Vallance, Patient and Family Engagement Advisor with Youth Advisors Caila and Katelyn at BC Children's Hospital
Air Canada Foundation: Fall 2024
Cristina Chandri, CCLS & Wren Puckett, CCLS
A- You Can Do Hard Things:Defining the concept of traumatic stress and advocating for emotional safety in the healthcare setting
You Can Do Hard Things: Defining the concept of traumatic stress and advocating for emotional safety in the healthcare setting. Repeated exposure to traumatic healthcare events can lead to lifetime consequences for a person’s developmental, emotional, and behavioral health. Traumatic stress is commonly present in the healthcare setting when patients and families enter a situation, not knowing what to expect or how to best prepare for the experience. In moments of distress, it can be very difficult to identify what strategies will help reduce that stress while simultaneously navigating the healthcare experience. This webinar will address the concepts of traumatic stress, emotional safety and identify different strategies a patient and their support system can use to advocate for their emotional safety within the healthcare setting.
Fall 2021
Barbara Rubel, MA, BCETS, D.A.A.E.T.S
Compassion Fatigue and Resilience Among Child Life Specialists and Health Care Professionals
This webinar will focus on ways to mitigate the impact of job burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. Child Care Specialists will understand a framework that strengthens their positive coping methods. Objectives: As a result of this webinar, participants will be able to: 1. Describe compassion fatigue and various trauma 2. Describe eight ways to mitigate the impact of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma 3. Identify character strengths to build personal resilience Barbara Rubel, MA, BCETS, D.A.A.E.T.S. is an author and keynote speaker on increasing skills and strengths that improve the ability to handle job burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma. She received a BS in Psychology and MA in Community Health with a concentration in thanatology from Brooklyn College and is a Board-Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. Her website is www.griefworkcenter.com Support by Air Canada Foundation
Fall 2022
Dr. Jenny Chabot
Manage Ambiguous Loss: Finding Meaning & Validation in the Many Losses of Hospitalization.
Ambiguous loss (AL) can involve death and non-death related losses. According to Pauline Boss, "with ambiguous loss, there is no closure; the challenge is to learn how to live with the ambiguity." This presentation will discuss the key principles of ambiguous loss, and family stressors where AL has been linked. It will also provide an overview of the presenter's research, and the main themes identified through her interviews with child life specialists (n=33) who reported AL in patients, parents/caregivers, siblings, and in themselves/staff. Implications for child life practice will be examined.
Recording 2021
Jo-Anne Robertson MPH
Keeping the Babies in Mind; Infant Mental Health and Child Life
This webinar will review of the fascinating topics of infant mental health and early brain development. Child life professionals working with infants, toddlers and preschoolers will have the opportunity to consider implications of these concepts in their practice. Video examples, time for questions and answers, and opportunities for reflection will be provided. Jo-Anne Robertson MPH, is a former certified child life specialist who worked in both the USA and Canada with chronically ill children of all ages. Later she began therapeutic work in the community with young and vulnerable families and their preschool children. After receiving her Master's of Public Health with a focus on early child development as a social determinant of health, she has been able to pursue her passions of infant mental health and optimal early child development at a population level.
Recording 2022
Laura Breau M.A., CCLS, CIMI-2
Child Life Strategies for Supporting Autistic Children and Youth
Join Laura Breau, M.A., CCLS, CIMI-2, as she shares practical tools and tips to support Autistic children and youth during health care experiences.
Recording 2022
Dr. Christine Wekerle
Child Maltreatment and Resilience Journey
This presentation will provide participants with: 1. an overview of definitions and prevalence of child maltreatment; 2. signs of maltreatment; 3. important factors in the assessment of child maltreatment and; 4. factors promoting day-to-day resilience in maltreated youth.
Recording 2022
Erinn Pinard, MSc. CCLS, CYC and Akila Dada, CCLS, OCT, MSc. Candidate
Mental Health Matters: Spotlighting the Role of Child Life Services; supporting children and youth living with eating disorders
This webinar explores the perfect storm created between Covid-19 and a rising eating disorder population. Two Child Life Specialists will reflect on their patient population, changing role, creative interventions and daily activities that showcase a unique skill set of Child Life Specialists within a Children’s Hospital.
Recording 2023 or prior
Eleanor Haley, M.S. and Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C
Helping Grieving Families through Ritual and Continuing Bonds
In 1996, Klass, Silverman, and Nickman shed light on an important bereavement concept in the book Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief. Their work questioning linear models of grief that are supposed to lead to things like acceptance, detachment, and new life suggested a paradigm in which it is normal for the bereaved to continue their bond with the deceased. This webinar will review the theory and research surround children’s normal grief reactions and grief/re-grief across developmental stages. It will offer practical tools for applying continuing bonds theory to both direct work with children, as well working with families to lay a foundation and framework for coping with grief as a family unit in the coming months and years.
