“We wanted to enhance grief support with grief education.”
After a combined 24 years of working in the bereavement field as grief support facilitators, end-of-life companions, trainers and grief educators, Program Director and Board members, we wanted to bookend these with a grief education service offering.
And thus Ottawa Grief Care+ was created. It is here that we can couple [what we consider] the essential need to normalize grief conversations, with the provision of educational tools that will assist both people who are grieving themselves, and/or those supporting others in their grief.
EDUCATION and TRAINING
JANE DAVEY : certified as Grief Educator, Grief Support Facilitator, Trainer and End-of-Life Doula.
LAURIE RAIL : certified as a Thanatologist, Grief Educator, Grief Support Facilitator, Trainer, and End-of-Life Doula.
The facilitators and grief educators at Ottawa Grief Care+ have completed training under:
David Kessler: Grief Educator certification
Dr. Martha-Jo Atkins: Dying (D) School graduate
Douglas College: End-of-Life Doula certification
Centennial College: Thanatology degree
Champlain Hospice: Palliative Care Program
Bereaved Families of Ontario: Facilitator training
Edu-Therapy, Providing a Cognitive Behavioral Process to Relationship and Loss Resolution: Grief Educator certification
Crises & Trauma Resource Institute: Trauma Specialist training