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Trainings for 2004/2005:
Washington State Trainings:
The Separation & Loss Service was awarded a Washington State VOCA Training Grant to design and complete state wide trainings on the management of complicated grief after criminal death in 2004&5 in collaboration with a local victims support agency.
The trainings were entitled, "Complications in Bereavement from Violent Death by Criminal Acts Including Terrorism", and were facilitated by Fanny Correa, MSW, CT of Separation and Loss Services, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and Jenny Wieland, Executive Director of Families and Friends of Violent Crime Victims.
Trainings were conducted at divergent regions throughout Washington State at the following locations:
Bellingham, WA - December 2, 2004
Silverdale, WA - Deccember 16, 2004
Tacoma, WA - January 13, 2005
Vancouver, WA - February 22, 2005
Kennewick, WA - March 31, 2005
Spokane, WA - May 11, 2005
Participant learning goals were:
- Who are secondary victims from violent death
- Traumatic grief and how it differs from "normal" grief
- Cultural and gender influences on traumatic grief
- Importance of rituals
- Issues regarding spirituality
- Different types of complications to bereavement
- Intrusions from other systems (second "assaults")
- Roles of advocates and clinicians and how collaboration benefits their mutual clients
- Case studies
- Importance of networking in Washington State
- Resources
Participation in the various sessions ranged from 15 to 35 persons, that included systems-based advocates, community-based advocates, and clinicians. At the time of completion, the program office published a resource directory with contact information for all the clinicians, system and community-based advocates, clergy and others who attended the trainings. All training participants were sent a copy of the resource directory to maintain a working network and facilitate the process of identifying trained professionals in the different regions.
Evaluation scores indicated that 96.46% of the training participants were highly satisfied.
Regional Trainings:
The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) under the U. S. Department of Justice awarded Separation & Loss Services a training grant entitled "Outreach and Support Beyond the Crisis."
The project goals were 1) to identify and implement four national trainings for mental health professionals, advocates, faith based leaders and other community service providers who serve the longer-term psychological consequences of violent death and terrorism in their communities; 2) develop a training curriculum to help participants to identify vulnerability and non-accommodation in family members after violent death and 3) identify those who serve victims of violent death and initiate the development of councils within each of the training regions to continue development of a more comprehensive and collaborative system of longer-term community outreach and spiritual and emotional support following the tragedy of violent death.
The project staff selected the four locations (Seattle, WA; San Diego, CA; Miami, FL; Washington, DC) for the trainings and began collaborating with regional organizations/partners to host the training events. National and regional experts were identified to serve as faculty members for an inclusive audience - clinicians, crisis counselors, first responders, victims' assistance, military, clergy, support groups and others.
In each of the regions we collaborated with regional partners to form a local planning committee of representatives from clergy, police department, victim advocates, children and adult intervention programs, State employee assistance program, and program staff. We identified experts/presenters for Disaster and Outreach, Spirituality and Support, Adult and Children Screening and Intervention, Compassion Fatigue and Resilience. The planning committees identified local existent community outreach and support services such as State and Federal response including National Transportation Safety Board, Mental Health and Clergy and the Military.
The presenters for each of the trainings, submitted training materials and handouts for review and for development of the final training curriculum.
General Overview
The four trainings were presented in four different cities over a two year period:
Seattle, Washington March 24 & 25, 2004
San Diego, California November 5 & 6, 2004
Miami, Florida March 18 & 19, 2005
Washington, D.C. September 29 & 30, 2005
Each training followed a similar two day training format, and several of the speakers presented at all four conferences. Each training included lectures, panel presentations, a live interview, and interactive exercises. Power-point projections, slides, audiotapes, overheads, and videotapes were used. All attendees received a conference notebook including biographies of the speakers and handouts for each of the presentations. In addition, resource tables were set up at each site with free brochures provided by participating agencies.
The following data summarizes the total results for all four trainings combined.
Total Conference Attendees: 417
Completed Evaluations:265 (64%)
General Feedback
The average overall rating for the trainings was 4.7 on the five-point scale shown below, with five being "excellent".
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The evaluations also provided guidance for the training curriculum that was a product of the grant project.
Training Curriculum: A detailed curriculum of the two day training was completed by project staff and submitted to the Office for Victims of Crime. The curriculum is to be distributed through the Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC) in the next year.
Trainings for 2007:
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Save the Date: May 25th & 26th, 2007
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"Community-Based Support After Violent Death:
National & International Collaboration Conference"
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We are happy to announce this two-day conference featuring national and international mental health clinicians who have joined in developing collaborative training and service models for community-based support after violent death. While the conference includes national experts, it features clinician/researchers from Palestine and Israel describing their recent collaboration in developing community-based protocols for outreach, support, intervention and shared research protocols in their respective communities.
This training is for mental health professionals interested in learning more about community-based collaborations and support after violent death.
Space is limited to 100 participants. The participation fee will be $120, and 12 continuing education credits will be offered.
We hope that you will be able to participate in this conference!
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Violent Death Bereavement
Interventions for an Emerging Field
One-Day Program, Saturday, January 19, 2008
Fee: $120, no refunds after Jan. 18
Please inquire about a student discount.
To enroll, use Section No. 063424
Time: 9:00am - 5:20pm
Location: Rm. MV27, Mission Valley Center
404 Camino Del Rio S., Ste. 102, San Diego
BRN, LMFTs and LCSWs: 7 hrs. CE credit
Flyer in PDF format 
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2008 Trainings/Registration
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Restorative Retelling: An Innovative Treatment for
Prolonged Grief After Violent Death
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Virginia Mason Medical Center's Separation and Loss Services will hold
a two-day national meeting in Seattle, Washington.
Restorative Retelling, a promising treatment intervention for complicated grief after violent death, has been applied at multiple national sites. This meeting featuring researchers/clinicians actively engaged in restorative retelling interventions after violent death will clarify the specific, restorative techniques for stabilization, commemoration, restorative re-exposure and meaningful reengagement.
The plenary lectures will focus on instilling resilience and spotlight creative innovations (journaling, poetry, drawing) in processing death imagery and the restorative potential of spirituality. A panel of clinicians working in various clinical contexts (school-based, home-based, district attorney's office, outpatient, grief centers, faith-based centers, prison and juvenile detention and post-disaster 9/11) will share their work, their triumphs and their challenges.
We welcome clinicians, clergy, first responders, victims' assistance and other providers who work with families after a sudden violent death.
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September 12 & 13, 2008 |
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Virginia Mason Medical Center,
Volney Richmond Auditorium
Seattle, Washington
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$50 |
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12 hours continuing education is offered to
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Restorative Retelling:
The Creative Mastery of Traumatic Grief
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September 12 and 13, 2008 |
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Volney Richmond Auditorium - Virginia Mason Medical Center |
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Separation and Loss Services, Virginia Mason Medical Center |
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Agenda
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| Friday, September 12 |
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| Restoring Resiliency |
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Registration |
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Introduction |
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Restoring Pre-Verbal Resiliency
(calming visual imagery & reeexposure) |
Ted Rynearson and Fanny Correa,
Separation and Loss Services,
Virginia Mason Medical Center |
| 10:00 - 10:45 am |
Restoring Verbal Resiliency |
Richard Gold, Pongo Publishing, WA |
| 10:45 - 11:00 am |
Break |
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| 11:00 - 12:00 pm |
Restoring Spiritual Resiliency
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Janice Lord, Consultant
Ramona Redwine, Consultant |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Lunch on your own |
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Retorative Retelling of Violent Death: Children |
Alison Salloum,
University of South Florida |
| 2:15 - 3:30 pm |
Restorative Retelling of Violent Death: Adults |
Connie Saindon,
Survivors of Violent Loss Network, CA |
| 3:30 - 3:45 pm |
Break |
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Restorative Retelling Post-911 Disaster |
Priya Shahani, CA |
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| Restorative Retelling - Creative Revisions for Divergent Sites |
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Ted Rynearson and Alison Salloum |
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Community Mental Health Center |
Dan Fox
Lutheran Community Services, WA |
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Intra-urban, Adult Minorities |
Beverly Jones,
Wendt Center, DC |
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Prosecuting Attorney's Office |
Beth Ann Holzhay,
Bronx District Attorney's Office,NY
Vilma Torres,
Safe Horizon, NY |
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Intervention in Prisons |
Anna Kotelnikova and Katia Ramira, Purdy Women's Correctional Center, WA. |
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Lunch (on your own) |
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Restorative Retelling with Children |
Alison Salloum |
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Restoring Spirituality |
Janice Lord, Ramona Redwine |
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Restorative Writing |
Richard Gold |
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Restorative Exercises |
Ted Rynearson, Connie Saindon,
Fanny Correa |
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Break |
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Termination Techniques
Ending with Resilience |
Ted Rynearson |
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Resilience and Restorative Retelling: A Full-Day Workshop*
Location: Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Traumatized individuals often "relive" their traumas as recurring, privately processed narratives of terror and helplessness. Roughly 20 percent of traumatized individuals remain fixated on these uncontrollable, intrusive inner narratives for months or years. Yet retelling these stories can help "normalize" and diminish the intense emotions associated with these memories. While the narrative memory is never extinguished, it no longer dominates.
This workshop gathers clinicians and researchers who have used restorative intervention to treat subjects with prolonged grief after violent death. The lectures and demonstrations will clarify the conceptual model of restorative retelling, emphasizing the first stage (resilience reinforcement) of the intervention and its application in different settings.
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Morning Presentations
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
10:25 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
"Resilience Reinforcement and Restorative Retelling - Children and Adults"
Alison Salloum, PhD, LCSW; Janice Lord, MSW; Fanny Correa, MSW; Ted Rynearson, MD
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Afternoon Presentations
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
"Restorative Retelling Revisions - Local Sites Require Local Solutions"
Priya Shahani, MSW, 9/11 disaster; Connie Saindon, MFT, Adult Outpatients; Vilma Torres, LCSW, and Beth Ann Holzhay, MSW, Prosecutors Office; Beverley Jones, MSW, Medical Examiner's Office; Terry Blakely, PhD and Nita Mehr, PhD, Community Mental Health Center; Marjorie Lamphear, MSW, Hospice Center
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