The Children’s Treehouse
Foundation presents a special training workshop for professionals interested in
launching a psychosocial intervention, group-support program at their cancer
center, for the children whose parents have cancer.
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Psychosocial
Intervention Training Workshop Information and Registration Form:
Dates: Thursday
through Saturday, September 18-20, 2008
Location: Denver, CO
Who Should
Attend, and Why: Social Workers, Nurses, Clergy, Psychologists, Child Life Specialists, and Oncology support personnel such as art, music and dance therapists interested in launching a psychosocial intervention, group-support program for children whose parents have cancer, at their respective cancer center. Cancer affects the entire family; and the parent’s cancer-related stress is reduced when there is a professional support program to help their children cope with their anxieties and fears, while also improving communications between the parents and children.
Principle Workshop Presenters: Sue Heiney, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN, manager and research director, Psychosocial Oncology, Palmetto Richmond Memorial Hospital, South Carolina Cancer Center; Wendy Peterson, APRN, Middlesex Hospital Cancer Center, Middletown, Conn., and Peter R. van Dernoot, BS, Founder and Executive Director, The Children’s Treehouse Foundation.
Agenda: Thursday evening, cocktail reception: 6:00-7:30 p.m.; Workshop starts Friday at 8:00 a.m. and runs to 5:00 p.m.; An off-site dinner Friday evening; Saturday: Workshop starts at 8:00 a.m., runs until noon.
Continuing Education Credits: The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) will award 11.0 contact hours for continuing education credits. In addition, the ONS will award 10.0 hours of continuing education credits. This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Oncology Nursing Society, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Costs: The workshop fee
includes the formal training sessions, a comprehensive training/programming
manual, a power-point presentation and handouts, a marketing DVD, activity
materials, a copy of our book, Helping
Your Children Cope With Your Cancer, A Guide For Parents and Families, a
welcome reception, two breakfasts, three coffee breaks, one luncheon, and one
offsite dinner. The fee is $500.00 for
the first person from an agency/organization (a cancer center), $350.00 for
each additional person from the same center.
We recommend at least one person be licensed. Please submit a check payable to The Children’s Treehouse
Foundation, 50 South Steele St., Suite 430, Denver, Colorado 80209. Please note: If you wish to receive a CE certificate from NASW,
please add $10.00 for each one to defray their charge. We also issue our own certificate.