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Winter get-together
With an exceptional line-up of local and international speakers, Caring, Dying & Grieving: Encouraging and Supporting Action in Communities took place on Thursday 1 December at the Renfield Centre in Glasgow. More information about this sold-out even, including speaker presentations, is available here: weblink
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The Scottish Compassionate Communities Network is for people and organisations who want to get involved in practical work to build compassion in their own community, with a particular focus on improving people's experiences of deteriorating health, death, dying and bereavement. The network provides opportunities for people to come together and share learning, experience, ideas and motivation. It is free to join the network and you can sign up here.
Caring, dying and grieving: encouraging and supporting action in communities
With an exceptional line-up of local and international speakers, it is time to book your place at Caring, Dying & Grieving: Encouraging and Supporting Action in Communities. Tickets cost only £20 for community members/volunteers and £40 for professionals.
Book tickets here, check out the programme, or read more about the sessions on offer here.
who should come?
The event is designed for anyone interested in this field, whether professionally, personally or in a volunteer capacity. We're keen to welcome volunteers, community members, social care staff, nurses, doctors, funeral directors, death doulas, academics, policy workers, community development practitioners, service planners/managers and more.
Format
The programme will feature a mix of plenary sessions, interactive workshops, quickfire presentations, exhibitor stalls, and opportunities to meet and share informally. It is a chance to learn more, to share the work you’re doing, and explore the current challenges, potential solutions and opportunities for collaboration that exist within Scotland.
The day will explore:
- public health palliative care
- compassionate communities
- planning ahead for ill health and death
- death education and bereavement support in schools
- bereavement-friendly workplaces
- public education about death and dying
Access
The building, the main hall, and 3 of the 4 breakout rooms are accessible via ramp, lift, or level ground. There are accessible toilets in the venue.
If you have additional access requirements, support needs, or dietary restrictions that would enable you to comfortably attend and participate, please provide details when prompted during booking.
If you have any questions about attending, please email samara@palliativecarescotland.org.uk.
winter get-together
Share your work and join us exploring how to give people in Scotland opportunities, skills, and the confidence to support people who are caring, dying or grieving.
Caring, Dying, Grieving: encouraging and supporting action in communities will take place on 1 December 2022, at the Renfield Centre in Glasgow.
Check out the programme and book here: Caring, dying and grieving: encouraging and supporting action in communities
It is a chance to learn more about these issues, to share the work you’re doing, and explore the current challenges, potential solutions and opportunities for collaboration that exist within Scotland.
what will the event cover?
The day will explore:
- public health palliative care
- compassionate communities
- planning ahead for ill health and death
- death education and bereavement support in schools
- bereavement-friendly workplaces
- public education about death and dying
who should come?
The event is designed for anyone interested in this field, whether professionally, personally or in a volunteer capacity. We're keen to welcome volunteers, community members, social care staff, nurses, doctors, funeral directors, death doulas, academics, policy workers, community development practitioners, service planners/managers and more.
format
The day will include a mix of plenary sessions, interactive smaller groups, and opportunities for stakeholders to share their work. More information about the day is available here: Caring, dying and grieving: encouraging and supporting community action.
Share your work
exhibitors
The Renfield Centre is a great space for stalls and exhibitions, and we have a limited number of tables available for organisations and groups to showcase their work.
If you would like to host one of these tables (free of charge), please email a short explanation of your organsation/group and the work you'd like to bring to samara@palliativecarescotland.org.uk by Thursday 27 October.
open-mic slots for speakers
One of the plenary sessions will be an 'open-mic quick-fire' session on topics chosen and delivered by delegates.
Are you doing great work that you'd like to share? Or is there something that you'd like other people to get involved in? If so, we'd encourage you to apply for one of these slots.
Email samara@palliativecarescotland.org.uk by 27th October, with a brief description of what you’d like to talk about. Each speaker will get five minutes to speak. There is limited time but we will endeavour to showcase as much work as possible.
bring a session
There is space at the venue for some additional short break-out sessions to be held from 9.40am-10.20am. For example, these could be used to provide an open information session on a particular topic, or to hold a private group meeting.
If you would like to apply to use one of these breakout spaces, please email samara@palliativecarescotland.org.uk by 27 October 2022.
Bereavement Summit - Outputs
The Scottish Bereavement Summit took place online on 13th October 2022. The event was a developed by a wide collaborative of organisations involved in bereavement support. The purpose of Summit was to consider ‘what next?’ – how can we move forward together to improve people's of bereavement in Scotland?
Thanks to all organisers, presenters, and delegates who helped make the Bereavement Summit such a success.
Insights from Bereaved People slideshow (includes audio)
Pre-Summit Questionnaire Survey Summary
Presentation Slides: Sally Paul and Nina Vaswani - "Prevalence, Impact and the Need to Take Action".
Discussion Groups Padlet (live)
The full recording of the plenary sessions can be viewed here.
Video timings guide:
- 00:00 - Mark Hazelwood: Welcome and outline of events.
- 07:30 - Donna Hastings: Introducing "Insights from Bereaved People" slideshow.
- 12:20 - Donna Hastings: Presenting "Insights from Delegates" survey summary.
- 21:00 - Sally Paul and Nina Vaswani: Presenting on "Prevalence, Impact and the Need to Take Action",
- 40:00 - Five short presentations on recent reports and their recommendations:
- 41:00 - Donald Macaskill on the Report of the UK Commission on Bereavement.
- 46:00 - Denisha Killoh on the National Childhood Bereavement Project Report.
- 52:30 - Claire Donaghy on Grief Encounters: Experiences of Bereavement Support in Later Life, Independent Age.
- 59:00 - Nina Huszarik on A better route through grief: support for people facing grief across the UK, Sue Ryder.
- 1:05:00 - Rebecca Patterson on Every Story’s Ending, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care.
- 1:10:00 - Jennifer Somerville: Presenting an overview of some of the context and work currently underway in Scotland aiming to improve people’s experiences of bereavement.
- 1:20:00 - Mark Hazelwood: Presenting the delegate survey summary on "Next Steps" and concluding.
Image credit: Good Life. Good Death, Good Grief
To Absent Friends small grants scheme launched
We have now launched our small grants scheme for this year's To Absent Friends festival of storytelling and remembrance, which runs from 1-7 November 2022.
The scheme is to support small organisations to undertake local activities that provide public opportunities for storytelling and/or remembrance of people who have died.
Full details are available here.
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