Learning Disability - Bereavement

On-Line Learning

• Bereavement And Learning Disabilities (www.bereavementanddisability.org.uk)

   

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

Contains:  A guide for individuals who have experienced a bereavement.

A guide for carers offering support.

A guide for professionals offering bereavement support.

Learning Materials

• Loss and Learning Disability by Noelle Blackman

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

To learn about how people can be affected by bereavement. 

To look at strategies to prevent grief complications and ways of helping people when the grief process goes wrong.

Training Event

Title: Bereavement & Learning Disability (1 day course)

Dates: 1st March 2012 

Target Group: People who work with or care for people with learning disabilities. This event is suitable for people in the above role who work in the independent & voluntary sector.

Learning outcomes:  (what you could expect to achieve)

To be able to describe the different type of losses people experience in their lives.

To understand the process of loss and bereavement.

To look at what bereaved people with a learning disability need and how we can support them.

To look creatively at communication.

To creatively explore life story work, reminiscence and bereavement.

N.B.  If someone has experienced loss in the last 18 months they may need to think carefully before coming on this course.

Contact

Lead Officer:                                    

Jane Hemsley

Tel. No: 0116 2211705 (39 1705)

E-Mail: Jane.Hemsley@leicester.gov.uk

Booking and administration:                 

Andy Humpherson  

Tel. No: 0116 2211704 (39 1704)

E-Mail: Andy.Humpherson@leicester.gov.uk