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African American Faith Based Bereavement Initiative

African American Faith Based Bereavement Initiative. INTRODUCTION Creating an Embracing Faith Community for those Who have Lost a Baby.

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African American Faith Based Bereavement Initiative

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  1. African American Faith Based Bereavement Initiative

  2. INTRODUCTIONCreating an Embracing Faith Community for those Who have Lost a Baby Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.2 Corinthians 1:1-5

  3. Learning to Extend our Comforting—A Training Curriculum is Born • National Center for Cultural Competence—Sudden Unexpected Infant and Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Project (SUID/CD/PL) and National SUID/CD/PL Program Support Center at First Candle have partnered to create the African American Faith-based Bereavement Initiative

  4. Goals for the Initiative • To increase the capacity of faith based communities to provide bereavement support to parishioners and surrounding communities impacted by fetal or infant losses by addressing the attitudes and beliefs that inhibit the grief process. • To build the capacity of faith based communities to promote inter-conceptual care for families experiencing infant and fetal losses by addressing the attitudes and beliefs that inhibit seeking follow-up medical care after a fetal or infant loss.

  5. Goals for the Initiative • To reduce depression and anxiety among families experiencing fetal and infant losses by building the capacity of faith based communities to promote the use of mental health services by addressing the attitudes and beliefs that inhibit seeking of mental health services.

  6. What We Will Learn • Module 1 Why do we care? Opening our eyes to our community’s pain? • Module 2 Why do we care? -The pain can last a lifetime • Module 3 Holding Up the mirror—for clergy

  7. What Will We Learn • Module 4 What do we really know about the grief process? • Module 5 What families need • Module 6 What churches can do • Module 7 When our love is not enough—connecting families to bereavement support services • Module 8 Summary-- A beacon of hope and support

  8. About the Developers • The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address the growing diversity and persistent health disparities. The National Center for Cultural Competence provides national leadership and contributes to the body of knowledge on cultural and linguistic competency within systems and organizations.

  9. About the DevelopersExpert Panel for the AAFBBI Project Nicole Alston Founder & Executive Director The Skye Foundation, Inc. Tonya Armstrong, Ph.D., M.T.S. Minister of Congregational Care and Counseling, Union Baptist Church Lecturing Fellow in Pastoral Theology Institute on Care at the End of Life Duke Divinity School Ronald David, MD, MDiv Department of Pastoral Care The Hospital of the Good Samaritan, Los Angeles, CA

  10. About the DevelopersExpert Panel for the AAFBBI Project Allison Glover Garret’s Voice: Infant Safe Sleep Consulting Company, Stone Mountain, GA  Michelle Grant-Ervin, MD, MHPE, FACEP Medical Director, Greater Washington Office VITAS Healthcare Corporation, Washington, DC   Kim V. Holmes, LCSW-C Director Family Bereavement Center, Baltimore, Maryland

  11. About the DevelopersExpert Panel for the AAFBBI Project Gwendolyn W. London, D.Min Founder London & Associates, Silver Spring, MD   Rita Milburn-Dobson, MA, RNC, FT President Precious Gems Supportive Services, Glenside, PA Rosalind P. Oden Health Educator Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC

  12. About the DevelopersExpert Panel for the AAFBBI Project Darryl Owens, MDiv., BCC, CT Women’s Services Chaplain/Grief Counselor Department of Pastoral Care University of North Carolina Hospitals Gloria Ramsey, JD, RN Director, , Community Outreach and Information Dissemination Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Center for Health Disparities Research & Education Drena Reaves-Bey, MPA, GCPH Director of Special Initiatives DC Department of Health, Maternal and Primary Care Administration,

  13. About the DevelopersExpert Panel for the AAFBBI Project Douglas M. Ronsheim, D.Min. Executive Director American Association of Pastoral Counselors Robert Washington, PhD, MDiv Chaplain Montgomery Hospice, Rockville, MD   Christina Williams, BS, MBA Executive Director Grief Assistance Program, Inc., Philadelphia, PA

  14. Funders The African American Faith-based Bereavement Initiative has been funded by: Cooperative Agreement U48MC05549 with funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau to the Program Support Center at First Candle; Cooperative Agreement U40MC00145 with funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child and Human Developmentto the National Center for Cultural Competence; and First Candle

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