Resources and Training
Impact Debriefing Toolkit for Managers
This Debriefing Tool Kit was designed to be a practical resource for managers and supervisors in workplaces where staff , volunteers, peers and community members are experiencing challenging loss events.
This Tool Kit offers a detailed structure for Impact Debriefing which can be a key component in supporting workers dealing with traumatic loss events.
The Tool Kit also:
provides descriptions of the various debriefing methods
offers some basic background information about grief and trauma and the impact on workers and workplaces
details some of the ways the current opioid related losses are distinct from the realities once experienced in the AIDS crisis
gives some practical tips - Do’s and Don’ts - when supporting loss-impacted workers
outlines the detailed process for a 2-3 hour Impact Debriefing session.
The Tool Kit concludes with a list of related resources.
When Grief Comes to Work: Training for Front Line Workers
This 2-hour virtual training session was developed by Yvette Perreault from Good Grief Care Consultants for front-line staff working in addictions and mental health community-based agencies. This presentation was delivered during the time of COVID and acknowledges the additional stressors experienced by workers and clients through this time- expressed as “grieving the loss of living our lives”.
Get the training package accompanied by this video.
When Grief Comes to Work - Training Package.pdf
Mention Links:
How grief affects your brain and what to do about it.
How do you help a grieving friend?
The When Grief Comes to Work Handbook can also be found at CATIE.
When Grief Comes to Work: Managing Grief and Loss in the Workplace (Handbook)
Why grief and the workplace? I wrote this handbook in 2011 while I was Director of the AIDS Bereavement and Resilience Program of Ontario (www.abrpo.org). As a new Director, I had experienced the uncharted territory of working within a grief-saturated environment while attempting to build a new provincial program at the same time. Two “energies” if you will, perpetual contraction and expansion.
Initially, I thought I hadn’t found the right training yet, so back in the early ‘90s, I completed a “Management in the not-for-profit sector” program at what was then Ryerson University. There was virtually no mention of caring for a grieving staff and volunteers in their Human Resource course – something I needed as I worked in a death and loss saturated community. When I went on to learn about grief and loss in a Thanatology program, there was no discussion about how to integrate a loss framework into organizational life.
This handbook was my response to begin bridging that gap in both knowledge and practice as a manager. I hope you find portions of it useful.
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