The Art of Companioning the Mourner: Caring vs. Curing

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Big Slick Auditorium (CMRI), Kansas City, MO

Children’s Mercy invites you to join Dr. Alan Wolfelt, one of the nation’s most renowned and respected grief educators and counselors from the Center for Life Transition, for an insightful seminar designed to deepen your understanding of grief. This event will provide health care professionals with tools to embrace the transformative nature of grief, fostering a more compassionate approach to integrating grief into one’s life, work and relationships.

Spiritual Services and the Center for Wellbeing are pleased to sponsor this important seminar as our organization focuses on caring for our caregivers.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (4.50 hours), ANCC Contact Hour(s) (4.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (4.50 hours), Social Work (4.50 hours)

1. Develop empathetic communication techniques to better support grieving patients, families, and colleagues.
2. Create strategies to promote self-care, and to offer emotional support and/or resources to colleagues struggling with emotional stress and/or burnout.

Successful completion requirements:

• Record attendance as instructed

• Participate in the activity

• Complete the online activity evaluation by June 23, 2025

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Children's Mercy Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Children's Mercy Hospital  designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Children’s Mercy Kansas City is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Children’s Mercy Kansas City’s Department of Social Work is approved as a provider of contact hours on behalf of the State of Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Providership # 10-004.

Cancellation Policy

Children's Mercy Kansas City reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary; in the event of cancellation, course fees will be fully refunded. We are not responsible for other costs incurred such as non-refundable airline tickets or hotel penalties.

Accessibility Statement
 
Children's Mercy Kansas City is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.

The Children's Mercy Kansas City Office of Continuing Medical Education adheres to ACCME Criteria, Standards and Policies regarding industry support of continuing medical education. Disclosure of faculty and their commercial relationships will be made prior to the activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Children's Mercy Continuing Medical Education adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.