Government, educational, and social service agencies can sponsor introductory and certification training programs for their employees.  The organization provides the training facility, pays a set instructional and materials fee, and reimburses trainer's hotel, meals, and travel expenses.  Contact Dr. Sally Gelardin at AgingWorks at 415.312.4294 or email: info @agingworks.org to discuss arranging an on-site workshop

Family Caregiving Counseling Expertise: must fulfill ONE of the following categories:

1. Master's or Doctoral degree in counseling with coursework in gerontology or aging, and assessment practicum/internship with major caregiving, gerontology, life transitions, marriage and family, social services, career,  or disability emphasis
2. Minimum of 2 years of caregiving, gerontology, life transitions, marriage and family, social services, or disability counseling experience (teaching, training, materials development or practice) OR
3. Minimum of 5 years of delivery of family caregiving services (working with individuals or families to assist them with family caregiving) presentations and/or published books/training materials related to family caregiving
4. Master's degree in a field such as Human Resource Development, Psychology or Education with 3 years experience in family caregiving or delivery of family caregiving services and recent continuing education related to family caregiving presentations and/or published books/training materials related to family caregiving OR
5. Bachelor's degree in a field such as Human Resource Development, Psychology or Education with 5 years experience in family caregiving or delivery of family caregiving services and recent continuing education in career development, presentations and published books/training materials related to family caregiving

Without the above stated education, the FCC Counselor Candidate must have extensive family caregiving background, training, knowledge, expertise, and experience.

 

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What Is The Size And Duration Of This Seminar? 40 hours

What Is The Organization That Grants The Credentials? ADEC (Association of Death Education and Counseling) 

What Is This Certification Program? The training is carefully designed to both encourage personal growth and professional expertise. The teaching modality alternates theoretical presentations with experiential sessions to fully address the comprehension and integration of the knowledge that Degriefing presents. My esteemed colleague Antonio Sausyswill be offering the somatic vehicle for integration, 'Yoga for Grief Relief', demonstrating the premise that "grief is the most available untapped resource for personal transformation". Pre-registration and interview are required. This course is not recommended for the newly bereaved.  Tuition $1350.00 with 10% early bird discount if paid 30 days in advance and 15% early bird discount if paid in full 60 days before the start date. (all training materials included)

Who Can Enroll In One Of The "Open" Enrollment Certification Training Sessions? 

Can Organizations Sponsor "Closed" Training Sessions For Their Staff Members? 

Will A Certificate Be Granted? CEU's are available for: California Nurses, MFT's, Social Workers and Psychologists...and those applying for Thanatology Credits through ADEC (Association of Death Education & Counseling)

Continuing Education Hours 40 hours

What Organizations Have Featured Our Training And Certification Workshops? Miner's Colfax Medical Center, Boca Raton, New Mexico, California Pacific Medical Center Pacific Heights Campus,  International Yogatherapy Conference, Abington Memorial Hospital, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Degriefing presentation to the hospital staff and members of Safe Harbor

You are welcome to submit an article to the upcoming National Career Development Association monograph on "Career and Caregiving:  Putting the Pieces Together." 

 

Here are the parameters:

 

1. Include both career and caregiving and how they relate in your life.

2. Include an activity that can be applied by the reader to his/her own career/caregiving situation.

3. Write about your own experiences or about the experiences of your clients/students/workshop participants juggling career and caregiving.

4. Note: Career used to include just those work activities that produced something of economic value or of service to others, but now it is considered the progression of purposeful activities that you engage in throughout your life, including lifelong learning, caregiving and retirement. Living life fully is a career in itself!

5.Describe what is unique about your approach to juggling career and caregiving.

 

You may be at any stage in the caregiving process: (a) the midst of caregiving, (b) recovering from a caregiving situation, (c) in a position where you have been a caregiver and are not currently a caregiver, (d) expecting or not expecting to be a caregiver in the near future. At whatever stage you are, you have the intention of weaving caregiving into your career and sharing with others.

 

Explain how career and caregiving fit into where you are now and how caregiving has impacted or is impacting your career. My associate, Roberta Floyd says, "Do not do unto others until you have done unto yourself." In other words, look at your own situation and share what you know from personal experience. Do you own activity before sharing it with others. This monograph is built upon the belief that others can learn from you more by identifying with your story (or the stories of your clients) and then applying your approach to their own situation than by just following a "how-to" list of recommendations without context.

 

The monograph will be divided into the following sections:

 

1. Introduction

2. Preparing for caregiving 

3. In the midst of caregiving 

4. Recovering from caregiving

5. Moving forward

 

Choose one of these stages and write your story from the perspective of being in this stage of caregiving.  If you would like to contribute, send an e-mail to Sally Gelardin

Career professionals know how important support systems are in making a career change, looking for a job or making a personal transition. Becoming a family caregiver is a major transition that can affect both personal and work life.  From the perspective of a loved one being cared for, Gail Liebhaber courageously shares insights into building both internal and external sources of support. As caregivers, Leslie Dashew and Ruvin Liebhaber describe how they built external sources of support and give tips for caregivers in ways to coordinate caregiving responsibilities of the support team. Jacqueline Marcell and Pamela McLean discuss their personal experience with Dementia and Alzheimer’s and offer strategies for developing internal and external sources of support specific to these two illnesses. 

• Developing a Wellness Model of Family Caregiving Counseling
• Identifying Caregiver Stressors and Assessing Strengths of the Caregiving Team
• Providing Family Caregiving Services for Diverse Populations
• Discovering How To Gather Family Caregiver Information and Resources
• Using Technology To Support Family Caregivers
• Counseling the Family Caregiver Support Team
• Applying a Short-Term, Caregiver Counseling Transition Process
• Creating a Family Caregiver Counselor Program or Practice
• Employing Public Relations and Marketing Strategies to Promote Your Program/Practice
  
• Becoming Aware of Family Caregiver Ethical Guidelines and Legislation
  

Who Should Attend This Workshop?

What Is The Size And Duration Of This Seminar? 21 hours, up to 25 participants

What Is The Organization That Grants The Credentials?

What Is This Certification Program?  

Who Can Enroll In One Of The "Open" Enrollment Certification Training Sessions? 

Can Organizations Sponsor "Closed" Training Sessions For Their Staff Members?

Will A Certificate Be Granted? Yes

Continuing Education Hours 21 hours

What Organizations Have Featured  Our Family Caregiving Workshops?  California Counseling Association, International Career Development Conference, Wester Region of American Counseling Association

Who Should Attend This Workshop? Family Caregivers:  Anyone caring for an aging parent, relative, neighbor or friend. Support Services:  Counselors, health care agencies, family services
and private practitioners. 

Can Organizations Sponsor "Closed" Training Sessions For Their Staff Members?  Government, educational, and social service agencies can sponsor introductory and certification training programs for their employees.  The organization provides the training facility, pays a set instructional and materials fee, and reimburses trainer's hotel, meals, and travel expenses.  Contact Dr. Sally Gelardin at AgingWorks at 415.312.4294 or email: info @agingworks.org to discuss arranging an on-site workshop. 

 Continuing Education Hours: 7

What Organizations Have Featured Our Family Caregiving Workshops? California Counseling Association, International Career Development Conference, Wester Region of American Counseling Association

Sally Gelardin, Ed.D. (International & Multicultural Education) is a National Certified Counselor, Distance Credentialed Counselor, eLearning Instructor, and Certified Active Living Model Counselor. She has presented workshops for thousands of counselors and career professionals and started the first job club for seniors in Marin County, California, where her oldest client (in her 80s) was the first person to secure a job. A year later, as Paralegal Career Counselor (University of San Francisco), she placed her oldest client as a paralegal in the Office of the Mayor of San Francisco. She has provided workshops for seniors at San Francisco's Montefiore Senior Center and other senior facilities and for the California Department of Aging. She was a founding member of the Spiritual Eldering movement in San Francisco and has co-presented workshops on housing options for seniors. Dr. Gelardin was interviewed on the topic of "Coping with Caregiving" on wsradio.com and has provided free job search tips to attendees at the Marin Assisted Technology Fair.

In her personal life, Dr. Gelardin has ongoing experiences with career, caregiving, and self-care. Within the past year and a half, Dr. Gelardin moved her mother, father-in-law and stepmother from one state to another, while promoting her new book, "Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy" (NCDA, 2007), creating seven Entrepreneur Kits, co-instructing online and in-person career training programs, and serving as Women's Studies Portfolio Evaluator at the University of San Francisco. She has adapted her work to accommodate the needs of her family.

She is author of two books to honor her mother (while she is still alive) - a narrative recipe book of her favorite recipes and a tribute to her, prolific author of articles for professional publications and workshop presenter on career and caregiving issues. Gelardin gathered together leading caregiver and career experts to compose a special issue of a professional journal on "Making a Career of Counseling Caregivers," and sent out a survey to see if other counselors were interested in a Family Caregiver Counselor Certificate training. She is now working on a monograph about career and caregiving to be published by the National Career Development Association and offering a series of tele-interviews with leading authorities on caregiving issues.

Dr. Gelardin is a former president of the California Career Development Association (CCDA) and is an active member of the National Career Development Association's (NCDA's) Publications Council, as well as a member of the American Counseling Association's (ACA's) Cyber-Technology Committee and Grief and Bereavement listserv and a tele-interviewer for the California Counseling Association (CCA).