Where is Lisa?
Calendar for 2010
Teaneck High School: Student presentations through the The Forum, Teen Center 1/5/10
Jonathan Dayton High School: Faculty presentation: 1/6/10 Supporting
HS Students Through Loss and Transitions
Linden Girl Scout Troop: Adolescents Coping with Grief and Loss: When a Young Friend Dies -
1/6/10
Teaneck High
School : Student presentations, Boys HS group, Girls HS group, Teen Center, 1/7/10
A Conference on Underage Drinking: Trinitas, Prevention Links, 1/8/10 Trinitas
Regional Medical Center
Valerie Center
at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center: Grief Support for Staff: When Professionals Grieve 1/8/10
Grace and Peace Church: Cranford: Youth Group presentation: When a Beloved Friend Dies: Teens Coping
with Grief 1/9/10
Essex County
Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth: Lead Response Team meeting 1/13/09
Jefferson Township Library: Coping with Depression and Grief after the Holidays , 7-8:30
Association for Student Assistant Professionals Somerset County:
1/14/10 Supporting Grieving Students
Woodbridge
Middle Schools, Woodbridge Student presentations on Coping with Transition and Loss :
Iselin Middle School: 6th, 7th and 8th Grades: Coping with Transitions and Loss: 1/15/10
Clifton High School: 3 hour in-service professional development workshop for SAC's, Learning Consultants and Guidance
Counselors K -12th : 1/18/10
TLC training on Traumatic Incident Intervention: to help grieving Haitian children and families 1/19/10
Avenel Middle School: Presentations to 6th graders about Coping with Transition and Loss:
1/20/10
Toussaint Louventure
Marquis De Lafayette School: Elizabeth: Supporting Haitian Students (TLC) 1/21/10 afternoon group
Support Group -Springfield: Saying Goodbye to a dear friend- 1/21/10
evening group
Woodbridge Middle
School: Presentations to 6th graders 1/22/10
Girl Scout Troop: 6th graders : Friendships - Springfield:
1/24/10
Manalapan-Englishtown
Schools: 2 hour professional development workshop: Counselors and Nurses: K-8th 1/26/10
Colonia Middle School: 6th graders: Let's talk about coping with
transitions and loss, 1/27/10
C.A.S.E.: Center for Adoption Support and Education:
Webinar: Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens with Debbie Riley 1/28/10
Barkalow Middle School: Freehold School District, 3 hour Guidance Staff in-service workshop:
Supporting Grieving Middle Schoolers: 1/29/10
Oak Knoll School: 9th and 10th grades: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Transitions 2/1/10
Oak Knoll School: 7th grades: Adolescents Coping with Transitions,
Grief and Loss 2/2/10
St. Agnes School: Clark : Program
for students- K - 8th : 2/3/10 postponed
Atlantic Health Care: Planning a bereavement
summer program and training 2/4/10
16th Annual NJ State Elks Association Youth Peer Leadership Conference: Presenting to 200 peer leaders
from all over NJ on Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff: Two workshops 2/5/10-2/7/10 Long Branch NJ
Homefirst : planning community wide grief 6 week community support program
for spring 2010: 2/8/10
Middletown
School District: Middle Schools and High Schools: Program for staff 2/16/10
Jonathan
Dayton High School: Presentation to the students in the Inclusion Classroom: Bullying, Self Esteem, and Expressing Anger
in healthy ways. 2/17/10
Grief After Suicide: How Does Suicide
Change the Grieving ADEC Webinar by Jack Jordan Ph.D, FT 2/17/10
Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Essex
County: Understanding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans-gendered and Questioning Youth , Hudson Pride Connections: 2/18/10
Children's Specialized Hospital: grief support for parents of pediatric
patients: When Everything Changes in an Instant: Helping Parents to Cope 2/19/10
Oak Knoll School: 9th and 10th grades 2/22/10: Books as a source of emotional support
and inspiration during challenging times 2/22/10
Belleville High School : Winter Professional Development Institute: 20 hour Grief Program for teachers K-12
: 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29
Oak Knoll School: 7th and 8th grades: Learning to Listen with Empathy: 2/23/10
Mercer County School Counselors: Supporting Grieving Students in
School: Two hour professional development workshop 2/24/10
Montclair School District: ASAP (Association of Student Assistant Professionals): Supporting
Grieving Students as an SAP 2/25/10
TLC Middlesex County 2/26/10
Blog Talk Radio Show: Coping with the Grief
of Divorce: 3/1/10
Livingston High School: Assembly Program for Seniors
on Coping with Transitions, Grief and Other Tough Stuff 3/2/10
Traumatic Incident Intervention: by Robert Macy, PhD: Certificate Course: one day training for TII:Traumatic
Incident Intervention in Schools: 3/3, 8-4
Advance Post Traumatic Stress Management: Protocols
for Response to Suicide 3/4/10 MACY training 9-5
Advance Post Traumatic Stress
Management: Protocol for Response to Homicide 3/5/10 Macy Training 8-5
Atlantic Health Palliative Care Program: Do Everything: Overlook Hospital 3/9/10
Jonathan
Dayton HS: 7 Health Class Presentations on Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and other Tough Stuff 3/10/10
Teaneck High School: Forum, School Based Program: Teens Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 3/11/10
The Deron School of NJ: Speaking
to faculty and staff: Special Needs, Grief and Loss: two 2 hour professional development : 3/12/10
Saint Michael's Teen Youth Group: Presenting to 200 teens : Depression, Self Injury and Suicide: What
Teens Need to Know 3/16/10
TLC Essex GLBT issues
with youth in schools, 3/17/10
New Milford
High School: Health and Alliance Seminar: Supporting Grieving Children and Teens: 3/18/10
Journey from Loss to Renewal: Clinical Interventions for Normal and Complicated
Grief CMI Educational Institute, cutting edge
strategies
for working with normal, complicated and traumatic grief. Harold Ivan Smith, Ed.S. Parsippany, 3/19/10
Classroom Based Intervention: presented by Robert Macy,
PhD, Founder and Executive Director of the Boston Center for Trauma Psychology, the Co-director of a Category III National
Center for the Child Traumatic Stress Network site in Boston, Founder of The Children's Trauma Recovery Foundation and Research
Associate in Psychology in the Dept of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
3 day Certificate Course: intensive training for CBI Classroom Based Intervention: 15 Session
Protocol : 3//22- 3/24/10
Farleigh Dickenson University: Presenting to a
graduate class on Schools, Community and Substance Abuse 3/23/10Contact We Care: 24/7 Crisis Helpline: 3 hour training for helpline volunteers: 3/24/10
TLC Middlesex county: 3/26/10
Hospice Foundation of America: Cancer
and End of Life Care: 1:30-4pm
Homefirst/ Family Success Center: Facilitate
a 6 Week Program for Community Members on Coping with Grief, Loss and Other Tough Stuff 4/8/10-5/13/10
New Jersey Counselors Association: Conference: Grief, Loss and Healthy
Coping : 4/10/10
TLC Essex County,
Cedar Grove 4/15/10
Chatham School District: Parent Program: Raising Resilient
Children and Teens Through Difficult Times: AM and PM programs; 4/27/10
Rainbows
of Livingston: Program for children who have experienced loss through divorce, death or abandonment. Speaking to the parents
on Coping with Grief, Loss and Transition 5/19/10
Depression and Bipolar Association: DBSA 4/28/10 Lisa presenting on Grief and Diagnosis of BiPolar
Disorder
TLC of Middlesex County 4/30/10
Monmouth School Nurse Dinner: Speaker for evening program 5/4/10
The Women's Center: Livingston: Grief, Loss and Coping: program for adults 7-9pm 5/26/10
Parsippany School District: 2 hour staff professional
development workshop: 5/21/10
Good Ideas Conference: Ocean County School Counselors
Conference: Supporting Grieving Students 5/27/10
TLC of Middlesex County 5/28/10
Overlook Hospital Palliative Care Lecture
Series: Coping with Bereavement 6/8/10 Summit, NJ
Lawrence
School District: Professional Development for School Counselors: full day training: 6/21/10
NJEA Convention Speaker: Atlantic City, teachers weekend, Supporting
Grieving Students, November 2010
Where was Lisa in 2009?
Wyoming Elementary School: 1/5/09 Maplewood: faculty: Children and Grief
Maplewood Rotary Club: 1/6/09 Grief in a Get Over it Society
Mount Saint Mary's School: Student Assistant Counselors and faculty: 1/7/09
James Caldwell Elementary School: faculty 1/7/09
Westfield High School: 1/8/09 freshmen health classes: Teens, Loss and Grief: ways to cope
Deerfield School: Millburn 1/12/09 faculty on children
and grief
James Caldwell School: Springfield: 1/12, 1/13, 1/14/09
3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes on grief
James Caldwell Elementary School:
PTA: Supporting our grieving children
Alternatives: Coping
Skills Group: speaker: Raritan, 1/15/09
Prevention Links of
Union County:SAC's, Counselors, Grief in Schools 1/16/09
Madison
High School: special education, learning specialists, guidance department 1/19
Middlesex High School: Grief, Self Injury and Other Destructive Behaviors: 1/20/09
Kinnelon High School: classroom presentations to students 1/21 and 1/22/09
Edward V. Walton School: Springfield 2nd grades 1/26
St. James School , Springfield 1st and 7th grades 1/26
Edward
V. Walton Early Elementary: parent program 1/27/09
Union County
School Nurse Association: When Grief Visits the Nurses Office: What school nurses need to know 1/26/09
Kinnelon Middle School: entire staff 2/2/09
Edward V.Walton Early Elementary (pre K-2nd) : Classroom presentations 2/3/09
St. James School: program for 6th-8th grade religious education class 2/3/09
(postponed due to snow)
Edward V.Walton Early Elementary: staff
training 2/4/09
Springfield Community Conference: Grief
and the Power of Community 2/5/09
Glenwood Elementary School:
Millburn,when a child loses a parent 2/9/09 entire faculty
Watchung
Hills HS: staff in-service on grief in school 2/12/09
Union
County School Nurse Association: Self Injury and Other Destructive Behaviors 2/12/09
Catholic Charities of Edison: social work training: 2/17/09
Center for Women: Livingston: Grief, Loss and Coping 2/18/09
Ocean County Personnel and Guidance Association: present to all of the counselors
on grief in school: 2/19/09
NJHPERD: Health, Phys Ed, Rec, Dance
Annual Conference: 2/24/ 2009 session on "teaching grief in health
class" : presentation to health educators.
Livingston High
School: middle school and high school coaches: What Coaches Need to Know about Grief: 3/4/09
Kinnelon High School: freshmen health classes, 3/4 and 3/5
South Mountain Elementary School:( Millburn) staff 3/09
South Mountain Elementary School: students: 3/10 3/11
Berkeley Heights - Parent Education Workshop: 3/16/09
Westfield High School: freshmen health classes: 3/18/09
Rainbows:
Livingston parent education: divorce, death 3/23/09
Fanwood
-Scotch Plains YMCA: staff training on grief and loss: 3/24/09
Middlesex
High School: Topic: When a Parent Is Ill 3/25/09
Summit
Elementary Schools: K-5 staff in-service training 3/30/09
Jonathan
Dayton High School: health classes for juniors in high school 3/31/09
Contact We Care:crisis hot-line: present 3 hours for a section of the volunteer training
: handling grief related calls, 4/1/09
Movin' On: Glen Rock Jewish Center:
Widows and Widowers Support Group: Grief and Loss after the loss of a spouse 4/2/09
Home First: serving homeless families in NJ Staff Training: Grief
and Loss: 4/9/09
Home First: 6 week grief support group: for
homefirst clients 4/16/09- 5/20/09
Kean University - NJ School Counselors Association Conference 4/17/09: What
School Counselors Need to Know about Grieving Students and Staff. Children dealing with illness, death, divorce,
abandonment and other losses. Lisa keynote speaker
Kinnelon
Health Fair: school program 4/21/09
Essex County
Traumatic Loss Coalition for Children: Youth and Grief: 4/23/09
Home
First: 6 Week Group: Dealing with Loss 4/22
Beyond Survival:
Empowering Female Trauma Victims: 4/24 Family Service Bureau of Newark: Lisa attending this program
Hospice Foundation of America: Telecast on diversity and grief: local panelist at Robert Wood Johnson:
4/29/09
HomeFirst: Grief Group 4/30/09
Farleigh Dickenson University: Spoke to students: Grief and the College Student:
4/30/09
Holy Spirit Widows/Divorced Group: 4/30/09 Union:
members of support group
Ocean County Counselors Conference: key note
and break out session: Children's Grief in 3-D: dealing with death, divorce or desertion 5/1/09 grief
and loss
Rainbows: parent education, (program for families dealing with
divorce, death or abandonment) Livingston 5/4/09
Sunrise
of Madison: Assisted Living Residents 5/5/09
Roselle
Park High School: Grief Support Program for students: 5/6/09
HomeFirst:
6 week Handling Life's Losses: group 5/7/09, 5/14/09, 5/21/09
Compassionate
Friends: guest speaker: Normalizing the Grief Process in Our "Get Over it" Society, Parsippany group 5/14/09
Jonathan Dayton High School, Springfield: 5/15/09 Health class presentations to seniors
Grief, Loss and Healing: 5/15/09 Verona workshop
Westfield High School: present to sophomore students in health classes 5/18/09
Roselle Park High School: Grief and Loss 5/19/09, consulting work
Overlook Hospital Palliative Care Conference for Physicians: Grief at end of life: physicians, residents,
interns, in family medicine, palliative care: 5/19/09
James
Caldwell High School, Caldwell, Peer Support Group: 5/19 Facilitated a group on grief, loss and healing
West Milford High School: wellness fair: Grief Speaks will have a table 5/28/09
Catholic Charities of Newark: School Social Workers: 5/29/09
Warren School District: Al Tomaso School: one hour presentation for parents, guardians and staff: dealing
with loss in the school community: 6/4/09
Comfort Zone Camp:
6/5-6/7 Lisa attended as a Healing Circle Leader shadow for weekend grief support camp.
Springfield Emmanuel United Methodist Church: Springfield, Guest speaker: Maintaining
Hope through Life's Losses and Transitions: 7/5/09
JALP: Camp for
Youth at Risk: Parsippany Police Department: Presentation to teens at risk about grief, losses
and the importance of finding healthy ways to express losses. 7/13/09
The
Children's Institute: Verona: Presentation to staff on Grief and the Special Needs Student. Also presented
at the Parent Support Group on the topic of "How to Talk to Special Needs Children about Grief and Loss".
7/13/09
Sunrise Assisted Living of Westfield: 8/2/09
"Moving through Transition"
Belleville School District:
Professional Development Institute: Summer: What Educators Need to Know about Grief:Deliver a fifteen hour
grief and loss training to school staff over a three day period. Covering such topics as: When parents die, divorce, leave,
get ill, dealing with moving, illness, and other losses, in addition to supporting grieving staff and students. 8/11-8/13
Grief, Trauma and PTSD: J. Eric
Gentry Pesi Program: 8/14/09 Lisa attending
Overlook Hospital: Grand Rounds for Pediatricians: What Physicians Need to Know about Grief: August
20,09
Morristown Memorial Hospital:
Grand Rounds for Pediatricians: What Physicians Need to Know about Grief: August 21,09
Valerie Fund: Facilitate Monthly Self Care Groups for Physicians at Newark Beth Israel Children's
Medical Center, St. Barnabas and Monmouth Medical Center (September -December 09)
New Theories of Grief: Going Beyond Kubler-Ross : Webinar
9/16/09 ADEC (Assoc. of Death Educ and Counseling)
Jonathan Dayton High School (Springfield) Freshmen Health Classes: Healthy Ways to Cope with Loss:
9/21/09
Prevention Links: Union County: Teens
and Addiction to Prescription Drugs : meeting
Atlantic Health
Hospice: Hospice and the Family: Talking to Children about Death and Dying: program
for staff, volunteers and conference presenter Fall 2009
Traumatic Loss Coalition of Middlesex County: Lisa attending, 9/25/09
Exploring the Art of "Companioning" the Mourner by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt: 9/28/09 Cherry
Hill (Lisa attending)
Lacourdia High School, Classroom presentations for 9th-12th
on grief and loss, Upper Montclair 9/30/09
Sticks and Stones: Cyberbullying Program at Verona High School: Lisa attending this workshop 10/2/09
Contact We Care: Two day Suicide Prevention Training:
Lisa taking this class 10/3 and 10/4
Parsippany Troy Hills:
Parent Program 10/6/09 K - 8; staff program
Westfield High School: Classroom presentations 9th and 12th: 10/7/09 8 Freshmen Health Classes on
Teen Grief
Traumatic Loss Coalition
for Youth: Union County Meeting: Living with Mental Illness, Lisa attending 10/8/09
Belleville High School: Supporting
Grieving Students: Counselors and Special Services, Professional Development 10/9/09
Teaneck Board of Education: Program for School Counselors in Teaneck, 10/12/09 Professional Development
Brain Injury Association
of NJ, Inc. Brain Injury Basics for Parents and School Professionals at Kean University, Lisa attended 10/13/09 2 hour program
on brain injury. Identification, understanding and responding to special needs of these students.
Westfield High School: 7 Health Classes, seniors Teens Coping with Loss, Grief and
Transitions 10/14/09
Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth of Essex County :meeting: Mental Illness and Loss 10/15/09
Children's Specialized Hospital: Program for Parents : "Coping with Grief"
TBA
Out of Darkness Walk: Suicide prevention walk. Community Walks annually.
5K Saddle Brook: 10/18/09
Bergen County School Nurse Association: 10/19/09
Beyond Band-aids: What School Nurses Need to Know about Grief, Wood-Ridge
New Jersey School Counselor Association
(NJSCA)Annual Fall Conference: Breakout session: "When Parents Leave Children Behind: Death, Divorce,
Incarceration and Abandonment" West Long Branch, NJ 10/19/09 10:15-12:30
Morris County School Nurse Association: 10/22/09: What School Nurses Need to Know about Grief: Rockaway
Kean University: Graduate Student Assistant Professionals:
What SAP's Need to Know about Grief: 10/24/09
Rainbows of Essex County: Speaking to Parents dealing with divorce and death, 10/26/09 Livingston
St. Josephs School
in Mendham: Parent Program: How to support your grieving children, when a classmate's parent dies 10/26/09
Valerie Center: St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, Grief Support Program for Staff: 10/28/09
Contact We Care: Deliver a 3 hr Training on speaking to Grieving Callers: for hot-line volunteers:
Grief Calls: 10/28/09
Traumatic
Loss Coalition for Youth: Middlesex County: Lisa attending 10/30/09
Psychological First Aid during a Disaster: Lisa attending , 11/2/09
Pequonnack High School: Freshmen health classes :Teens coping with transition and loss 11/3/09
Fairleigh Dickenson University: Graduate Class for SAC's:
What Student Assistant Counselors Need to Know about Grief 11/3/09
Valerie Center Program: Facilitate staff group, Coping with Grief at Work, Monmouth
Medical Center, 11/6/09
Delbarton
School, Mendham 2 hour Staff Development Program: Guidance Counselors 11/10/09
Traumatic Loss Coalition of Essex
County, Lead Response Team Meeting, 11/11/09
Rahway School: Grover Cleveland Elementary School: Helping Pre-Schoolers with Loss: Parent Program
11/13
Springfield
Girl Scout Troop: 8th graders: Cyberbullying: What Teens Need to Know 11/13/09
Monmouth County School Nurse Association: Grieving Students: Many trips to the nurse's office 11/16/09
7th Annual Youth Suicide Prevention Conference: -Ethno-cultural Variables
in Youth Suicide: African American- Asian-and Latino Perspectives : Somerset: Lisa attending this program 11/17/09
Association of Death Education: Webinar: Helping Children Cope with Grief by Linda Goldman 11/18/09
TLC of Union County: Lead Response Team Present on ASIST program (Applied
Strategies and Interventions in Suicide Training) 11/19/09
Middlesex Traumatic Loss Coalition Meeting: Lead Response Team: Middlesex 11/20/09
11th Annual National Survivors of Suicide Day: by American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention, Lincroft, NJ afsp.org
Seton Hall University: Guest Speaker on Grief for Freshmen Education Majors 11/23/09
Motherless Daughters Support Group:Lisa guest speaker on: Keeping
Connected to Mom during the Holidays: 11/28/09
James Caldwell High School: West Caldwell: 9th grade student program 12/02/09 Freshmen, 12/3/09
Sophomores
Watchung Hills Regional High School:
Presentation to students on Coping with Grief and Loss 12/4/09
Kinnelon High School: Health Classes, Winter and Spring
Hawthorne High School: Student presentation 1 hour to peer leaders
and a class ( Sixty 10th, 11th and 12th graders)
TLC of Essex County: 12/10/09: Sticks and Stones : Cyberbullying Program
TLC of Middlesex County 12/11/09
Pequannock High School: Students in 9th grade Health Classes 12/14/09
Westfield High School: Six 9th grade presentations in health
on Teens Coping with Loss and Transition 12/16
Westfield High School: Six 12th grade presentation in health on Teens Coping with Loss and Transition
12/18
Disaster Crisis
Counselor Training: Trauma and Substance Abuse: Sayerville 12/21/09
Jefferson Township Library: Coping with Depression: Holidays and Beyond 12/30/09
2011
NJ State School Nurse Association Conference: speaker on Supporting Grieving Students 3/2011