When a Family Is Affected by Cancer:

Strengthening the School’s Response

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

7:30 am - 2:30 pm

Bridgewater Manor

1251 Route 202/206

Bridgewater, NJ 08807

Invites you to attend:

When a Family Is Affected by Cancer: Strengthening the School’s Response

Who Should Attend:

Teachers • School Nurses

Guidance Counselors • Psychologists

Social Workers • School Administrators

Teachers will receive

Professional Development Credits.

Nurses and Social Workers will receive

Continuing Education Credits.

A Workshop for Educators

What You Can Expect to Learn:

A fundamental understanding of cancer and its impact on families

Measures parents can take to meet their children’s needs

Measures that school personnel can take to help these parents and students

How to create a support system for students who are struggling with a

parent’s cancer diagnosis

Insights from a panel of children and parents who are coping with cancer

When a child is either diagnosed with cancer or

learns of a parent’s cancer diagnosis, routines become disrupted, relationships shift and serious

questions need to be answered. Children look at life through

a lens of uncertainty, confusion and fear - the effects of which

are often accentuated at school. Helping a student cope is

challenging but school personnel can meet this challenge with

compassion, reassurance and respect.

The Wellness Community of Central New Jersey

3 Crossroads Drive

Bedminster, NJ 07921

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When a Family Is Affected by Cancer: Strengthening the School’s Response

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Jean Marie Rosone, LCSW, OSW-C

Jean Marie Rosone has served as Coordinator of Integrative Medicine Services at the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Memorial Hospital for the past ten years. She received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from Rutgers University, and completed clinical training in Mind Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a practitioner of Jin Shin Jytsu, Reiki, IGM Therapeutic Acupressure, Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy and Healing Touch. She is also skilled in group facilitation, individual assessment, and clinical evaluation. She has a private practice in Morristown. As a 32-year cancer survivor, she personally incorporates meditation and mind-body practices into her daily existence.

Conference Schedule

7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration/Breakfast/Exhibits

8:30-8:45 a.m. Welcome

8:45-9:45 a.m. Workshop A

Childhood Cancer Basics

When Students Grieve: How Schools Can Help

A Toolbox for Educators: Strategies for Helping Children

Affected by Adult Cancer in the Family

10:00-11:00 a.m. Workshop B

Welcome Back: Working Together to Support the Cancer

Survivor at School

A Toolbox for Educators: Strategies for Helping Children

Affected by Adult Cancer in the Family

Answering Difficult Questions: How Kids Talk About Cancer

11:15 -12:15 p.m. Workshop C

Common Psychosocial Issues for Teens with Cancer, On and Off

Treatment

When Students Grieve: How Schools Can Help

Answering Difficult Questions: How Kids Talk About Cancer

12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch in Ballroom

1:15-2:15 p.m. Keynote Presentation

A Mind Body Toolbox for School Personnel

2:15-2:30 p.m. Evaluations Collected/CEU Certificates Distributed

Kimberly Ann Borin, Ed.D.

Kimberly has worked in public education since 1989 and has served as an elementary school & high school counselor. She currently works as an elementary counselor and earned her doctorate from Rutgers University in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education in 2005. She is a yoga

teacher certified in the Ananda Yoga tradition and also recently became a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader. Kimberly Borin’s company is called, “Encouraging Works!” offering encouragement through Education, Yoga, and Art. She designs programs that help children explore and experience a deeper connection and appreciation of the natural world. In addition, she creates and teaches relaxation skills for every age level.

Workshops

Childhood Cancer Basics Approximately 12,400 children under

the age of 20 are diagnosed with

ch i l dhood cancer each year .

Information will be presented on the

cancers most common to children, the

types of treatment that they may

undergo, and the impact of a cancer

diagnosis on a child’s school

experience.

Workshop Presented by Susan Pillet,

RN, CPNP, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

When Students Grieve:

How Schools Can Help It is important that schools learn how to

recognize, acknowledge and intervene

when a student is coping with grief and

loss. Learn different types of losses that

students may deal with, identify signs of

grief in children and teens, and discover

helpful tools and strategies that best

support grieving students so that they

can effectively learn and thrive.

Workshop Presented by Lisa Athan,

Executive Director, Grief Speaks.

Common Psychosocial Issues for

Teens with Cancer,

On and Off Treatment This workshop will describe the common

developmental, social, academic, and

emotional issues that arise for teenage

cancer patients from diagnosis through

the completion of treatment and beyond.

How these issues are affected by the

larger context of the family and

community will also be touched upon.

Workshop Presented by Libby Klein,

LCSW, Senior Clinical Social Worker of the

Cure and Beyond (CAB) Survivorship

Program of Tomorrows Children’s Institute

at Hackensack University Medical Center.

Answering Difficult Questions:

How Kids Talk About Cancer Knowing how to speak to children who

have a family member affected by

cancer is a concern to parents and

school personnel alike. How do we

recognize “teachable moments” and

make use of them so that all the kids

benefit? In this presentation keys to

working with kids and community

resources will be discussed.

Workshop Presented by Jennifer

Gozlan, MSW, LCSW, Psychosocial

Supervisor, Haven Hospice, JFK Medical

Center, Private Practitioner.

Welcome Back: Working Together

to Support the Cancer Survivor at

School The goal of this program is to educate

school personnel and parents on the

cognitive and physical late effects at

childhood cancer treatments so that

improvements can be made in the

survivors’ transition from clinic to class-

room and a return to “normal” life.

Workshop Presented by Sarah Donangelo,

MS, School Liaison at the Tomorrows

Children's Institute of Hackensack

University Medical Center.

A Toolbox for Educators:

Strategies for Helping Children

Affected by Adult Cancer

in the Family Expand your repertoire of play and

art-based interventions for students

affected by cancer in their family. Learn

about resources that can be used in the

school environment to create a safe space

for helping these children cope with

cancer-related changes and feelings.

Workshop Presented by Crystal Zelman,

LSW, CCLS, at the Carol G. Simon Cancer

Center at Morristown Memorial Hospital.