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.