Living with Loss: A Bereavement Information Evening for the Public
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Living with Loss: A Bereavement Information Evening for the Public

Living with Loss: A Bereavement Information Evening for the Public

Date and time

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:00 - 21:00 GMT+1

Location

Crowne Plaza Dublin - Blanchardstown, an IHG Hotel

Crowne Plaza Dublin D15 T1FD Dublin Ireland

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

This is a free event hosted by the Dublin South Bereavement Network.

When: 7pm to 9pm, Thursday, October 24th, 2024

Where: Crowne Plaza Dublin, Blanchardstown D15 T1FD

Cost: Free


For those unable to attend the event in person, this event will be live streamed via Zoom.

Please select your preference when registering. Please note this event will not be recorded.


Who should attend? 

  • Anyone who is bereaved. The death may have been through illness or sudden death. You may have experienced the loss of a partner, parent, child, grandchild, friend, sibling, work colleague or relative. The death may have been a recent death or a death from many years ago. 
  • Anyone who is supporting a family member or friend who is bereaved. 
  • Anyone who works in the community and may have a role in supporting those who have been bereaved 

 

What will happen at the event? 

  • Tea/coffee on arrival (7pm) 
  • An information talk by a professional working in the area of bereavement (7.30pm) 
  • Q&A session with a panel of people with lived experience of bereavement (8pm) 
  • Bereavement service stands. Representatives from a range of local bereavement supports will host a stand at the event.  


Guest Speakers:  Niamh Finucane (Coordinator of Social Work & Bereavement Service, St Francis Hospice Dublin) 
She has worked there for 18 years, initially as a Senior Social Worker on the Community Palliative Care Team and then in the In-patient unit, moving in the last 10 years to her current role. Niamh also has previous experience in Child Welfare & Child Protection work, fostering and Medical Social Work in an acute hospital setting.  

Niamh has written multiple articles and presented on the role of social work in palliative care and working in bereavement, including lecturing on MSc in Palliative care and MSc in Social Work. She is the social work representative on the National Clinical Programme in Palliative Care and has been involved in national projects on the development of palliative care and the development of bereavement services.   


Bereavement service stands

There will be representatives from a range of local bereavement support services at the event. Attendees can take away some information leaflets about the services and, if they wish, can talk with service representatives about the support they provide.


How do I get there?

Crowne Plaza Dublin, Blanchardstown is serviced by the number 7 and number 4 bus routes


If you have any queries please email bereavementdevelopment@hospicefoundation.ie


This event is kindly supported by Irish Hospice Foundation and HSE Mental Health Services Dublin North City & County. 



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Irish Hospice Foundation

We, the Irish Hospice Foundation, are a national charity dedicated to all matters relating to dying, death and bereavement in Ireland. We work to ensure that no-one will face death or bereavement without the care and support they need regardless of the place of death. For the past thirty years, we have been working in partnership with others to make excellence in bereavement care a national priority. We do this through many of our activities such as, awareness-raising, training and education, providing bereavement information and working collaboratively with many organisations, both state and voluntary, to enhance bereavement care provision in Ireland.

Please see our website for resources, which include ways to support yourself when you are grieving, ways to help others and our new Care and Inform hub (www.hospicefoundation.ie). The Irish Hospice Foundation , in partnership with the HSE, provide a national bereavement suppoprt line. The support line provides a first response to those affected by bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic. This FREE support line operates from 10am to 1pm, Monday to Friday - 1800 80 70 77.