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Want to volunteer?
Visiting Nurse of Manchester & Southern NH is starting its second Companion Volunteer Training Program. Training will consist of four sessions every Friday from January 8 through January 29 from 10:00am to 11:30am at VNA 33 So. Commercial Street. The focus of the training will be compassionate listening, concerns of the elderly, cognitive aging and education on limits and boundaries.
The comprehensive training program will equip participants with the necessary skills to provide companionship to our homebound patients through visits and phone contact.
The training will be lead by Elizabeth Sheard, MA, and Professor of Aging. Please contact Linda Krisch, Coordinator of Volunteer Resources at 663-4008 or e-mail lkrisch@elliot-hs.org to pre-register or for more information. All volunteers are invited to participate in this informative training program. |
Along the way...
Stepping Stones helps children grieve
Pam Clark Gatcomb, a volunteer bereavement counselor for “Stepping Stones” learned this through a class exercise nine years ago when she took the hospice training course. She was asked to draw her family at the dinner table and one member was crossed out. The instructor told her to imagine how as a child she would get along without this person and how she would grieve.
Pam now helps local children through Stepping Stones, a bereavement support group for children and teens between the ages of 5 and 18. The group meets at Brookside Congregational Church.
As Pam learned through her experience, kids grieve differently from adults and it is hard for everyone in the family to grieve together.
“Kids, I’ve found, grieve in small pockets. They often delay their own grief in order to protect a parent who is struggling. Several years later, their pain comes out in different ways, and everyone wonders, ‘What’s happening?’”‘“No matter what your age or experience, when you lose someone you love, you don’t get over it,” Pam says. “But you can go on in remarkable ways and learn that even though that one seat at the table was empty once, in time, love will come along to fill its place.”’
Sign up now! CSNH membership price increase in 2010
Now is the time to lock-in to low Cremation Society of New Hampshire membership fees. Effective January 2010, the Cremation Society of New Hampshire will be increasing the price of all cremation packages.
Any member with an unpaid balance as of this date will have their account updated to reflect the new price.
To lock-in at the current lower price,you can prepay your account balance. This can be done by paying in full or making payments as long as the entire balance is paid in full prior to January 1, 2010.
If you have any questions, please call Jeff Plasz at 518-1015, or 800-648-9430.
CSNH and NHobit.com get social
Are you on Twitter? Follow us for the latest obits, services information, events and much more! www.twitter.com/CremationNH. And coming soon a Facebook fan page so you can keep up to date with CSNH.
Also, in a recent edition of this newsletter, we told you about a new online obituary and memorial site, www.nhobit.com. This site, powered by Tributes.com allows you to view and search all New Hampshire obituaries in one place and create lasting tributes to a loved one. Now the information available on this site is even easier to get - you can follow them on Twitter or become a fan of their page on Facebook! Search NHObit.com on Facebook and visit www.twitter.com/NHObit.
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