Death Education Association to Hold Local Community Outreach Event on Youth Violence

For Immediate Release

April 1, 2008

Media Contact: Deanna Marchetti
Association for Death Education and Counseling®
Phone: 847/509- 0403
E-mail: dmarchetti@adec.org

Death Education Association to Hold Local Community Outreach Event on Youth Violence

Violent Death and Grief Among Youth: Related Causes and Effective Strategies for Outreach

Deerfield, IL – The Association for Death and Education Counseling (ADEC) invites you to attend its annual community outreach event Tuesday, April 29th, prior to its annual conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Each year, the local hosts of the ADEC Annual Conference organize a free-of-charge educational outreach event in order for the community to gather together and discuss important topics in dying, death and bereavement.

This year’s community program, Violent Death and Grief Among Youth: Related Causes and Effective Strategies for Outreach, will explore the possible causes of youth violence including disenfranchised & unresolved grief, the dangers of stigmatizing both the offenders and victims of youth violence, as well as warning signs for kids who are at-risk. It will also focus on cultural rituals surrounding death and how to talk about death with youth, especially those who are at-risk and difficult to reach.

EVENT DETAILS:
Date:               Tuesday April 29, 2008
Time:               6:30-8:30 p.m. (refreshments to follow)
Location:         Dawson College, Room 5B-16  (Sherbrooke St. entrance)
Cost:                Free-of-charge to anyone interested

ADEC RESOURCE PANNELISTS:
Tashel C. Bordere, Ph.D. CT
Assistant Professor of Child and Family Development Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Central Missouri , Warrensburg, Missouri

Deiann E. Sobers
Graduate Diploma - Community Politics and the Law
Assistant Director, The National Assistance Board, Barbados

Heather L. Servaty-Seib, Ph.D.
First Vice President of ADEC
Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology
Department of Educational Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

ADEC ANNUAL CONFERENCE LOCAL HOSTS:
Dawn Cruchet, BM, MEd,CT,(Montréal) and Phil Carverhill, PhD, (Saskatoon)

For more information about the event, contact Dawn Cruchet, 514/232-3592, dawncruchet@sympatico.ca. For details about the ADEC 30th Annual Conference, visit the ADEC Web site at www.adec.org.

The Association for Death Education and Counseling is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence and recognizing diversity in death education, care of the dying, grief counseling and research in thanatology. Based on quality research and theory, the association provides information, support and resources to its international, multicultural, multidisciplinary membership and through it, to the public.

Updated: April 24, 2008