10th Annual Pediatric Palliative Care Symposium
November 15, 2024 @ 8:30AM — 3:00PM Central Time (US & Canada)
Sunrise Banks Headquarters: 2525 Wabash Ave St Paul, MN 55114 Get Directions
It Takes a Team!
Caring Considerations for the Ever-Changing Lives of Children with Complex Medical Conditions Supportive care for children that live with a medically complex condition deserves continuing review and discernment. For many children, changes in condition can occur often, each requiring adjustments by all involved in their care. Exacerbations interrupt a previous stability. The stresses of ambiguity, ambivalence about choices, and loss of dreams are often constant for families, clinical staff, volunteers and auxiliary team members. For symposium 2024, participants will address the weight of these stresses and losses… and the trauma when a major disruption occurs. Honest discussions about respectful coping, regular communications, and resiliency supports will be sought and named.
Agenda for the Day:
8:30 am Registration and light breakfast
9:00 am Welcome and introduction
Katie Lindenfelser, Founder, Mary Gaasch, Executive Director
9:20 am Overview of Symposium
Ted Bowman, grief educator and trainer
9:30 am "Changed by my Child: Lessons on Loving, Living, and Dying Well"
Lois Swope
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Presentation by Dr. Lahn Nguyen, Medical Director, Crescent Cove
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm "Grief and Illness Work While Caring for Medically Complex Children"
Jocelyn DeGroot
2:00 pm Panel Discussion with speakers, facilitated by Ted Bowman
2:30 pm Table conversations about insights and learning for the day
2:45 pm Closing Words