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COMMUNITY GRIEF SUPPORT SERVICE CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Lunch-and-Learn Seminars for Businesses

UAB employees learn coping skills at “Grief Doesn’t Take a Work Break” -- a CGSS “Lunch-and-Learn” seminar sponsored by UAB’s Resource Center.

 

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COMING EVENTS

JUNE 1 – DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING DONATIONS TO “BIRDIES FOR CHARITY”

COMING IN OCTOBER -- CGSS 6th Annual “Lift Your Spirits” Gala and Silent Auction

COMING IN NOVEMBER -- “Hope for the Holidays” – an informative, inspirational community service program for those who have recently lost a loved one or who continue to grieve a prior loss.

COMING NOVEMBER 17 -- “Surviving the Holidays” -- a Lunch-and-Learn seminar for employees of UAB, sponsored by The Resource Center, an Employee Assistance/Counseling Service of the University of Alabama at Birmingham

CGSS Spring Volunteer Training
Draws Hospice Participation

CGSS welcomed trainees from Family Comfort Hospice of Alabaster and Hospice of West Alabama to join us for a day-long Volunteer Training Class on April 17.

Clinical Director Steve Sweatt led participants in a lively combination of lecture and role-play sessions. Steve was assisted by Counseling Intern Misty Bailey and Administrative Director Carol MacMillan as well as CGSS Board members Sandra Craft and Maureen Alexander.

CGSS volunteers are the heartbeat of our organization. They help in so many ways – contacting candidates for support groups, providing hope and encouragement as “grief survivors” and working on special events. It is their generous gifts of time, talent and energy that make so many CGSS services possible.

CGSS Leads Three Groups at Grief Recovery Conference

Clinical Director Steve Sweatt, Administrative Director Carol MacMillan and Counselor John Harris were invited by the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions to facilitate discussion groups in their Grief Recovery Conference at Shocco Springs. Mike Jackson, Director, Discipleship/Family Ministries for the Board of Missions, organized the conference which drew more than 50 church leaders from around the state.

John led the “Grief Recovery Ministry” group for clergy Carol facilitated the Loss of Spouse group and Steve conducted the “Other Significant Losses” group. Other conference leaders included Andy McNiel, Executive Director of the Amelia Center who conducted the “Loss of Child” group and Bill Tucker, Baptist Hospice Chaplain with Alacare, who led a group on “Facing End of Life Issues”.

CGSS thanks the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions for this opportunity to work with them to promote grief education.