Grief-Informed Practice: Building Confidence Across Disciplines Practical Tools for Supporting Grieving Individuals in Healthcare, Education, and Mental Health

This interdisciplinary training equips students, faculty, and professionals in mental health, healthcare, education, social services, and expressive arts with practical, grief-informed tools to better understand and support grieving young adults, both in their current roles and future careers.

Grief is universal, yet most professionals receive little to no formal training in how to support individuals after the death of someone close. This two-day workshop addresses that gap by offering discipline-specific strategies grounded in evidence-based practice and real-world application.

EngagedMinds Continuing Education, in partnership with Russell Sage College’s Expressive Arts in Mental Health program and the Center for Informed Grief, presents this training on grief-informed care. Join leading experts in grief, creative arts approaches, and healthcare systems to explore how grief shapes the lives of those we serve—and how we can respond with clarity, compassion, and confidence.

Day 1 will include an in-person keynote presentation on grief-informed practice by Kelly Daugherty, LCSW-R, FT.

Day 2 features an in-person experience with three targeted breakout workshops offered twice, allowing participants to select two. The event will conclude with a panel discussion on grief and young adulthood and a shared closing ritual.

Participants will gain tools, language, and greater confidence for working with grief in their professional roles.

Open to students, faculty, and community professionals.

This training is worth 5.25 credits/hours. 

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