Good Grief: Community Seminar Tonight 6:30PM

An Evening with Maria Trozzi, M.Ed.

Mount Saint Charles Academy - Chapel Hall

800 Logee St.

Woonsocket, RI 02895

September 24, 2015 6:30PM

Free Admission
Helping Our Children Develop Resilience as They Face Life’s Stressful Events

Join Maria Trozzi for an interactive evening where she will explore the typical and not-so-typical speed bumps that children and adolescents encounter growing up in 2015. When children are necessarily facing these speed bumps, parents often search for words, a developmentally informed approach to guiding their children. Trozzi’s refreshing and honest approach focuses on developmentally informed strategies that are often counter-intuitive for parents, but help children master the coping skills that promote resilience.

Topics:

Dealing with life’s disappointments: when our Children hurt, what to say and what not to say
Grampy no longer remembers my name: when illness strikes a family member
The world news events: navigating them for any aged child
When Rover is old and tired: talking about death with any aged child

About Maria

Maria Trozzi, M.Ed., is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine; Director of the nationally renowned Good Grief Program at Boston Medical Center, a consultant to the Child Development Unit at Children’s Hospital and an author. Her credentials and expertise have established her as one of the foremost experts in the country on resilience as families, schools and communities face crises. For the past three years, she has provided individual and group consultation and training workshops to Naval Special Warfare operators (SEALS) and their families’ pre- and post- deployment.

After Boston’s Marathon bombing, she provided crisis debriefing to the health care first responders as well as nearby affected schools and community organizations.

In the wake of the recent tragedy in Newtown, she continues to provide consultation, lectures and training to schools affected. She has provided crisis consultation after Columbine at Littleton, Colorado, Hurricane Katrina, at Ground Zero in the aftermath of 9/11 and in Grenada following Hurricane Ivan.

Since 1991, she has lectured nationally to professional audiences in every major city with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton as a regular faculty member of the National Seminar Series.

For nearly twenty years, as Director of the Good Grief Program, her training for educators and healthcare professionals focuses on promoting resilience in the face of loss via strategies that strengthen coping skills for families, institutions and communities. Immediately following 9/11, Trozzi’s principal work expanded to care for the loved ones and their families of the victims of the two planes that had emanated from Boston.

She is a frequent contributor to both print and electronic media. She has appeared with Dr. Brazelton as co-host of his national television show “What Every Baby Knows” several times as well as several national news programs including “Larry King Live”, Early Show, CNN, NBC, ABC.

Her first book, Talking With Children About Loss, was published by Putnam-Penguin and continues to be an essential reference for parents and professionals. She has authored several chapters in pediatric and academic textbooks, including research recently published in the December, 2012, Journal of Palliative Medicine.

She lives in Boston and West Yarmouth and maintains a private practice dedicated to helping families face stressful life events.


This event is FREE and open to the public. Phone HOLT Funeral Home to reserve a seat 401 769-0133