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ACPE Academy Webinar Series:
Do You Really See Me?
Three-Part Webinar Series: Sign-up for 1, 2, or all 3 webinars!
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“See me! Touch me! Feel me!” sang Tommy in the great rock musical by the Who. Intellectual and developmental disabilities are a diagnostic category but not an illness or disease. People with labels such as cerebral palsy, autism and intellectual disability also get sick and deal with other life threatening diseases. However, they and their families and/or caregivers often experience typical acute care hospitals as risky and dangerous places because of assumptions about disability, issues in communication, and judgments about quality of life, grief, and loss. Pastoral caregivers thus have the opportunity to combine sensitive care of individuals, families, and staff with advocacy that addresses stereotypes, assumptions, and gaps in their care and support.
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An Introduction to Understanding of Models of
Disability and Terminology
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
12:00 PM Eastern
Dimensions of Grief and Loss in the Lives of People with
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and
Pastoral Strategies for Addressing Them
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
12:00 PM Eastern
Pastoral Care and Advocacy Beyond the Hospital Walls
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
12:00 PM Eastern
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Bill Gaventa, Director, Summer Institute on Theology and Disability and Collaborative on Faith and Disability, has spent his pastoral/chaplaincy career working in both institutional and community settings that serve and support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. He is a CPE Supervisor, now on retired status.
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Meggie Kobb, Staff Chaplain at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania who covers the Emergency Department, ED Observation Unit, and the Psychiatric Emergency Evaluation Center. She did a CPE residency at Penn, and, as the proud mother of a ten year old son on the autism spectrum, has used both her training and experience as chaplain with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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