McGill Cares Webcast - Coping with Grief

Join us on June 3 at noon for the next webcast in our new weekly series, McGill Cares, designed to support informal caregivers.  During candid, 30-minute interviews with leading experts, Claire Webster, Alzheimer Care Consultant and Founder of the McGill Dementia Education Program, will explore topics related to caring for a loved one with dementia.

Coping with Grief

Corrie Sirota is a clinical social worker and sessional lecturer at the McGill School of Social Work who specializes in loss, bereavement and stress management. She is the author of Someone Died...Now What? A Personal and Professional Perspective on Coping with Loss and Grief. A co-host of the weekly radio show Life Unrehearsed on CJAD, she is also a well-known speaker and facilitator of psychosocial prevention and interventions for schools, camp staff, community agencies and organizations. She will speak about how COVID-19 is affecting the way we grieve and how gratitude can help the grieving process. She will also suggest ways to honour the memory of a person who died and provide insight on how to support a grieving family member or friend.

This webcast is free and open to the public.

Click here beginning at 12:00 pm EDT on Wednesday, June 3, to tune in live.