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Bereavement Support Groups

Circle Home’s Hospice Program provides the following free community bereavement support groups:
Now What? Life after Loss, on the second Tuesday of every month at 4:30 pm, at the chapel at D’Youville Center for Advanced Therapy, sponsored by Lowell General Hospital.

For more information or to register, please contact Johanna Kiefner at 978-459-9343, ext. 85883.

Financial & Community Resource Fair

Come to this Free event to learn about:
Counseling services                           Foreclosure prevention
Financial education                           Senior program
Housing program                               Banking products/services
Health services                                   Resources/referral program

Conversations with Li

Conversations with Li is a one-woman dialogue based on her award-winning book that illustrates the challenges a caregiver faces and the need for humor and creativity to persevere.  Elinor Fuchs, a professor of drama at Yale University and author of Making an Exit, shares details of how years of working in the theater taught her about caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s.

If Only: Free Movie Showing

Jim Wahlberg, actor, writer, producer and Director of the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, will be presenting the Lowell premier of the award winning film “IF ONLY” to the entire Greater Lowell Community. The event will include “Hidden In Plain Sight” a teenage bedroom exhibit aimed to help parents/guardian detect addiction, tables with information and resources, a viewing of the film “If Only”, and a panel discussion with local officials.

Training on Building Coalition Capacity & Infrastructure

Topics: Organizational structure/governance; roles/responsibilities; decision-making structures; conflict resolution; membership recruitment, engagement, and retention, facilitation.
Audience: Coalition leaders and members, teams, and partners working towards community health.
Lead Trainer: Andrea Freeman, MA Public Health Association
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Training on Sustainability & Resource Planning

Topics: ABC’s of Sustainability Planning, role of stakeholders, use of sustainability template tool
Audience: Coalition leaders and partners planning or in the process of implementing community health initiatives, including policy and systems change.
Lead Trainer: Daisy Ortega, M. Ed, Associate Director of Training and Capacity Building at Health Resources in Action
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