The Survivors' Burial and Resource Guide: Step By Step Workbook for Regaining Control - Softcover

Chery, Clementina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979897041 ISBN 13: 9780979897047

Publisher: BookBaby, 2020

Synopsis

Step-by- Step Workbook for Regaining Control This workbook was written by a mother whose 15 year old son was murdered in 1993. In this workbook you will find support and guidance in the immediate aftermath of a loved one's sudden and tragic death, and strategies for finding inner peace in the months and years that follow. Let this workbook help guide you through one of life's most painful experiences. In Cantonese.

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About the Author

Chaplain Clementina Chéry is the President, and CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. With over two decades of experience as a survivor serving families impacted by murder, Chaplain Chéry has developed the best practices in the field of homicide response. Her ultimate goal is to transform society's response to homicide so that all families are treated with dignity and compassion, regardless of the circumstances.Chaplain Chéry and the Peace Institute were selected as 2016 Social Innovators by the Social Innovation Forum in recognition of the Institute's groundbreaking solutions to social problems. Chaplain Chéry has developed innovative tools for families of murder victims and the providers who serve them, including "Always in My Heart: A Workbook for Grieving Children" (2011) and the Survivors Burial and Resource Guide (2013). Chaplain Chéry is also coauthor of an article entitled "Homicide Survivors: Research and Practice Implications" published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2005.Chaplain Chéry has extensive experience training public health professionals and law enforcement officials to better serve families impacted by murder and interrupt cycles of retaliatory violence. She has trained doctors, social workers, psychologists, street workers, religious leaders, police officers, homicide detectives, and other providers at city and state agencies, hospitals, and community-based organizations. Chaplain Chéry has presented at the National Organization for Victims Assistance conference three times. Chaplain Chéry worked closely with the Boston Police Department to establish the Family Resource Officer position on the force to better serve families of homicide victims.Chaplain Chéry has received countless awards in recognition of her courageous leadership and tireless peacemaking work. Most recently, Chéry was named one of Boston's 100 most influential leaders of color in 2016 by Collette Phillips Communications, Inc. She was also given the 2016 Impact Award by Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard University. In 2014, Salem State University Awarded Chaplain Chéry the Champion of Peace Award. She was named Citizen of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers in 2011. She was ordained as a senior chaplain with the International Fellowship of Chaplain, Inc. in February of 2012.

Edition details

• Publisher: BookBaby
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979897041
• ISBN 13: 9780979897047
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100