Name: Life After Loss- Addressing Grief Aftermath: Coping, Meaning Making, and Healing In the Weeks, Months, and Years After Loss
Start: 2026-01-22T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-23T12:00:00-05:00

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Life After Loss- Addressing Grief Aftermath: Coping, Meaning Making, and Healing In the Weeks, Months, and Years After Loss

January 22, 2026 @ 9:00 am - January 23, 2026 @ 12:00 pm

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Free

Join us at the Center for Applied Research Solutions to create and engage in rich learning that focuses on grief work that we often miss: the long-term experiences, processes, and impacts of grief for young people, and how we as providers, systems leaders, and culture builders can skill ourselves up to attend to the aftermath with as much attention as the acute.

Thanks to the generous support of the New York Life Foundation (New York Life Insurance Company) and the National Alliance for Children’s Grief (NACG), we are offering this event to help you build the skills to navigate the long-term impacts of grief.

🗓️ WHEN: Thursday, January 22 & Friday, January 23, 2026
💻 WHERE: Virtual (join from anywhere!)
💸 COST: FREE

What you’ll gain:
– Strategies to address trauma, memorialization, and commemoration.
– Skills to interrupt isolation and support long-term healing.
– A deeper understanding of how grief can encompass both joy and deep sadness.

Day 1: Main Summit — Jan 22
⏰ 9:00am–2:00pm PT / 12:00–5:00pm ET

Day 2: Providers’ Processing Space — Jan 23
⏰ 9:00am–12:00pm PT / 12:00–3:00pm ET

Day 1 – Thursday, January 22nd – topics will focus on the aftermath: the weeks, months, and years after big events and how grief can be both experiences of joy and celebration and isolation and deep sadness. Day 1 of the summit includes talks from/with Teddy McGlynn-Wright, workshops with Carla Fernandez, Tina Rocha, Samira Moosavi and our team, two panels of educators, behavioral health providers, and leaders (Taj Jensen, Amy Castellanos, Shefa Obaid, Desralynn Cole, CPPM, Meghan Graham, LCSW, Scott Lindstrom, Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo,PhD, and more) sharing how they navigate grief aftermath leadership post wildfire, hurricane, state violence, substance use, and social media harm. That amazing day closes with Dr. Zelana Montminy, whose words of reflection on focus and griefscape will move us all.

Importantly, Day 2 – Friday, January 23rd – focuses on provider processing: often, providers (whether clinical providers, systems leaders, or educators) hold their own grief metabolization on pause while they support children and youth in acute need, featuring an opening talk by Candice Rose Valenzuela, a discussion with Ebony Sinnamon-Johnson, Jerica Coffey, and Jesus Solorio, LMFT, a somatic workshop with Sue Kuyper, and a closing art practice with Oriana Ides.

Through meaningful workshops, panels, keynotes, and discussion forums that focus on grief aftermath, we will support professionals who work with young people to feel efficacious, empowered, and energized with strategies and skills that support young people in navigating all that comes with aftermath coping and healing: addressing trauma and grief activation, memorialization and commemoration, interrupting isolation and disenfranchised grief, structural strategies to ensure ongoing, responsive care.