Events & Happenings
Compassionate Connections:
Good Grief Meals
June 5, 2024
3 p.m.
Troy's 105 Diner
1286 NC-105, Boone
June 6, 2024
4 p.m.
Mayflower Seafood
303 Blowing Rock Blvd., Lenoir
The Good Grief Meal is sponsored through Ashewood Grief and Counseling Services, grief support services of AMOREM, and is one of many opportunities offered to help individuals of all ages and families cope with the loss of people they love. The Good Grief Meal is a time of fellowship and socialization for individuals who are grieving. AMOREM reserves meeting space and participants are responsible for the cost of their own meal. Locations and times are subject to change. Please verify before attendance. Contact Nichole Annas at nannas@amoremsupport.org or Brielle Kaluzny at bkaluzny@amoremsupport.org or 828-754-0101 with any questions.
Advance Care Planning Workshop
June 13, 2024
1:30 p.m.
Caldwell Senior Center
650A Pennton Avenue SW, Lenoir, NC
AMOREM and the Caldwell Senior Center will partner to offer an Advance Care Planning Workshop at no cost to the community on the second Thursday of each month. The workshop will be held June 13, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. at the Caldwell Senior Center in Lenoir.
Advance Directives: Living Wills and Healthcare Powers of Attorney are gifts to your family. Deciding, discussing and documenting your healthcare wishes helps ensure your healthcare wishes are known and honored. It also gives you peace of mind that you have made appropriate preparations. Notaries and witnesses will be available to help anyone who wants to complete their documents at the clinic. Space is limited and registration is required. For more information, or to register, call 828.758.2883.
Living with Grief: Diagnosis—Prolonged Grief Disorder
On Demand through April 15, 2025. Register by July 12, 2024.
AMOREM, your local, non-profit hospice and palliative medicine provider, in partnership with Pendry's Lenoir Funeral Home, will offer Hospice Foundation of America’s (HFA) annual Living with Grief® Virtual Program, Diagnosis—Prolonged Grief Disorder, on demand through April 15, 2025. Registered participants will receive a program link, downloadable handouts, and a payment code for 2.5 continuing education credits, if desired.
The 2.5-hour program highlights prolonged grief disorder as a new addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed., text rev.) (DSM-5-TR). Panelists will explore the nature of the disorder and, using a case study approach, examine the diagnosis of the condition, when to refer for treatment and effective evidence-based approaches to treatment.
Frank Sesno, former CNN anchor, will lead the panel of noted authorities that includes: Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv; Wendy Lichtenthal, PhD, FT; Sonya Lott, PhD and M. Katherine Shear, MD.
This program will be practical for individuals and all levels of professionals—entry level, intermediate or advanced. The information provided will be useful to healthcare clinicians, social service clinicians and others working in hospice, palliative care, counseling, hospital, nursing home, funeral home or faith community environments. 2.5 hours of continuing education credits are available at no cost to participants until April 15, 2025, through HFA for nurses, social workers, counselors, clergy and more. For HFA’s list of board approvals, go to https://www.hospicefoundation.org.
The complimentary presentation and CE credits are provided as part of the community grief support services of AMOREM because of their belief that it can improve quality of life and with the support of Pendry’s Lenoir Funeral Home. Registration is required by July 12, 2024. To learn more about this program or to register, contact Lisa Caviness, director of public relations, at 828.754.0101 or lcaviness@amoremsupport.org.
Adult Volunteer Training
July 16 and July 18, 2024
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Valdese Campus
1721 Enon Road, Valdese, NC
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Do you have the compassionate spirit needed to be a companion for someone’s journey? AMOREM is hosting a two-day training session in July for adults who are interested in becoming hospice volunteers.
An array of topics will be covered to help prepare attendees to become successful volunteers. Participants will learn about the strong community history and commitment of AMOREM, the physical, spiritual, and psychosocial issues hospice patients face, and much more from AMOREM's staff of end-of-life care experts.
Currently, there is a need for volunteers to provide companionship to patients in the patient’s homes or long-term-care facilities. Other specific needs include volunteers who can provide transportation to doctors’ appointments and shopping excursions for patients, etc., and veterans to visit and make Veterans Honoring Veterans presentations to patients who are veterans.
Attendance is required at each session and meals will be provided. For more information or to register for the July 2024 adult volunteer training opportunity, contact us at 828.754.0101 or contact Cyndi Akins at cakins@amoremsupport.org.
Adult Volunteer Training
July 23 and July 25, 2024
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Boone Campus
137 Moonstruck Lane, Boone, NC
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Do you have the compassionate spirit needed to be a companion for someone’s journey? AMOREM is hosting a two-day training session in July for adults who are interested in becoming hospice volunteers.
An array of topics will be covered to help prepare attendees to become successful volunteers. Participants will learn about the strong community history and commitment of AMOREM, the physical, spiritual, and psychosocial issues hospice patients face, and much more from AMOREM's staff of end-of-life care experts.
Currently, there is a need for volunteers to provide companionship to patients in the patient’s homes or long-term-care facilities. Other specific needs include volunteers who can provide transportation to doctors’ appointments and shopping excursions for patients, etc., and veterans to visit and make Veterans Honoring Veterans presentations to patients who are veterans.
Attendance is required at each session and meals will be provided. For more information or to register for the July 2024 adult volunteer training opportunity, contact us at 828.754.0101 or contact Cyndi Akins at cakins@amoremsupport.org or Lorie Fidler at lfidler@amoremsupport.org.