Lori’s Perinatal Bereavement Experience:
Perinatal Bereavement Advocate 2004 to present.
Peer Support of newly bereaved families 2005 to present.
Healing from the Start project 2007.
“Healing from the Start” (medical coaching manual) 2007 to present
www.healingfromthestart.com.
AMEND participant/supporter/speaker 2005 to present.
Tampa General Hospital Speaking Engagements (OB Transitional Nurses Classes): Aug 2007, Jan 2007, July 2008 and March 2009.
Tampa General Hospital Speaking Engagement - February 5, 2009 (for the Oncology medical staff who take care of newly bereaved families after they have been moved from Labor & Delivery to their floor.)
Tampa General Hospital’s (Memorial Service) Speaking Engagements: Oct. 2007, Oct. 2008 and Oct. 2009.
First Candle’s Peer Support Training – via conference call & webinar 2008.
First Candle’s Online Stillbirth Loop 2008 to present.
First Candle Peer Support Volunteer 2008 to present.
Helped implement Tampa General Hospital’s Perinatal Bereavement Conference Oct. 14, 2008.
Speaker & Participant at Tampa General Hospital’s Perinatal Bereavement Conference Oct. 14, 2008.
Participant of PLIDA’s 16th Annual Perinatal Bereavement Conference in Clearwater, FL. Oct. 16, 17, 18 & 19th 2008.
Organized & led the ‘In Person’ First Candle “Peer Support Training” in Tampa, FL. Oct. 25, 2008 – Lead person was supposed to have been Sherokee Ilse (Sherokee became ill and I stepped in for her at the last minute.)
Subsequent Pregnancy Peer Support Person (for a bereaved parent after enduring the death of a baby and was in a new pregnancy.)
Volunteer (assistant to the bereavement photographers) for “Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.” 2009
June 2009 – Completed the following bereavement classes from Bereavement Services >(the RTS People:) 1. Communicating with the Bereaved. 2. Theoretical Framework of Grief. 3. Caring for the Family Experiencing Perinatal Loss – An Introduction to RTS.
August 2009: Spoke to employees on Perinatal Bereavement and how to offer their co-worker grief support.
December 2009: Babies Remembered Consulting (Sherokee Ilse & Associates) – Signed on with Sherokee Ilse to be a Perinatal Bereavement Consultant.
Spoke at the “Perinatal Loss – Beyond The Basics” Babies Remembered Workshop in Sarasota, Florida (Sarasota Memorial Hospital Feb. 22, 2010.
USF OB/GYN Physicians Group Grand Rounds guest speaker – April 7, 2010 (I spoke on “How To Support a Family after the Dianosis and Peer Support.”)
