Vision 30
and
Patrick Henry Family Services
is excited to bring you
Reproductive Grief Care Training
• Broaden your understanding of grief and loss after miscarriage and abortion
• Explore how to be a safe place for hurting men and women
• Provide healing resources to help those in your community
Disenfranchised Grief & Reproductive Story
A. Impact on Men, Women and Families
- Reproductive loss in the United States
- Perinatal Grief Scale Studies
- Stories from men
B. Disenfranchised Grief [Doka]
- Grief not culturally acknowledged
- Impact on grieving process
- Impact on helpers
C. Reproductive Story [Jaffe & Diamond]
- Bonding begins before conception
- Meaning of Loss
- Depth of Loss
Reproductive Grief & Loss
D. What Grieving Looks Like
- Healthy grief [Jaffe & Diamond]
- Tasks of grieving [Worden]
- Find enduring connection
E. What Healing Looks Like
- Healing Pathways
- Identify losses
- Letting go of the pain
Being a Safe Place
F. Enfranchising Grief
- Acknowledge loss
- Validate Grief
- Best practices
G. Next Steps
- Self-care
- Resources: digital, printed, help-lines, local help
About the speaker:
Rebecca Capuano, MSW
Rebecca currently serves as Client Services Manager at the Blue Ridge Women’s Center, a pregnancy medical clinic in Roanoke, Virginia. She also coordinates the Center’s reproductive loss services and provides training in reproductive loss throughout the country as a certified trainer in Reproductive Grief Care with Life Perspectives out of San Diego, California. Rebecca holds a Master of Social Work degree from East Carolina University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Spanish from Carson-Newman College. Rebecca has functioned in both direct care and administrative roles in service to at-risk populations throughout her career, including managing group homes for at-risk youth and developing a juvenile day treatment program in Wilmington, North Carolina.
