How to Help Young Children Through a Loved One's Cancer
Date: Friday,Jun 2, 2023
Time: 1pm PST/2pm MTN/ 3pmCST/4pm EST
We are happy to be partnered with Cancer Support Community Los Angeles on this Webinar.
While young children often lack the cognitive capacity to comprehend what cancer is, they still respond to changes in routine, caregivers and feelings being expressed in the home. There are many tools parents can use to help their children, including using intentional language and children's books to introduce the concept of cancer, organizing a small intimate care team and predictable schedule for children, and finding creative ways to maintain physical contact and quality time with children even through cancer treatment. Join this webinar for more tools and resources that will leave you feeling empowered.
This webinar will be lead and facilitated by Bright Spot Network’s Director of Programs and Community Outreach Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C.
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C is the Director of Programs and Community Outreach at Bright Spot Network, which provides a program of support to parents with cancer who have young children. She has over 14 years of clinical and program experience working with families facing cancer. Prior to her position at Bright Spot Network she was the Program Manager at Gilda’s Club Madison for 13 years. Her professional passion is supporting kids and families who are navigating cancer, shaped largely by her father having lung cancer when she was a child and her step-father’s diagnosis of liver cancer when she was a young adult.
Carissa has been a member of the Association of Oncology Social Work since 2015 and presently sits as co-chair of the Youth, Families and Cancer Special Interest Group. In addition to her position at Bright Spot Network she has a small psychotherapy practice and is a Long Term Lecturer at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at UW Madison.
