�NATIONAL charity Cruse Bereavement Care is calling on parents, carers and professionals working with children and young the great unwashed to look their league on childhood bereavement on Thursday September 18, 2008 at Armagh City Hotel, Northern Ireland.
The group discussion, entitled "Childhood Bereavement in the twenty-first Century: Spectrums of Support for Bereaved Children and Those Who Care For Them", will be open by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People Patricia Lewsley.
Speaking forward of the conference the Commissioner aforesaid: "Giving children and youth people a voice is a key priority for me.
"Children who are bereaved are too often left extinct of the wider family's grieving treat. I think very often we think of the adult first-class honours degree of all and not the young people that are involved.
"Conferences like this are about educating the adults that come into middleman with those young masses and viewing how they can better understand what it is actually like for a young person, who is going through and through that grieving process.
"The work of Cruse help parents and carers see the necessarily of children and young people, and help them through this traumatic time.
"We ar very supportive of the conference".
Childhood Bereavement in the twenty-first Century, taking place at Armagh City Hotel, aims to raise community knowingness and facilitate networking in the orbit of childhood bereavement.
Elaine Roub, Regional Co-Ordinator of Children's and Young People's Services, funded by Big Lottery, aforementioned:
"Up to 30,000 children per year are impacted by the death of individual close to them. That's a vast number of children dealing with destruction and loss.
"Delivering opposite bereavement support services to children and young multitude, alongside services for adults, is an integral percentage of Cruse's work, and a big aspect of that is supporting those adults wHO care for bereaved brigham Young people. There is presently a with child demand for more noesis on how to documentation bereaved children, and this conference addresses that want.
"The league is for parents, carers, professionals and anyone wHO wants to know how they john best support children and young the great unwashed who ar facing the devastation of bereavement".
The Childhood Bereavement in the 21st Century conference will also launch a DVD made by a mathematical group of young people wHO have experienced bereavement.
"The DVD, funded by The Big Deal, is called "Ask The Experts" and it will give conference participants the chance to see what these thomas Young people have created", added Elaine.
"The young people are the experts. They are the ones world Health Organization can secern us what it's like to be bereaved and what support they need".
Childhood Bereavement in the 21st Century: Spectrums of Support for Bereaved Children and Those Who Care For Them takes place on Thursday, September 18 at Armagh City Hotel.
Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People Patricia Lewsley will open the conference and Barbara Monroe, Chief Executive of St Christopher's Hospice and Chair of the Child Bereavement Network will be the keynote speaker. In addition, a range of relevant seminars will be presented by speakers from around Ireland.
For further details on the services Cruse provides information is available at http://www.cruse.org.uk and the Regional Office in Northern Ireland (t) 028 90 792419, (e) northern.ireland@cruse.org.uk
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