Help, Health, Healing & Hope. Grieving During Transitional Years: Interventions and Healing for Teens & Young Adults
Description
(Please note, this session will present the same content as the July 31 in-person afternoon session.)
As part of the Engaging Neighborhoods Training Series in partnership with ADAMH of Franklin County, this training will highlight grieving for teens and young adults.
While grief is a normal reaction to death, youth grieve differently than older adults. The loss of a significant person impacts all facets of their lives, including feelings, reactions, behaviors, relationships, school, work, etc. Adolescents and young adults are uniquely facing several milestones that can impact their developmental trajectory. This session will educate and help equip participants to understand theoretical frameworks of grief, understand and assess grief’s impact on youth and provide hands-on interventions that support adolescents and young adults ages 15-25 years old. Interventions include grief education, expressive modalities, story sharing, continuing bonds, building coping skills and fostering community.
Target Audience: Licensed Professionals who work with transitional age youth and young adults including but not limited to social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, chemical dependency treatment and prevention professionals, nurses, community health workers, teachers, health educators and public health professionals.
This training is approved for 3 continuing education clock hours for counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists in the state of Ohio.
This training is approved for 3 continuing education clock hours for prevention professionals in domain P6 - Professional Growth & Responsibility (3) in the state of Ohio.
Deadline for registration is Aug. 5, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET
Learning Objectives
After completing this training, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the definitions of grief and theoretical frameworks.
- Increase knowledge of typical and complicated grief reactions during significant transitional years.
- Identify ways to start the conversation and approach grief work with adolescents and young adults.
- Discover hands-on interventions to help youth navigate changes related to grief.
Presented by:
Sarah See MS, LPC, CTP
Sarah See MS, LPC, CTP, is with OhioHealth Community Grief Services and has her undergraduate degree in family studies with a concentration in child life and her master’s degree in community mental health counseling. See’s passion for bereavement work started while working as a certified child life specialist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital for 11 years, providing support in the Pediatric Intensive Care and Burn/Trauma Units. Within this role, she provided education about developmentally appropriate understanding of death, provided support surrounding sharing the difficult news of a death to siblings and/or peers, and engaged patients and their families in memory-making activities. For the past five years, See has been a child and adolescent bereavement counselor with the School Outreach Program at OhioHealth. Within this role, See provides individual and group counseling to children, teens and young adults,; grief education to parents and professionals,; and grief support and crisis response following a death within a school community.
Lauri Yersavich, MS, LSW, CTP
Lauri Yersavich, MS, LSW, CTP, is a licensed social worker and certified trauma professional. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology and a master’s degree in community mental health counseling. She has been the team lead and coordinator of the OhioHealth school-based grief support program and a grief counselor with the organization since 2002. Yersavich is a member of the Franklin County Suicide Prevention Coalition. Yersavich provides individual and group grief counseling to children, teens, and young adults in school and office-based settings in Central Ohio. She provides education to school counselors, social workers, parents, and community providers related to the impact of grief, trauma, and loss on young people. Yersavich works with area school districts to develop and/or update their crisis response plans. The OhioHealth school-based program also provides on-site grief support and crisis response following a death within a school community, including suicide postvention.
Training Completion Requirements
- Participants are required to stay logged in for the Q&A portion of the training for successful completion, as it is part of the educational portion of this training.
- Training completion is based on timed attendance as tracked by Zoom.
- Each participant must complete a training evaluation within TWO (2) business days of the session, by the deadline stated during the training.
- Certificates will be emailed to participants within 7 business days to those who meet training requirements.
- Participants who submit an active and eligible license number issued by the Ohio CSWMFT Board and/or the Ohio CDP Board will be reported to CE Broker within 14 business days.
Accessibility
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. You may request accommodation or inquire about accessibility as part of the Zoom registration process or by emailing our Office of Continuing Education at cswce@osu.edu.
Each of our live virtual trainings will include live captioning provided by Verbit/Automatic Sync Technologies (AST).
Please contact us at cswce@osu.edu should you need further assistance.
Contact Information
Please contact our Office of Continuing Education team via email at cswce@osu.edu with any questions or concerns.
Accreditation
The Ohio State University College of Social Work provides approvals for continuing education for counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists that are accepted by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Work, and Marriage and Family Therapist (CSWMFT) Board.
The Ohio State University College of Social Work has been approved by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals (CDP) Board as a provider of Continuing Education, approval number: 50-24068.