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LEAP Speaker Series – Parenting Through Cancer
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Join us for our next LEAP Speaker Series webinar!
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C, Bright Spot Network’s Director of Programs, will explore the key components of what kids and teens need when a parent has cancer. She will address how to talk with children of all ages, effective coping techniques to help them process their big questions and feelings, and valuable resources to help them feel supported.
About Our LEAP Speaker: 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 15 years of clinical and program experience working with families facing cancer. 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. 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.
After registering at the link above, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom details.
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