Offering Support in Crisis/Traumatic Situations Issue #51, May 2018 1 ChiPPS E-Journal Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Care Issue #51; May, 2018 Issue Topic: Offering Support in Crisis/Traumatic Situations Welcome to the 51st issue of the ChiPPS E-Journal. This issue of our E-Journal explores topics related to offering support in crisis or traumatic situations. Professionals and volunteers whose primary work involves caring for children, adolescents, and families in pediatric hospice and palliative care programs occasionally find themselves confronted with crisis or traumatic situations in the communities they serve. How can professionals and volunteers best respond to such situations? How can they best prepare themselves to be helpful in these encounters? This issue seeks to provide at least a beginning in discussing these matters. This E-Journal is produced by ChiPPS (the Children’s Project on Palliative/Hospice Services), a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and, in particular, by ChiPPS’s E-Journal Workgroup, co-chaired by Christy Torkildson and Ann Fitzsimons. Archived issues of this publication are available at www.nhpco.org/pediatrics. Comments about the activities of ChiPPS, its E-Journal Workgroup, or this issue are welcomed. We also encourage readers to suggest topics, contributors, and specific ideas for future issues. Our tentative plan for the remainder of 2018 is to develop issues on caring for diverse families/populations, as well as adolescents and young adults. If you have any thoughts about these topics, contributors, or future issues, please contact Christy at
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