Posted by Joshua T. Warweg
Hosted by Joshua T. Warweg & Kriste Kidd
Date: | Nov. 4, 2014 |
Start time: | 5:00 p.m. (EDT) |
End time: | 7:00 p.m. (EDT) |
Address: |
LOMA Coffee 239 North Market Street Wilmington, DE 19801 19801 United States |
No Donations will be requested. |
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About this Death Cafe
The Governor of Delaware through a Proclamation to the State has recognized the first week of November as 'Grief Awareness Week.' As a response to this, the Delaware Grief Awareness Consortium as requested hosts for Grief Awareness events. Joshua T. Warweg of Wilmington, DE and Kriste Kidd of Frederick, MD along with our sponsor LOMA Coffee of LOMA Ministries, LLC in Wilmington, DE will host Wilmington's first Death Cafe in effort to promote discussion and awareness of death and grief. Our event will be hosted by LOMA Coffee, a very popular and trendy cafe in Wilmington's downtown historic/arts district. The event will be published and promoted in various media including the Mental Health Association in Delaware and the Delaware Grief Awareness Consortium.
About Joshua T. Warweg & Kriste Kidd
Joshua T. Warweg, MA, CPRP, ICCDP-Diplomate
Graduate from Hood College with a Master of Arts in Thanatology. I work for the Delware Department of Health and Social Services' Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. I am a consultant for the US Department of Justice Settelement Agreement with the State of Delaware. I serve on the Steering Committee for the Delaware Grief Awareness Consortium. My interests lay with trauma-related psychiatric and substance use disorders as a result of various types of death and working with individuals in recovery from mental illness. Also, loss of life as a result of long-term psychiatric institutionalization.
Kriste Kidd
A student in the Master of Arts Thanatology program at Hood College and previous host of Death Cafe in Frederick, Maryland. Her interests are within substance using behaviors as a result of unresolved grief. Kriste is a certified funeral celebrant and works for Capital Caring hospice in Virginia.
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Please also see: http://degac.org/?page_id=655