Death Notification When Children are Involved: Trauma-informed Strategies for Delivering the Most Difficult News to the Most Vulnerable

In this webinar, law enforcement professionals and child trauma experts teamed up to provide law enforcement professionals with useful guidance regarding the challenging task of death notification involving children. Key steps that should be taken and  frequent challenges that arise were reviewed. Presenters shared their experiences with this work and responded to questions from the audience. 

Targeted Audience: Law Enforcement Personnel 

Overall Objective(s): 

• Describe key principles and challenges involved in death notification 
• Describe key elements of implementation of death notification 

Funding Provided By: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of Justice

Dr. Steven Marans

Harris Professor of Child Psychoanalysis, Director of the Childhood Violent Trauma Center Yale School of Medicine

Chief Stephanie Redding

Acting Chief (Ret.), New Haven Department of Police Services

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Recorded 06/03/2019
Recorded 06/03/2019 In this webinar, law enforcement professionals and child trauma experts teamed up to provide law enforcement professionals with useful guidance regarding the challenging task of death notification involving children. Key steps that should be taken and frequent challenges reviewed and frequent challenges that arise were reviewed.  Presenters shared their experiences with this work and responded to questions from the audience.