Will be a recorded presentation available on our YouTube channel and posted on our Facebook Page beginning Friday, 12/4
Description:
Cancer caregivers are facing extra challenges during the pandemic and holiday season. Learn specific tips to delegate tasks, reduce stress, and increase connection this year. We will practice a few coping strategies during the workshop that will help
you avoid burnout and instead help you relax, feel lighter, and more joyful.
About Carissa Hodgson:
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C has been a Program Manager at Gilda’s Club Madison (an affiliate of the Cancer Support Community) since 2009. In her role at Gilda’s Club she is able to work directly with survivors and co-survivors of all ages, as well as develop psychoeducational programs to support the whole family. Carissa is also an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, most recently teaching a graduate course on Grief, Death, Loss and Life.
Carissa earned her Master of Social Work degree from UW Madison in 2007. She is a Family Therapist and Oncology Social Worker who has worked in areas of child and adolescent development, chronic illness, caregiving, sexuality, trauma, grief and loss, and family systems. Carissa is Co-Chair of the Association of Oncology Social Worker's Youth, Families and Cancer Special Interest Group.
Zoom access is provided by our Technology Sponsor, the Wisconsin Cancer Collaborative.