PPCC believes in education that supports the concept and practice of children’s hospice and palliative care by providing seminars and workshops responsive to the educational needs of our community of caregivers, both families and professionals.
  

2021 PPC Webinar Series  

PPCC, GIPPCC, CHPCC, Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services, and the CSU Shiley Institute for Palliative Care have collaborated to offer the PPC Webinar Series to raise the visibility of pediatric palliative care and to build clinicians’ competencies and confidence.

Click HERE for a listing of the entire series. Discounts are available for groups and multiple registrations.
CE are available for nurses and social workers. 

PPC Monthly Webinar 

April 20, 2021 – Big Pharma – Little People
with Melissa Hunt, PharmD and Jessica Sturgeon, MT-BC, HPMT
Children with life-limiting conditions have complex, frequently-changing medication regimens. Medication information is complicated to relay and difficult for patients/families to understand. This session will walk through three complicated pediatric cases, focusing on interdisciplinary communication strategies to ensure effective and accurate discussions with patients and families regarding medication plans.
12:00 PST  |  1:00 MST  |  2:00 CST  |  3:00 EST  

PPCC Firefly Chat  

Stressed But Not Stressed out: Practical Tools for Managing Stress   
Click HERE to listen to the latest Firefly Chat using the passcode – 5#r7QLpH. 
Click HERE to view presentation materials.
Click HERE to view Mindfulness/Gratitude Practices.

The PPCC Firefly Chat is a series of interactive virtual discussions that explore issues facing the pediatric palliative care community in PA and beyond.  Click HERE to listen to the previous chat, A Day in the Life of a Caregiver.