Creating Brave Spaces for Families and Clinicians
Creating Brave Spaces for Families and Clinicians
When providing care to children with life-limiting conditions and serious illness, clinicians need to skillfully support families in navigating complexity and grief within compounding uncertainty.
This is difficult to do when clinicians are bearing the weight of their own grief and rarely have educational opportunities to engage with the embodied wisdom of Family Advocates.
RedBird's Brave Spaces offer significant partnerships and resources for integrating family perspectives into improving care through consultation, skills development, systems change, clinician wellness and bereavement care.
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RedBird's Brave Spaces
RedBird's Brave Spaces
- Clinician Education & Wellness
- Research Projects
- Keynote Speaking
- Grief Care for Clinicians
- Compassion Cards for Patients
All Compassion Cards
As family advocates who have experienced the death of a loved one, we know compassion and connectedness is what families need most from their clinicians. So we designed a collection of cards to make it easier for clinicians to offer this person-centered care.
Here's the full collection of our Compassion Cards. Please note, some are designed to be sent after the death of a pediatric (baby to teen) patient, others after the death of an adult patient.
Meet Dannell Shu, RedBird's Founder
Meet Dannell Shu, RedBird's Founder
A respected Family Advocate and Clinician Educator in pediatric palliative care and hospice, Dannell is known as a thought leader, trusted educator, and purposeful community builder. She brings forward the embodied wisdom of family perspectives with charisma and warmth.
Dannell's passion for improving care and supporting clinician longevity comes from being the mother of Levi, a child born with severe HIE and medical complexities. She led an in-home ICU for seven years till his death. In her leadership roles she engages deeply with clinicians and witnesses first hand the challenges impacting their longevity and sustainability.
LEADERSHIP ROLES
~ National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care, Pediatric Division, Family Advocate since 2020
~ National Concurrent Care Convening 2024
~ University of Minnesota, Department of Pediatrics, End-of-Life Skills Workgroup, Bereaved Parent Faculty since 2018
~ Minnesota's Palliative Care Advisory Council, Family Advocate since 2017
~ Minnesota's Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition, Family Advocate since 2014
Grief Support for Clinicians
Grief Support for Clinicians
When you are so busy caring for patients and their families, who is caring for you? RedBird has designed a guided framework for supporting the grief, losses and burdens unique to healthcare providers.
Featured at the Pediatric Chaplains Network annual conference and the McGill International Palliative Care Congress, Attend has been proven to support clinician wellness in meaningful ways.
Become a RedBird Supporter
Become a RedBird Supporter
This year we are creating innovative resources to better support grieving families and clinicians.
It begins with saying goodbye to impersonal sympathy cards and hello to the launch of our Compassion Cards ~ designed specifically for clinicians to send to bereaved families.
We are further supporting clinicians with the launch of The Indelible Ones, a guided journal providing support after the death of a patient.
When you become a RedBird supporter you help us get these resources into the hands of clinicians who need them now.