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 for integrating family perspectives into improving care through skills development, systems change, and grief care for clinicians.

• Clinician Education & Wellness
• Research Projects
• Keynote Speaking
• Grief Care for Clinicians
• Remembrance Cards for Patients

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