Join us with Kim Zavrotny from Funeral Professionals Peer Support.  FPPS is a non-profit that provides peer-based mental wellness support to bereavement professionals worldwide.  Visit funeralpeersupport.com for more information.  This is a great program providing free monthly peer meetings specific to students, funeral directors, embalmers, cemetery professionals and other death care employees.  Membership includes an extensive EAP program, webinars, 24 access to therapists and much more.  Join us as we discuss how funeral service differs from other professions requiring specialized peer support and how Funeral Professionals Peer Support helps.

Join us as Prof. Shea covers study techniques that will prepare you for your semester and academic career no matter what field you are studying for.  

Join us for a chat with Chelsea Cush, funeral director, embalmer and mortuary educator.  Chelsea is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Michigan and Pennsylvania and teaches for the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, PIMS.  

The NFDA's arranger training is a great opportunity to sharpen your skills at the arrangement conference and in general will make you better at funeral home operation and management.  This eight hour day will be a mixture of learning, interacting, networking and practicing your skills.  Melissa Loose offers a dynamic day of learning and when you leave you will be empowered to bring what you have learned back to the families you serve.  Cape Cod Community College will be hosting this training September 29th 2023 in Bridgewater Massachusetts on the Bridgewater State University Campus where they reside.  To sign up go to NFDA.org/Arrangertraining
 
 

Join us as we cover how a funeral director and embalmer can approach suicide related deaths and tell the deceased story the way the family wants.

Following Governor Maura Healey's announcement of Mass Reconnect we sat down the the President of Cape Cod Community College, Dr. John Cox to discuss this monumental moment that will open doors and break down barriers to education.  If you are 25 or older and ready to pursue your first college degree or maybe you have started but never finished, visit CapeCod.edu/Free for more information on Mass Reconnect.

Emma Waugh, Public Health Program Coordinator for the United South and Eastern Tribes - USET joins us this to discuss how funeral directors can better serve Native Americans, their tribes, death certificate misclassification and funeral directors can do to correct this.  USET also provides training throughout the United States at your location.

Joe Reardon joins Melissa in discussing cremation and how it affects the modern funeral director.  What can we do to serve families better and keep up with the times.  

As the spring semester starts, we thought it would be beneficial to provide another lecture from the Cape Cod Community College Funeral Service Lecture Series.  This time we bring you to test taking and study techniques with Dr. Shea.  Dr. Shea ran a board exam review course for emergency physicians in the 90s.  The physicians realizing that test taking was a skill that far surpassed topic knowledge alone asked that test taking skills be added to the review course.  Most mistakes made on an exam are because the test taker read the question wrong.  Learn how to properly interpret questions with this months episode.  The full lecture with accompanying slides can be found on the Cape Cod Community College YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/gdEJTEVRPBQ 

Shawna Rodabaugh returns to the show this month to discuss quality embalming and the problems the funeral industry faces with embalming, why are we not getting the quality we expect.