Professional Resources
Resources & Support
As the Canadian distributor, FSAC provides these Professional Resources for nothing more than the cost for printing and mailing. Use these resources to build meaningful relationships in your communities.
Youth-Focused Community Resource
Youth & Funerals: Understanding the Important Role Funerals and Memorialization Play in the Lives of Youth
Through the generous support of our donors, the Funeral Service Foundation created a booklet, and ebook in collaboration with NFDA, funeral service professionals and bereavement experts committed to helping families and caregivers understand the important role funerals and memorization play in the lives of youth.
Conveying the important role funerals and memorialization play in the lives of both adults and children, and dispelling common myths that prevent children from attending or participating in funerals can be challenging.
We offer these resources to help you create meaningful and healing memorialization experiences for the families and communities you serve.
These tools help debunk the common myths that prevent youth from attending or participating in funerals, offer age-appropriate language and advice on discussing death and funerals with youth, and give suggestions for youth preparedness, empowerment and involvement in memorialization.
Self-Care Handbook
Caring for Families & Caring for Yourself: Self Care Resources for Death Care Professionals
The tips, guidance, quizzes and journaling prompts in this free handbook help death care professionals manage stress, learn the importance of self-care and uncover a deep sense of self-understanding.
Death care professionals are first responders – sometimes called “last responders” in a high-touch, high-stress environment. Effectively managing that stress is part and parcel of the vocation and essential to a death care professional’s well-being. Finding ways to manage stress is key to maintaining healthy relationships with loved ones, and boosts a funeral director’s capacity to compassionately serve families.
Use this handbook to explore effective self-care techniques, specially designed to help death care professionals maintain a healthy work/life balance and prevent burnout.
The handbook features tips, guidance, quizzes and journaling prompts that use proven methods to help death care professionals:
- Evaluate experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
- Manage stress.
- Navigate a path to self-care.
- Uncover a deeper sense of self-understanding.
Use this poster in your work room for a gentle, helpful, and constant reminder of the self-care manifesto featured in the handbook. Read through each point to stay connected with your thoughts, feelings, and self-care goals to maintain a healthy work/life balance and to be the best funeral service professional you can be.
A special thank you to author Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD for his commitment to serving those who are caring for others at their time of greatest need.