Moral Injury and Veteran-Centric Care
Event Date
10/24/2019
Event Time8:00 am - 2:00 pm;
Location
Samaritan Center
265 S. Route 73
Voorhees, NJ
Imperatives for Caring Professionals and Faith Community Leaders – Samaritan is honored to host this educational opportunity to increase understanding of the unique needs of Veterans, and extend Veteran-centric care throughout the healthcare continuum. Participants will increase their capacity to serve Veterans, and help increase access to needed services and supports. Topics will include but are not limited to: Moral Injury, PTSD, Suicide Prevention, Mental Health and Palliative Care. Keynote Speaker; Chris J. Antal is staff chaplain at the Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, where he leads the moral injury group together with Peter Yeomans, a staff psychologist. He served in the Army Chaplain Corps from 2008-2016 and is a Veteran of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Reverend Antal has ecclesiastical endorsement and final ministerial fellowship from the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, and holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Hartford Seminary in Connecticut.Seating for this FREE conference is limited, so RSVP today to https://SamaritanNJ.eventbrite.com For more information, please contact: Jennifer Adams, Director of Communications • (856) 552-3289 • jadams@SamaritanNJ.org
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