2025 Death Care Education Summit sponsored by Dignity Memorial® providers

2025 Death Care Education Summit sponsored by Dignity Memorial® providers, Greenoaks Funeral Home and Memorial Park along with Central Funeral Home, Ourso Funeral Homes and Rabenhorst Funeral Homes & Crematory is opening Regististration on February 1, 2025 for a Death Care Education Summit for Social Workers, Nurses, Medical, Non-Profits, University / College Students, Ministry Teams, Pastors, and Chaplains from all faiths and those serving Hospice, Home Health, Hospital, Military, Veteran, and Civil Servants.    To be held on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 * 8:30am - 2pm hosted at Greenoaks Memorial Park & Funeral Home and Life Reception Center on 9595 Florida Blvd. Baton Rouge, LA 70815. Must be 21 or older to attend. First Come First Serve. Registration Limited to the First 200 participants.

Speakers and Auxiliary Presenters do not need to register.

{Those who Registered in 2024, please do not register again.)

Volunteers please register.

• Doors will open at 8:30am for Registration and Hospitality Coffee and Continental Breakfast at the Reception Center. 9am the Summit opens in the Chapel
• There will be 2 morning breakout sessions in 5 Different Rooms with lunch prepared by Catering Cajuns.
• You will have an opportunity for one morning Break to visit the booths of our Auxiliary Support Partners to obtain information beneficial to your congregation / parishioners. 
• A panel discussion with our Auxiliary Support Partners will be during lunch
• We will end at 2pm.

Speakers will focus on current topics, issues, resources and laws surrounding Traumatic Loss, Funerals, Cemeteries, Cremation, Organ Donation, Restorative Art in the Embalming Industry, Hospice, High Profile Funerals, Successions, Wills, and Logistical Process of Arrangements for Funerals and Final Dispositions.

Presenters include but not limited to…

·        EBRP Coroner’s Office - William “Beau” Clark, MD, FACEP, D-ABDMI

·        Whitlow Law Firm - Steve and Sharon Whitlow, Owners

·        Baton Rouge Crisis Center – Traumatic Loss - Patty Rivers, MSW, LCSW Executive Director

·        LA Funeral Directors Association – Shanna Bryant Southeast District Governor – G. Milton Robbins, Treasurer - Ourso Funeral Home-Gonzales -

·        LA Cemetery Board - Jerry W. Sullivan, Director - Delia Taylor, Compliance Investigator

·        LA Dept. of Veteran Affairs - Earnest Buckner, Jr. Cemetery Director

·        LA Veterans National Cemetery Board - Ted Krum Director

·        Restorative Art & Organ Procurement - Steven Lopez, Manager - Regional Dignity Memorial Care Center - LOPA Representative Blake Smith Community Outreach Rep.

·        Louisiana-Mississippi Hospice and Palliative Care Organization - Jamey Boudreaux, MSW. M.Div. Executive Director

·        Panel Discussion – High Profile Funerals -

Funeral Director & Embalmer Rachel Stephens – Greenoaks Memorial Park & Funeral Home and Funeral Director & Embalmer Corey Delmar Rabenhorst Funeral Home & Crematory with a panel of Honor Guard Representatives from EBR Police, EBR Fire, EBRP Sheriff, St. George Fire Dept. LA State Fire Marshal, and LA State Police.

·        Panel Discussion - Logistics At Your Time of Need - Leadership Professionals from Funeral, Cemetery, and Administration from Dignity Memorial Locations

A working Lunch from, our Auxiliary Support Partners will speak of their programs in connection with the Funeral Industry. These include Maddie’s’ Footprints, LA Patriot Guard Riders, Blue Star Mothers, Gold Star Families, LA Women’s Veterans, LA VA Home Mkt. Rep., MADD, LOPA, The Retreat at the Quarters, Monday Night Disciples, InterFaith Federation, Grief Share facilitator at Istrouma Baptist Church, and Behind the Line will conclude the day.

We will conclude the day with a Certificate of Attendance - we do not have a CEU offered for this event.

Participants are asked to bring any grief resources that your church or group provides to the public. We will have a table available for you to share.  

Registration will open February 1, 2025.

For updates, questions, and other topics your would like to be covered, please email Gretchen A. Varnell Community Development Representative at gretchen.varnell@dignitymemorial.com * 225-236-0800 ext. 2006 (Central Funeral Home) or 225-925-5331 (Greenoaks Funeral Home)