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As of 2016 Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) became legal in Manitoba, since this time the number of patient requests for MAiD as an end-of-life option continues to increase. The lack of education on MAiD as an end-of-life option for patients can provoke challenging and often stressful conversations to navigate for both health care professionals and the public sector. Presentation attendees will be educated on the MAiD process, ethical considerations, as well as how a medically assisted death can affect the individual, their identified support system and the patient’s health care team.

Workshop Participants will learn:

• MAiD process and eligibility requirements
• Social work role on the interdisciplinary MAiD team
• MAiD and MCSW standards of practice, code of ethics considerations
• Conscience-based objection and the responsibility of healthcare providers
• The effects of Bill C7 change and upcoming legislation change
• Grief after MAiD

Introduction to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) Medical Assistance in Dying has been legal in Canada since 2016 and the legislation has recently been amended. Have you wondered who is eligible and what the process entails? This presentation will provide a brief history of how MAID came into law; outline eligibility criteria as well as the application and assessment process; and describe what is next for existing legislation. A conversation with a resource person will follow; you are encouraged to send questions ahead of the presentation.  

Grief is a normal and natural response in this time. Grief is a response to loss that affects our physical, emotional, behavioural, social, financial, and spiritual lives. It does not only occur in response to death; any loss can cause us to grieve. So much is being lost in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Grief literacy provides a way forward. Grief literacy calls on all of us to be better acquainted with grief so that we can support ourselves and one another. This webinar addresses what social workers can do in the time of COVID-19 to be more grief literate. With greater grief literacy, we can all support ourselves and one another better, now and in the future.

Webinar Key Objectives:

• Review current theory about grief and loss
• Discuss how grief is occurring in the pandemic
• Define grief literacy
• Consider implications for social work practice

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