September 30, 2024

Join us and Dr. Tashel Bordere to discuss suffocated grief and examine culturally resonant, grief and trauma-informed practices to support bereaved homicide survivors.

Dr. Tashel Bordere will address systemic issues for youth, families, and communities coping with pervasive rates of gun violence, bereavement, and suffocated grief following deaths by gun violence.

We will examine culturally resonant, grief and trauma-informed practices that promote effective ways for individuals, communities, and organizations to support bereaved youth and family survivors of homicide.

SEATING IS LIMITED. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

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When: Thursday, November 21, 2024, from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Registration/check-in starts at 3:30 p.m.

Where: Toledo Lucas County Public Library - Main Branch, 325 Michigan Avenue, Toledo, OH 43604


Click here to download the event flyer, and please feel free to invite your colleagues and friends! 

About The Speaker:
Tashel C. Bordere, PhD, CT is an internationally known scholar, author, and speaker, adjunct and researcher at the Center for Family Policy and Research, Human Development and Family Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Bordere’s research is contextually based focusing on cultural trauma, stigmatized loss (homicide loss, assaultive violence–sexual assault), suffocated grief (a term she coined), and Black youth and family bereavement and mourning rituals.
Dr. Bordere has led numerous workshops, keynotes, and published research relating to social and educational inequities and culturally relevant practices, including her co-edited book, Handbook of Social Justice in Loss and Grief (Routledge). Dr. Bordere has been featured in multiple media outlets including USA Today, New York Times, Legacy.Com, Psychology Today, Houston Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, and NPR (WPSU: Take Note). She is a proud New Orleans native and Mom.