CE WEBINAR

Before You Go, What You Need to Know: Funeral Planning Demystified

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

4:00 pm ET, 3:00 pm CT, 2:00 pm MT, 1:00 pm PT

Registration deadline: October 21, 2020

Sponsored by

Joshua Slocum, Executive Director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance will join us for an engaging presentation on how Aging Life Care Professionals® can better serve their clients by preparing and protecting them about funeral planning options including steps they can take to ensure that final arrangements meet the family/client’s emotional and financial needs.

Webinar Goal:

To provide Aging Life Care Professionals the basic tools they need to help clients comparison shop for price and service in order to avoid confusion and burdensome funeral costs.

Learning Objectives:

• To determine the typical range of costs associated with funerals, cremations, and burials.
• To understand the legal rights funeral consumers enjoy, and how clients can use them to protect themselves from overspending or manipulative funeral sales practices.
• To summarize and pass on to clients, simple tips for comparison-shopping on funeral services and prices, even if they have done no funeral planning before the death.

About the Presenter

Joshua Slocum has served as executive director of Funeral Consumers Alliance since 2003. Prior to joining FCA, he worked as a crime and government reporter for The Lynchburg News and Advance. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.  Slocum is a nationally known expert on the issues facing grieving families when they arrange funerals. He has appeared on the CBS Morning News, National Public Radio, 60 Minutes, and is frequently quoted in national and local media on matters relating to consumers of funeral services.  In 2011, Slocum co-wrote the consumer manual Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death (2011:  Upper Access Publishers). The book takes the reader through all the possible facets of arranging funerals, burials, and cremations, relating real-life stories from consumers who faced problems and advising readers on how to avoid them. The book features a chapter on the funeral and burial-related laws in each of the US states, putting legalese into plain English for the lay reader and consumer.

Continuing Education Credit Hours

ALCA has been approved for 1 CE contact hour from CBRN, NACCM, and NYSED, and has applied for approval from NASW and CCMC. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 15884, for 1 Contact Hour. Aging Life Care Association, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0166. This event has been approved for 1.0 contact hour. Attendee must attend entire webinar to receive any CE certificates. Attendees requesting a CE Certificate for Social Work (NASW or NYSED) must successfully submit and pass a post-test prior to receiving CE certificate.

Cancellation Policy

The registration fee for webinars is non-refundable. Registrants who are not able to attend the webinar will receive audio & video files following the event. For clinical webinars, CE contact hours will not be available to those who are not able to attend the entire live event.

In the unfortunate event that a webinar needs to be cancelled or rescheduled ALCA will notify the registrant by email and provide information on the new date or alternative arrangements. If the registrant is not able to attend the new date ALCA will refund the registration fee or place a credit towards a future event. 

Fees:    Free for Advanced Professional Members

            $29.00 for Members and Corporate Partners / $99 for Nonmembers