Category: Alumni/Alumni-in-waiting

Hospice, Death, & Dying and Advanced Directives Program – Special Student Pricing

February 19th – Akron Bar Association

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Last year, 1.5 MILLION Americans received hospice services from over 4,000 hospice providers. Since 2001, the number of hospice patients has increased by 22 percent and the median length of stay of a hospice patient went from 20.5 days to 22 days. Hospice Care and the related Ethical and Legal Concerns of End-of-Life Care are increasingly becoming an important topic for discussion as more than 78 million Americans begin to turn 60 this decade.

Ethical Issues In Death And Dying

• Ethical Issues at End of Life
• Care and Comfort
• Justice in End-of-Life Care

Legal Issues In Death And Dying

• Decision Making and Communication
• Advance Care Planning
• Patient Self-Determination Act

Advance Directives And Medical Orders For Life Sustaining Treatment

• Advance Directives
• Living Wills
• MOLST – (Proposed)

PRESENTERS:
Doug Cluxton, MA, LPC – Vice President for Education and Development
Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Columbus, Ohio

COST TO PARTICIPANTS:

Social Work, Counseling, Nursing Continuing Education Credits: $75
(other than Legal) or seeking no credit

                (dual certificates – no extra cost)

                ·LSW  ·LPC  ·LMFT  ·CFLE  ·CFCS

Continuing Legal Education
Akron Law Alumni or Akron Bar Association Member $105
                Non-Alumni/Non-Member $130
                Cost includes three hours CLE (including one hour of Ethics)

$25 Current Akron Law student  – contact Michele Novachek at  330.972.8619  or manovac@uakron.edu

We’re Talkin’ Teens:  Legal and Social Issues

Friday, November 13, 2009

10:00 AM – 4:45 PM

 Hilton Akron/Fairlawn   3180 West Market St., Akron, OH 44333 

•  The Adolescent Experience: If We Could See it Through Their Eyes

                        (Susan Painter  MS, RN. University of Illinois, Chicago)

• Trafficking of Minors

                        (Celia Williamson, PhD., University of Toledo)

• GLBTQ Issues Within the Teen Population

                        (Henry Ng, MD, MetroHealth Medical Center)

• Teen Dating Violence and Adolescent Offenders

                        (Tim Boehnlein, Domestic Violence Center, Cleveland)

$80  ~  5.5 CLE

(Nursing and Social Service Contact Hours also offered) 

Complete program details and registration:  www.uakron.edu/law/continuinged/

Electronic Evidence Certificate Program

Nov. 20: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Nov. 21: 8 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

The University of Akron Martin Center

 Participants will gain the legal and technical knowledge and skill sets necessary to advise clients regarding: 

•  Using Electronic Evidence to accurately document and prove maximum dam­ages in civil cases
•  Investigating events without interviewing personnel; finding the facts without  relying upon human recall;    documenting events without incurring significant outside counsel fees
• Allowing Electronic Evidence to lead outside counsel and client to claims and •defenses faster and more    economically than traditional case-building research

Completer program details and registration can be accessed at:  www.uakron.edu/law/continuinged/

 Cost: $450 per person – early bird registrations received by Nov. 9

$500 per person – registrations received after Nov. 9

(cost includes 12 CLE hours including one hour ethics, one hour professionalism and .5 substance abuse, as well as breakfast and lunch for both days)

Two students may attend free, by being selected from a random drawing.  To enter the drawing for free registration, submit your name, e-mail address and telephone number no later than Noon Monday, November 9th to Michele Novachek in the Office of External Programs (manovac@uakron.edu).  All are welcome to pay the registration fee to attend.