Dying to Know Day

with special guest presenter

Dr Kerrie Noonan, Director The Death Literacy Institute

Rest Assured is excited to announce internationally acclaimed death literacy expert Dr Kerrie Noonan will share her experiences as a senior clinical psychologist, social researcher, and consultant, during our Dying to Know Day webinar.

Kerrie was the co-founder and executive director of The GroundSwell Project (2010-2019), leading national initiatives such as Dying to Know Day, FilmLife Project, and ComComHub.

She is currently the Director of Research at Western NSW Local Health District with Dr Alice Munro.

An Adjunct Associate Professor at the Public Health Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University, she is also an Adjunct Research Fellow at the School of Psychology at Western Sydney University.

Kerrie’s research focuses on death literacy, the development of the death literacy index, and investigating the role of family, friends, neighbours and community at the end of life, caregiving and bereavement.

Your Presenter

Dr Kerrie Noonan

Kerrie has a long-standing interest in social and community capacity building approaches to death, dying and bereavement, palliative care, and how people can build their death literacy.

Holding a Master of Clinical Psychology, a BA (Psychology), Grad. Dip. in Systemic Therapy (Family Therapy) and a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from Griffith University she is also a fellow of the Sydney School for Social Entrepreneurs.

Kerrie was elected Vice President of Public Health Palliative Care International in 2023 and was the co-Chair of the Organising Committee for the 6th PHPCI Conference in 2019.

Rest Assured is a community partnership program between Metropolitan Memorial Parks and Newcastle Compassionate Community (NCC).

It aims to create a safe space for people to talk about end of life matters, grief, and loss.

NCC is part of a global social movement encouraging and engaging communities to think about how care is provided to people who are dying.

This webinar is completely FREE.

Participants are encouraged to contribute to the conversation*.

Registrations are essential.

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