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About Wisconsin Grief Education Center

Patrick Vernon Dean, M.Ed., CT, is the founder and director of the Wisconsin Grief Education Center (WGEC) since 1988 where he works with clients on issues related to grief, loss, and healing. He served as an advisory board member at Marquette University, and was an instructor in the Certificate in Grief Counseling program. Dean is also the director of Grief Education Services for 6 area cemeteries. He has served as a Critical Incident Stress Debriefer (CISD) for police, fire, and EMS. Dean spent 14 months as the bereavement coordinator for Milwaukee hospice, and is currently a consultant to the Milwaukee POST(Police Officer Support Team). He holds a certificate in Death Education from the NCDE in Boston, MA and a certificate in trauma counseling from UW-Milwaukee. He also holds national certification from ADEC in Thanatology. Dean is co-author of the Instructors Guide to Death and Dying with DeSpelder and Strickland. Dean collaborated with psychologist Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D., on Healing the Bereaved Child, providing hundreds of portraits of kids to support Dr. Wolfelt's text. Dean was also involved in supporting the workers and management in the aftermath of the tragic explosion at Falk Corporation in Milwaukee, and has spent 2 years working in Crandon, WI following their tragedy of October 2007 when six teens were murdered by an off-duty police officer. Dean˙s latest book is entitled The Tao of Grieving (with Doug Smith) and is available at Amazon.com

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