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Program Name

Number

Provider

Credits

 

The Commemoration of a Lifetime:  Guiding the Options for Cremation

029

Batesville

4

 

Telephone Based Learning Program

007

NFDA

2

 

Certified Preplanning Consultant Program

008

NFDA

8

 

Minnesota Mediaca Assistance

 

DR

1

 

VIDEOTAPES

     
 

Avoiding Sexual Harassment Suits

 

NFDA

4

 

Embalming Difficult Cases

 

NFDA

10

 

Enhancing Communication Sills for the Funeral Service Professional

 

NFDA

4

 

Marketing Cremation

 

NFDA

4

 

Your Professional Image

 

NFDA

4

 

Consumer Assurance Program

 

NFDA

4

 

AUDIOTAPES

     
 

Advanced Funeral Planning: Becoming the Resource Leader

 

NFDA

4

 

Are There Twinkies in Heaven? Talking with Children about Death

 

NFDA

4

 

EPA Compliance for Funeral Homes

 

NFDA

4

 

FTC Funeral Rule Overview: Ten Compliance Issues

 

NFDA

4

 

First Aid for Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

 

NFDA

4

 

Fineral Directors: The First Step on the Bereavement Journey

 

NFDA

4

 

Identification through DNA Profiling and DNA Storage

 

NFDA

4

 

The Impact of Current Trends on Independent Funeral Homes

 

NFDA

4

 

Marketing Strategies: Developing the Winning Edge

 

NFDA

4

 

Owning Cremation Equipment: Is Now the Time?

 

NFDA

4

 

So You Want to Get Back In? Buying Your Family Business Back

 

NFDA

4

 

Successful Treatment of Edematous Conditions

 

NFDA

4

 

Strategic Planning: Ensuring the Success of Your Funeral Business

 

NFDA

4

 

Understanding and Relating to Different Personality Styles

 

NFDA

4

 

What's a Grief Management Specialist and does the Funeral Home need one?

 

NFDA

4

 

Bye Bye, I Love You: Children's Explorations of Death

 

NFDA

4

 

Creating Meaningful Ceremonies: Exploring Current and Future Trends

 

NFDA

4

 

FTC Funeral Rule Training

 

NFDA

4

 

Funeral Directors are their Own Worst Enemies

 

NFDA

4

 

Glutaraldehyde: OSHA Regulation & Health Hazards

 

NFDA

4

 

Helping Client Families Understand the Professional Services Fees

 

NFDA

4

 

High Profile Funerals: Inquiring Minds Want to Know

 

NFDA

4

 

How to Dance with Elephants

 

NFDA

4

 

Mausoleum Entombment: Funeral Directors Concerns

 

NFDA

4

 

Men and Grief: The Study that will Change your Mind

 

NFDA

4

 

OSHA Regulations and the EPA: 1999 Update

 

NFDA

4

 

Risk Management and Insurance for Funeral Homes

 

NFDA

4

 

Stress: The Spice of Life or the Kiss of Death

 

NFDA

4

 

Tough Issues, Tender Message: A Model Approach

 

NFDA

4

 

Worker's Compensation: Cost Reduction & Liability

 

NFDA

4

 

HOME READINGS

     
 

Beyond Grief

 

NFDA

10

 

Children and Grief: Big Issues for Little Hearts

 

NFDA

10

 

Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies

 

NFDA

10

 

Death: The Final Stage of Growth

 

NFDA

10

 

Death and Grief: A Guide for Clergy

 

NFDA

10

 

Death Etiquette for the 90's. What to Do? What to Say?

 

NFDA

10

 

Different Losses/Different Issues: What to Expect and How to Help

 

NFDA

10

 

NEW-Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief

 

NFDA

10

 

Grief in the Workplace: 40 Hours Plus Overtime

 

NFDA

10

 

Healing the Bereaved Child

 

NFDA

10

 

Interpersonal Skills Training: Handbook for Funeral Home Staff

 

NFDA

10

 

No Time for Good-byes

 

NFDA

10

 

The Funeral : An Endangered Tradition: Sense of the Final Farewell

 

NFDA

10

 

Using Grief to Grow: A Primer-How You Can Help/How to Get Help

 

NFDA

10

 

NEW- What Will We Do? Preparing a School Community to Cope with Crisis

 

NFDA

10

 

Winning Ways

 

NFDA

10

 

A Student Dies, A School Mourns. . . Are you Prepared?

016

Thanos

2

 

Bereavement and the Funeral Director

017

Thanos

2

 

Children and the Funeral Ritual

018

Thanos

2

 

Death of an Infant

019

Thanos

2

 

Embalming Management

020

Thanos

2

 

Ethics in Funeral Service

021

Thanos

2

 

Forensic Pathology for the Funeral Director

022

Thanos

2

 

Funeral Customs: Past and Present

023

Thanos

2

 

Funeral Service Management

024

Thanos

2

 

Unexpected, Traumatic Death and the Funeral Directors

 

Thanos

2

 

Management Skills for Funeral Directors

 

Thanos

2

Rock Resources Home Study Programs
PO Box 283
Little Falls, MN 56345; Fax: 320-632-8826

  • Incident Reporting Systems 2 credits
  • Eye and Face Protection 2
  • Back and Lifting Safety 2
  • Chemical Safety 2
  • Emergency Action Plan 1
  • Bloodborne Pathogens 2

International Cemetery and Funeral Association offers a set of seven training videotapes designed specifically for cemetery and funeral sales managers.

Topics include:

  • hiring
  • recruiting
  • training
  • and retaining staff

For more information on these tapes call the ICFA at 1-800-645-7700 ext. 216

To connect to NFDA website: www.nfda.org


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