Parenting with Metastatic Cancer Webinar Series
Join our four-part interactive webinar series for parents with metastatic cancer and the health care professionals who are supporting them. Sign up for the webinar series below.
Webinar Series Schedule
Parenting with Metastatic Cancer
June 9, 2026
12pm – 1pm CT
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C (BSN), Director of Programs and Community Outreach, Bright Spot Network
This webinar will explore unique challenges facing parents living with metastatic disease. It will address the physical realities of chronic side effects, loss of abilities, and parenting with limited energy, alongside the emotional impact of anxiety, depression, guilt, grief, and navigating uncertainty. Social and relational strains, such as caregiver fatigue, stretched support systems, and partner care, will be discussed, along with the spiritual questions of meaning, hope, and resilience that arise in the face of serious illness. We will cover ways parents can harness enduring social support and resources, to focus their energy where it matters most. We will also provide guidance on how to talk with kids and support them through their own big feelings.
Navigating the Practical Issues of Metastatic Cancer: Insurance, Work, & Finances
July 14, 2026
12pm – 1:30pm CT
Triage Cancer Staff Attorney, Susan Yoon, Esq.
This webinar will provide practical tips for navigating the practical and legal issues that parents diagnosed with metastatic cancer and caregivers may face, including understanding options around work and disability insurance, choosing and using health insurance, and managing finances.
Supporting Caregivers Through Metastatic Cancer
August 18, 2026
12pm – 1:30pm CT
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C (BSN), Director of Programs and Community Outreach, Bright Spot Network + Susan Yoon, Esq., Triage Cancer Staff Attorney.
This webinar will address key resources and systems to support people caregiving for parents with metastatic cancer. Financial and legal resources, including FMLA and workplace accommodations, will be discussed, as well as practical ideas of how to engage your support network. Realistic self-care practices that decrease stress and promote overall wellbeing will be explored.
Legacy Work: Advance & Estate Planning and Meaningful End-of-Life Projects for Parents with Metastatic Cancer
September 15, 2026
12pm – 1:30pm CT
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C (BSN), Director of Programs and Community Outreach, Bright Spot Network + Susan Yoon, Esq., Triage Cancer Staff Attorney.
This webinar will cover the practical and personal components of end-of-life planning for parents with metastatic cancer. Legal and financial concerns will be explored through discussions of advanced care and estate planning. This session will also address the more personal aspects of end-of-life planning, including meaningful interventions to support anticipatory grief and legacy project ideas for children.
Sign Up
Register for the webinar series below.
Participants who need accommodations for a disability should email sw@triagecancer.org.
Accreditation Information
These online sessions provide practical tools and strategies for parents with metastatic cancer and health care professionals who are supporting them.
All attendees will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in real-time via a chat box.
Nurses
Triage Cancer is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Social Workers
Triage Cancer, #1689, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Triage Cancer maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/26/2023 to 08/26/2026.
Triage Cancer 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 #SW-0626.
Board Certified Patient Advocates
Triage Cancer (Provider Code BCPA-ACE2006) is approved for CEs by the Patient Advocate Certification Board to satisfy the requirements for Board Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA).
Human Resources Professionals
Triage Cancer is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits(PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
Other Professionals
If you would like a general certificate of completion, you must indicate that when completing the webinar evaluation form. You must attend the entire event.
Evaluation forms are emailed after the webinar and are required for a certificate. You will also receive a post-test, which is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged.
Objectives
Parenting with Metastatic Cancer
Attendees will be able to:
- Recognize the common challenges faced by parents with metastatic cancer.
- Identify 3 or more interventions to decrease stress for a parent with metastatic cancer.
- Utilize simple and affirming language when explaining common concepts about metastatic cancer to children.
- List 3 or more resources that support parents with metastatic cancer.
Navigating the Practical Issues of Metastatic Cancer: Insurance, Work, & Finances
Attendees will be able to:
- Articulate how patients can choose between health insurance plan options and how to use insurance effectively.
- Explain disability insurance options and how they work with other leave laws.
- Identify practical tools and tips for managing medical bills
Supporting Caregivers Through Metastatic Cancer
Attendees will be able to:
- Recognize 3 or more resources to support their family during metastatic cancer.
- Identify 3 or more self-care interventions to decrease caregiver stress.
- Delineate caregivers rights at work to take job protected leave to care for their loved one
Legacy Work: Advance & Estate Planning and Meaningful End-of-Life Projects for Parents with Metastatic Cancer
Attendees will be able to:
- Articulate the various documents that make up an estate plan.
- Describe one’s options to protect their rights to make decisions about medical care (i.e., medical decision making).
- Recognize 3 or more interventions to support anticipatory grief.
- Describe 5 or more meaningful legacy projects for children.
Requirements to Receive Credit (all professionals)
In order to receive CE/contact hour/PDC, attendees must register individually. Participants who “listen in” on another participant’s phone/computer will not be eligible for credit. Participants must attend the entire webinar. No partial credit will be given.
Post-test & Evaluation
Participants will be emailed a link to the online evaluation and post-test one DAY after the completion of the webinar and will have one week to complete both. Participants must receive a passing grade (80%) on the post-test to receive CE/contact hour (only required for nurses and social workers). Participants who do not pass the post-test will be given one opportunity to re-take the test. Instructions and a link to re-take the exam will be emailed to every participant who does not receive a passing grade on the post-test. If participants do not pass the post-test on the second attempt they will not receive credit.
Certificates
The relevant certificates will be emailed to eligible attendees within 4 weeks of the event.
Accreditation Questions or Grievances
Questions about Triage Cancer’s accreditation can be made by phone at424.456.4628 or via email at CE@TriageCancer.org. Complaints may be filed via fax (424) 258-7064, email CE@TriageCancer.org or by mail to 6348N. Milwaukee Ave. #136, Chicago, IL 60646.
While this educational program has received commercial support from the previously listed sponsors the content of the program has no relation to the commercial interest of the organization’s products or services.
System Requirements
Triage Cancer uses the Zoom platform to host its webinars. Please see Zoom's system requirements for more information.
An email will be sent to you after you register with additional login information.
Experts
Parenting with Metastatic Cancer
Carissa Hodgson, Director of Programs and Community Outreach, Bright Spot Network
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C is the Director of Programs and Community Outreach at Bright Spot Network, which provides a program of support to parents with cancer who have young children. She has nearly 20 years of clinical and program experience working with families facing cancer. She has been co-chair of the Youth, Families and Cancer Special Interest Group at the Association of Oncology Social Work since 2015.
Carissa is also a Long Term Lecturer at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches courses on grief and loss, interview skills with individuals, families and groups, and supervises students through field placement. She has a private psychotherapy and consultation practice where she specializes in cancer, chronic illness, caregiving, grief and loss, child and adolescent development, family systems, and the queer community.
Navigating the Practical Issues of Metastatic Cancer: Insurance, Work, & Finances
Susan Yoon, Esq., Triage Cancer Staff Attorney
Supporting Caregivers Through Metastatic Cancer
Carissa Hodgson, Director of Programs and Community Outreach, Bright Spot Network
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C is the Director of Programs and Community Outreach at Bright Spot Network, which provides a program of support to parents with cancer who have young children. She has nearly 20 years of clinical and program experience working with families facing cancer. She has been co-chair of the Youth, Families and Cancer Special Interest Group at the Association of Oncology Social Work since 2015.
Carissa is also a Long Term Lecturer at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches courses on grief and loss, interview skills with individuals, families and groups, and supervises students through field placement. She has a private psychotherapy and consultation practice where she specializes in cancer, chronic illness, caregiving, grief and loss, child and adolescent development, family systems, and the queer community.
Susan Yoon, Esq., Triage Cancer Staff Attorney
Legacy Work: Advance & Estate Planning and Meaningful End-of-Life Projects for Parents with Metastatic Cancer
Carissa Hodgson, Director of Programs and Community Outreach, Bright Spot Network
Carissa Hodgson, LCSW, OSW-C is the Director of Programs and Community Outreach at Bright Spot Network, which provides a program of support to parents with cancer who have young children. She has nearly 20 years of clinical and program experience working with families facing cancer. She has been co-chair of the Youth, Families and Cancer Special Interest Group at the Association of Oncology Social Work since 2015.
Carissa is also a Long Term Lecturer at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches courses on grief and loss, interview skills with individuals, families and groups, and supervises students through field placement. She has a private psychotherapy and consultation practice where she specializes in cancer, chronic illness, caregiving, grief and loss, child and adolescent development, family systems, and the queer community.
Susan Yoon, Esq., Triage Cancer Staff Attorney
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