Patti Homan is Program Director for the PATHways Center for Grief & Loss at Hospice of Lancaster County, overseeing a wide variety of bereavement services for adults, children and teens. She brings 20 years of her clinical training, practice, and teaching on the issues of death and dying, crisis, trauma, and loss to the many presentations she conducts at national, state and local levels. She draws on her doctoral dissertation work to address professional boundaries, compassion fatigue and the importance of self care in the helping professions. Recognized as a Fellow in Thanatology with the Association for Death, Education and Counseling, she chairs that organization’s Body of Knowledge Committee. She is the Bereavement Professional Section Leader with the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Care Professionals, and volunteers with the American Red Cross and the Lancaster County Critical Incident Stress Management Team to provide debriefings and support when tragedies occur.
