Month: November 2023

Hospice of Santa Barbara maintains a wide range of services not just for residents facing terminal and chronic illness, but also to provide support to their families. Many of the programs at the Hospice serve the needs of children facing the impending or recent passing of a loved one. About 20 percent of children face the death of a loved one before turning 18, with one in 20 children suffering the loss of one or both of their parents before they reach adulthood. Hospice of Santa Barbara works to deliver free support to individuals in these situations, through numerous programs. Kenny Slaught notes that the organization helps individuals cope with grief and avoid or mitigate depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Kenny Slaught endorses the initiatives of Hospice of Santa Barbara, as they build an active support network at local school campuses of all levels, from elementary school to college. Volunteers visit campuses and build weekly support groups for students suffering traumatic or complex scenarios and requiring a safe space with which to discuss their thoughts and feelings. On-campus groups aim to create open atmospheres that encourage openness and boost critical coping skills. Effective coping skills help adolescents avoid drugs, alcohol, and other forms of self-medication. In addition to direct interaction with students, the hospice volunteers offer training for faculty and staff members about how to communicate with students who are dealing with trauma and how to handle their questions about death, most notably violent deaths and suicide. Each of the 65 schools in the Hospice of Santa Barbara network can call on the services throughout the year to respond to a traumatic situation quickly and successfully.

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California-based real estate investor, Kenny Slaught is committed to making long-term contributions to the communities where his business operates. To further his corporate social responsibility mission, he stands as a long-time advocate for the Hospice of Santa Barbara’s ‘The Youth Bereavement Outreach Program’. Slaught, in efforts to boost public awareness of importance of children’s emotional wellbeing, recently promoted the program via his blog at KennySlaught.com.

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“When children lose a loved one, it can feel like their lives will never be the same again. Their grief may seem insurmountable,” states Kenny Slaught. To combat this impression, the I Have a Friend mentor program pairs children and adolescents in this situation with a trained adult volunteer who experienced a similar loss at a young age. This volunteer serves as a companion throughout the grief process and provides a truly sympathetic point of view. The relationship that is built through this program often becomes indispensable as the child continues to face hurdles for several years.

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Research has documented the serious impact that unaddressed grief among children and teenagers can have on their functioning and personality. When these young people have not gained the coping skills they need to process grief, they may fall victim to violence, drugs, or alcohol. I Have a Friend provides a productive outlet for these children and the opportunity to form a real bond with someone who has experienced the same chilling loss. Understanding the program’s significance, Kenny Slaught wrote, “Recognizing that the child’s life will never be the same, the mentor offers a positive example for how to process and deal with the pain of loss. The mentor serves as a symbol that happiness and wholeness can be achieved no matter how the child may feel in the years immediately following a major loss.”

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Renowned property and Founder of Investec Real Estate Companies, Kenny Slaught is a former member of the board of the Santa Barbara Hospice Foundation, and remains a dedicated supporter of Hospice of Santa Barbara. He recently voiced his enthusiastic approval of the organization’s ‘I Have a Friend Program’ by promoting it on his blog, available at KennySlaught.com.

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“The professionals at Hospice of Santa Barbara strive to provide the highest level of service to clients by offering effective, cutting-edge therapies,” Kenny Slaught wrote, praising the organization for their work. “Dealing with grief and loss is extremely difficult, but a new therapy has emerged to help individuals through difficult times.” Those experiencing PTSD undergo overwhelming and painful emotions whenever they remember a past trauma. People dealing with loss and grief often have similar reactions to emotional triggers. EMDR allows these negative emotions to be mitigated through the involvement of dual stimulation—eye movements along with tones or taps. Throughout the therapy, clients recall past traumas in a protected environment while focusing on an external stimulus of the tone or tap. Practitioners are able to help clients find insight about the difficult emotions and make more positive associations with current triggers.

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The project allows for the preservation of the historical character of physical building while also providing for state-of-the-art upgrades, notes Kenny Slaught. In addition, through enhancements like seismic upgrades, both the building and the tens of thousands of pieces of art inside will be better protected. The project also creates 25 percent more gallery space to make the museum an even more important center of the Santa Barbara community. In all, the renovation project is the most comprehensive ever undertaken by the museum.

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