Creating Brave Spaces

RedBird's Brave Spaces offer significant partnerships for integrating family perspectives into improving care, through skills development, systems change, improving care, and grief care for clinicians.

Learn more about the many ways RedBird is engaging with clinicians and forming partnerships.

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Bringing Family Perspectives Forward to Improve Care in Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Settings

Clinician Education

An experienced educator, Dannell skillfully trains clinicians in developing needed skills for providing quality care and maintaining resiliency. From simulation-based trainee education to national conferences, she offers clinicians a rare opportunity to engage with family perspectives while learning.

Research

Engaging in research related to clinician education curriculum and improving care for families; from ideation to implementation, and dissemination to further innovations.

Keynote Speaking

Transparently bringing the collective wisdom of lived experiences from many families with courage and hope, Dannell engages audiences with charisma and warmth. Her thought leadership and practical insights shift perspectives for meaningful change.

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Supporting Clinicians Navigating Grief & Loss

Care for Teams

Clinicians quietly carry dual grief, professionally and personally. RedBird's Attend Guided Experience offers a rare opportunity for clinician teams to apply and practice a framework for navigating grief.

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Clinician Grief Journals

After a patient dies, how do you honor the person, your care-relationship, and navigate your own grief? RedBird's Clinician Remembrance Journals are designed to help you do all three.

Learn how to build a sustainable remembrance rhythms.

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Compassion Cards

General sympathy cards easily fall short when you have been closely involved in providing care to a patient. RedBird's Compassion Cards speak the words families long to hear. Adult and pediatric cards are now available for pre-order

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Keynote Speaker

"Dannell is one of the strongest speakers I have heard. She has a gift for putting words together in a way that helps us understand."

Meet Dannell Shu

RedBird, Founder

My son Levi was born with severe HIE and medical complexities. Thanks to the support of palliative care I led our in-home ICU to care for him until his death at seven. Through RedBird I invest in improving care for families and supporting clinician longevity.

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Sample of Current Projects

Education

Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care Annual Conference
Intervener Grief Workshop
All Things Grief Annual Conference

Research

University of Minnesota, Department of Pediatrics, End-of-Life Care Skills Workshops; Bereaved Parent Faculty
CHOP Experience Research Family Partner
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Pediatric Research Collaborator

Leadership

National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care, Pediatric Division; Family Advocate
National Concurrent Care Convening
Minnesota Palliative Care Advisory Council; Family Advocate
Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition of Minnesota

Keynote

McGill Palliative Care Congress
Social Workers Hospice and Palliative Care Network
Pediatric Chaplains Network

Grief Care

Pediatric Palliative Care clinicians + teams
Anticipatory Grief Group for Parents
Bereaved Parents
Interveners