Teepa Snow, one of the world’s leading advocates and educators for individuals living with dementia, will visit Whitewater on Wednesday, June 15, 2022.

Snow is an Occupational Therapist with over 40 years of clinical and academic experience. Her user-friendly approaches provide guidance and leadership to nationally promote best care practices.

Rainbow Hospice Care, Fairhaven Senior Services, Fort HealthCare, and the UW-Whitewater School of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education, have teamed up to present A Day With Teepa Snow. Snow will speak at Young Auditorium on the UW-Whitewater campus, and the event is free and open to the public. Registration is required and will be accepted online until noon on Friday, June 10, 2022. CEUs are also available for a $20 fee.

Snow will present the topic of A Positive Approach to Dementia Care in the morning session, which runs from 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Snow will highlight Coping with Challenging Situations in Dementia Care in her afternoon talk from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. Registrants can sign up for one or both sessions. A boxed lunch will also be provided at no additional cost for only afternoon and full-day attendees. Doors will open at 8 a.m.

Thanks to the generosity of UW-Whitewater Parking Services, free parking will be available the day of the event in campus lots 1and 2. Limited respite care spots are also available at Starin Park in Whitewater and the respite site for the day is being sponsored by Capri Communities, Seniors in the Park, and the Whitewater Dementia Friendly Community Initiative. Contact (262) 473-0535 before June 1.

To register for one or both sessions of A Day with Teepa Snow visit https://www.uww.edu/ce/teepa.