APPROVED CORRESPONDENCE/HOME STUDY PROGRAMS

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 8, 2008

The following programs are all of the correspondence and home study variety, and they have been approved for continuing education credit for Kansas licensed embalmers and funeral directors. The maximum Kansas credit allowed for any single correspondence or home study program is three (3) hours. Licensees cannot accumulate more than six (6) hours of credit for programs of this nature during any single two-year licensing renewal period.

For all programs added since last update we have marked ADDED with the corresponding date.

"How We Die"
"The Art of Condolence"
"The Mourning Handbook"

Video #1 - Alan Wolfelt
Video #2 - Karen Nilsen

DVD/Video Tapes/Study Guides:

"Embalming Difficult Cases: Donor Cases"
"FTC Compliance:  Handling the General Price List"
"Restorative Arts: An Artist's Perspective"
"The Art of Facial Reconstruction"
"Your Professional Image"

Home Reading/Home Study Series: 

"Creating the Ultimate Funeral Experiences Through Questioning Strategies"
"Certified Preplanning Consultant" (CPC)
"Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief"
"Father Loss: How Sons Of All Ages Come To Terms"
"Funeral Home Service A-Z"
"Healing a Child's Grieving Heart"
"Healing the Adult Child's Grieving Heart"
"Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart"
"Healing a Teen's Grieving Heart"
"Healing Your Grieving Heart"
"No Time for Good-byes"
"The End is Just the Beginning: Lessons in Grieving for African Americans"
"When All the Friends Have Gone"
"When Men Grieve: Why Men Grieve Differently and How you can Help"
"Winning Ways"

Home Reading/Home Study Series: New Approvals- three (3) hours each: 

 Don’t Take the Last Donut: New Rules of Business Etiquette
Healing Your Holiday Grief: 100 Practical Ideas for Blending Mourning and Celebration During the Holiday Season
Living in the Shadow of the Ghosts of Grief
Traveling through Grief: Learning to Live Again After the Death of a Loved One
The Wilderness of Grief: Finding Your Way

Audiocassettes-CD ROMS:

"Body Preparation and Practices for Different Religions and Cultures: Jewish, Hispanic, Mormon"
"Caregiver's Overload: How to Cope with Accumulated Loss"
"Creating the Ultimate Funeral Experience Through Questioning Strategies"
"Cremation Management: Your Business is at Risk!
"EPA/OSHA Compliance to Protect and Enhance Your Business"
"Having Fun with OSHA"
"Legendary Service at the Ritz-Carlton"
"Managing Diversity"
"Military Funeral Honors and the Important Role of the Funeral Director"
"Myths of Grief"
"Policies and Procedures: The Foundation to Crematory Operations"
"Potential Legal Issues Related to Embalming"
"Preneed Planning: The Importance of Being Prepared"
"Promoting the Value of Ceremony to Today's Consumer"
"Reinvent  Your Cremation Arrangements"
"Strategies for Surviving Until 2020: Tools for Adapting to the New Realities"
"Surviving Cremation: Operate Like It's 2010"
"The Avian Flu Pandemic: Are You Prepared?"
"The Changing Face of Death: How to Deal with the New Demographics"
"Valuable Things Grieving People Need to Hear From You"
"What Weddings Teach Funerals"
"What's Beyond Goodbye? Becoming a Full Service Funeral Home"
"You Need Hospice and Hospice Needs You"

Audiocassettes - CD Roms - New Approvals- three (3) hours each:


Celebrate the Extinction of the Selection Room: Strategies to Meet Today’s Consumer Needs
Cremation Due Diligence: Four Steps to Protect Your Business
Ethics in the Preneed Profession
FTC Compliance Update: 2007
Managing Your Workplace and Environmental Practices in a Contaminated Environment
No Religion Please: Creating Life Celebrations for Non religious Families
The Pandemic Avian Flu: Is Your Funeral Home Prepared?

Online Learning Center courses (web site: www.nfda.org ) 

Three (3) hours each:

"ADA Employment Compliance for Funeral Homes"
"Communicable Diseases: What Every Funeral Home Must Know" 
"Conflict Management for Funeral Directors: An Interpersonal Communication Key to Successful Funeral Practice"
"Controlling Accounts Receivable"
"Embalming the Obese Case"
"Ethics in the Real World: Guidelines for Ethical Decision-making in Funeral Service"
"Guaranteed Funerals: Is Preneed Right for You?"
"Serving Hispanic Families"     
"Time for You Annual Check-Up"
"Understanding Adult Grief: Ways to Help Adults on Their Grief Journeys"
"Understanding a Child's Grief"
"Understanding the Practice of the FTC Funeral Rule"   

One (1) hour course online:

"Professional Ethics in Funeral Service: NFDA's Code of Professional Conduct"

Two (2) Hours each:
   
    "Delegating”
    “Essential Skills for Communicating”       
    “Essential Skills of Leadership”
    “Improving Work Habits”
    “Managing Complaints”
    “Professionalism in the Office”           
    “Providing Performance Feedback”
    “Supporting Change”

"A Review of Basic Embalming Procedures"
"Business Morals and Ethics and The Funeral Director"
"Complying with the Funeral Rule"
"Computer Concepts for the Funeral Home"
"Computers A-Z for the Funeral Home"
"Coping With Stress As A Funeral Director"
"CREMATION: The Concept, The Client, The Caring"
"CREMATION: The Process"
"Dealing with Communicable Diseases & AIDS"
"Employee Recriutment and Retention in Funeral Service" ADDED 8-12-08
"Ethics for Funeral Directors"
"Everyday Ethics in Funeral Service"
"Funeral Profession and Consumer Behavior"
"Funeral Values - The Year 2000 and Beyond"
"Grief 101 for Funeral Directors"
"Hazardous Chemicals/Toxic Substances"
"Helping Skills for 2003"
"How Do We Tell The Children?"
"Intermediate Marketing for Funeral Directors"
"Introduction To Accounting for the Funeral Director"
"Job Burnout in Funeral Service"
"Living with the FTC's Funeral Rule"
"Managing Stress in Funeral Service"
"Marketing 101 for Funeral Directors: Why Everything You Know About Marketing Won't Work For Your Business; And Why It's Not Your Fault" ADDED 8-12-08
"Moral Dilemmas Facing the Funeral Profession"
"Motivation and Coaching For the Successful Funeral Director"
"OSHA for Small Business"
"OSHA: A Practical Guide for Funeral Service Professionals"
"Power Communication for Funeral Professionals"
"Preneed Funeral Planning A Basic Course for the Funeral Prof."
"Pre-Planning For Funeral Home Business Interruptions"
"Professional Communications with Client Families, Part 1"
"Professional Ethics in a Changing Environment"
"Sacred/Sensitive.....and Sane"
"Stress and the Funeral Home Environment"
"The Grieving Process "
"The Vanguard of Competition for the Funeral Profession"
"Understanding & Completing the Certificate of Death"
"Universal  Precautions: A Review for Embalmers & Funeral Directors"

"A Student Dies, A School Mourns..Are You Prepared?"
"Bereavement and the Funeral Director "
"Children and the Funeral Rite "
"Death of an Infant "
"Embalming"
"Embalming Management "
"Ethics In Funeral Service "
"Forensic Pathology for Funeral Directors "
"Funeral Customs Past and Present "
"Funeral Service Management "
"Grief Counseling for the Funeral Director"ADDED 8-26-08
"Management Skills for Funeral Directors "
"OSHA Compliance and FTC Rules"
" Restorative Art & Cosmetology"
"Unexpected, Traumatic Death and the Funeral Director "