Hearing stories about how you use ClayLinks® Kits in your workplace is endlessly interesting and educational to us. We learn so much each time you share. Your stories allow us to continually adapt and update the information we offer all our customers. This teaches best practices and allows us to share what works between all of you at your different hospitals across the country. Your stories also feed well into our efforts to support your use of ClayLinks Kits. They help make sure you are getting the most out of using CaringWisdom® products for memory-making with your patients. Today’s blog… Continue Reading
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A Healing Ceremony for Bereaved Families: Decorating & Baking Prints At-Home
You may not be able to decorate or bake ClayLinks® prints onsite. That’s okay! It is more important that the print go home as soon after a loss as possible, the same day if it can. Don’t let baking stand in the way of sending families home with their loved ones’ prints. The experience of decorating and baking ClayLinks prints at home can become a healing ceremony for families. When you present it this way, families see that you are providing the opportunity to honor their loved one in their own way. The benefits to you of making ClayLinks prints… Continue Reading
Supporting Mental Health for Your Team
As you know, supporting the mental health of your team is important. We are closing out May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month, by bringing you some helpful ideas about how ClayLinks Kits can be a powerful tool for supporting your team’s mental and emotional health when used as part of your bereavement support protocol. Did you know, your team may benefit from the process of making ClayLinks prints while also supporting your patients, clients and their families? Consider the following thoughts from some of our customers: Betsy Strafach, Executive Director at 3Hopeful Hearts Bereavement Support says: “…when a baby… Continue Reading
Clay for Hand Impressions: Choose Oven-Bake
Use the highest-quality, longest-lasting clay for hand impressions keepsakes by choosing ClayLinks® Kits. Experienced bereavement professionals know that personal mementos, called linking objects, help grieving families feel deeply connected to their loved ones who have died. ClayLinks Memory-Making Kits provide an easy-to-use, affordable clay for hand impressions or foot impressions. When you make ClayLinks prints immediately following a death, families don’t return home empty handed. Instead, they leave with a treasured keepsake. Forever connecting them to their loved one and to the compassionate care they received from you. Kneading + Baking = Forever! Our proprietary formula ClayLinks Clay is a… Continue Reading
High-Quality ClayLinks® Prints as an Act of Service
When you make a ClayLinks print for a family, you capture the love they shared with their loved one and transform it into something permanent and tangible. You give them something they can hold on to forever. This is an act of service, worthy of your time and the use of quality materials. ClayLinks Clay is an archival-quality material you can be sure is up to the task of making durable hand and footprints of any size. Once baked, a ClayLinks print is a permanent keepsake. Comparatively, most air-dry clays will eventually break down, curl, crack, or completely disintegrate. Plaster… Continue Reading
