Located in West Michigan, Melanie is a talented and engaging dementia educator and speaker, who has trained and coached hundreds of healthcare and community professionals in Teepa Snow’s Positive Approach to Care® (PAC™). 

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Skilled in utilizing the Adult Education Learning Cycle, she incorporates a variety of modalities to make learning fun and memorable.  Each session focuses on:

• practical, real-world skills

• helping your team understand changes in the brain

• how to respond in ways to strengthen connection and reduce distress. 

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Trainings benefit anyone encountering someone living with dementia: 

• care communities

• healthcare professionals, including emergency services

• attorneys, financial and retirement planners

• pastors and church leaders

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Available for individuals or groups