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The RTS (Resolve Through Sharing) Bereavement Services Support Group is for those who have suffered miscarriage, still birth, sudden death syndrome. Clients may request follow-up phone call services and a lending library is available.

Crater Community Hospice offers bereavement support groups throughout the year at different sites throughout the Tri-Cities, Emporia and surrounding counties. The six-week group programs offer support for those coping with loss. The groups are free and open to the public. The groups focus on self-reflection and emotional responses to loss. The goal is to help participants process grieving and begin healing.

JSSA offers a variety of workshops and support groups for individuals struggling with social, emotional, and physical challenges. These programs include life skills workshops, social skills groups, and bereavement support groups.

When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.

Provides a support group for anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one. Support group is open to the community.

The Journey of Hope support group brings together individuals who have lost loved ones throughout the community. This special support group is coordinated by caring hospice professionals. Groups meet at scheduled times in each of our hospice communities. They offer support, guidance and understanding to help you cope with your loss.

Provides a self-help support group for families who have experienced the death of a child. Gather to listen, care, and understand each other in the process of grieving, healing, and growing to recovery. Call the National Office for more information on programs for your local chapter.

Provides a palliative care program for care of patients and families dealing with terminal illness (usually 6 month prognosis). Interdisciplinary holistic approach with focus on home care support. Provides bereavement follow up with the family for a 13 month period. Services Provided include: * Physician provides medical direction of the patient care. * Registered nurses make regularly scheduled home visits to assess the patient condition, provide pain and symptom management, answer questions, and teach patient and families how to manage and provide care. * Hospice helpline provides a 24 hour a day, 7 days a week phone access to a registered nurse. Besides regularly scheduled home visits, by calling the helpline you can speak by phone to a nurse who is able to answer questions and assess unexpected situations. * Medications related to the hospice diagnosis and used for pain and symptom management are provided. * Medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, hospital bed are provided as needed. * Home Care Aides provide personal care and light housekeeping for the patient. * Medical social workers assess the psychosocial needs of the patient/family. They provide education and support regarding interpersonal relationships, and are experts in community resources. This allows them to facilitate family communication and recommend resources for financial, legal and caregiving issues. * Chaplain provides spiritual support to patients and families of all faiths. * Support therapies Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy and dietary counseling provide expert services as needed. * Pharmacist provide expertise in pain and symptom management. * Volunteers are a specially trained group of people who are available to provide supportive services to patients, families and hospice staff. * Bereavement services provide grief follow up according to the needs of the families. This includes phone contacts, supportive literature, mailings and an invitation to the annual memorial service. Grief support groups and individual counseling are available through Sentara Grief Support Services. No person will be denied Sentara Hospice services on the basis of race, color, national origin, handicap, age or inability to pay.

The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is a national self-help bereavement organization for families going through the natural grieving process after the death of a child. We welcome all bereaved parents (and guardians), grandparents, and adult siblings regardless of the age of the child who died or the cause of death.

The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is a national self-help bereavement organization for families going through the natural grieving process after the death of a child. We welcome all bereaved parents (and guardians), grandparents, and adult siblings regardless of the age of the child who died or the cause of death.

Support services for bereaved individuals. Support services are free of charge.

Offers support group for children and teens who struggle to cope with grief. Also offers grief education and support for children and teens as they cope with the multitude of changes and emotions they experience after the death of a family member or close friend. The program encourages children and teens to ask questions and talk about the person who has died through a range of innovative activities. Open to families from anywhere in Hampton Roads.

Grief support services for children (ages 3-18) and their families who are grieving a death. Peer support groups are held twice monthly for children, teens, and their families. Also offer support groups in schools. Contact your school's guidance office to join a school group or start a group in your school. Kids' Haven has a non-crisis phone line offering listening support and resources for anyone supporting a child in their grief journey.

Operates ongoing, facilitated support groups for widows/ widowers, suicide bereavement and a general bereavement support group. Call for times and locations.

Support group for children and teens who have experienced a death of a loved one with peers who are age appropriate. Groups meet twice a month for as long as they need where they can play, talk, take part in activities, or just be with someone who know what they are going through and help them begin the process of healing and returning to a sense of peace.

Provide comprehensive, professional grief support for children, adults, families, and communities.

Comfort Zone Camp provides free mentorship, bereavement resources and grief counseling to traumatized and grieving children, ages 7-17, who have suffered the death of a parent or sibling. Services are offered at our free, year-round 3-day weekend camps, located in Central Virginia, Massachusetts, California and New Jersey.

To offer support to anyone in the Danville-Pittsylvania County community who has experienced the loss of a loved one by death. The group is an open group offered at no charge as a community service.

Provides a variety of bereavement programs available to the community, staffed by social workers, chaplains, counselors, and trained volunteers. Any member of the community who has experienced a loss can use the programs. Bereavement Support Groups are offered continually throughout the year for adults, teens and children. Certain times of year support groups in may be held in other counties.

Offers professional counseling and support groups for children, teens, and adults confronting issues related to grief, loss, and/or trauma. Services are non-sectarian.

Compassionate Friends assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.

Support patients, residents, and family members who need support throughout the journey of illness, injury and recovery.