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Additional Resources |
The Compassionate Friends national office Website is always a valuable resource for the newly bereaved as well as those who want additional support, and those who want to learn more about the organization and events, both national and international. The DVD After a Child Dies is an invaluable resource for bereaved families and professionals seeking to understand the grief process, as well as how The Compassionate Friends can help. Also a valuable chapter tool in community outreach, including Public Broadcasting Service and for chapter discussion. DVD includes full version 23:11. See a 13-min abridged version. Cornerstone of Hope offers a variety of services for the grieving. Cornerstone has special programs for grieving children, teens, and adults, including specific groups for young widows, those who have lost a child, and those affected by violent crimes, suicide, and neonatal loss, to name a few. GROWW -- Grief Recovery Online for all bereaved -- is a place to find partners in pain sharing their experience and strength. They have message boards, resource listings and secure chat rooms hosted by the most loving people on the Internet who are grieving. Middleburg Heights SOS This suicide survivors support group meets from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday every month at Middleburg Heights Community Church, 7165 Big Creek Prkwy. Contact Maureen Nowak, 440.237.1359, m3nowak@yahoo.com.
Joel's Place for Children is an ongoing, twice-monthly, grief support group for children aged 5 -18
who have experienced the death of someone special in their lives.
Meetings are held at Bay Presbyterian Church in Bay Village and at Harbor Light
Hospice in Highland Heights.
Carol A. Ranny
writes
wonderful columns on grief, and on coping with the death of a child, for the
online
Examiner.com -
Cleveland publication.
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