Journeys Holistic Bereavement Support is a bereavement support program which offers traditional and innovative services based on a holistic model of healing, is designed using the most current research about grief and the body’s response to loss and trauma, including a developmental framework for kid activities! Journey's offers a low cost membership model that encourages reliability and consistency to build community vital to healing. Staffed with highly committed and skilled practitioners who bring grief sensitivity in all they do! For more information about Journey's please contact Lori Churchill @ 978-928-1164
Community Birth/Loss Support Group is a Support Group for Parents who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth
or the death of a Newborn. Society often does not understand the depth of feelings parents experience after infant loss. The Community Birth/Loss Support Group is a collaborative of UMass Memorial
Health Care, Heywood Hospital and Milford Regional Medical Center; sharing resources and providing support, understanding and acceptance of bereaved families. Heywood Hospital, Gardner,
MA. Contact Jill Cormier, LCSW 978-630-6458
978-630-6458. For more information visit: http://www.heywood.org/education-support/support.html#communitybirthlosssupport
The Compassionate Friends of North Central Massachusetts – We are a non-profit, self-help organization offering friendship, understanding and hope for the future to bereaved parents and siblings. Our primary purpose is to assist the bereaved in the positive resolution of the grief experienced upon the death of a child. We support your efforts to achieve physical and emotional well-being and provide bereavement information and education. Additionally we help the community, family, friends, employers, co-workers and professionals to be supportive of your situation.
Support Group for those who have lost children of any age: Meetings are held 7-9pm on the first Thursday
of the month. Meeting location: Redemption Rock Church, 3 Hager Park Road, Westminster. TCF co-leaders, Mark Bergeron or Dennis Gravel @
978-668-5297
978-668-5297.
For more information about services visit their website: http://tcfncm.org/
The Gardner VNA Bereavement Support Group is open to anyone who has experienced a loss. The meeting is facilitated by Bonnie Frank Hume, LICSW. Two locations: Gardner GVNA Healthcare, 2nd Monday of the Month from 6:30-8:00 PM or 4th Monday of the Month from 2:00-3:30 PM. North Quabbin Adult Day Health Center, 1st Wednesday of the Month from 6:30-8:00 PM or 3rd Wednesday of the Month from 2:00-3:30 PM. For more information, visit their website: http://www.gvnahealthcare.org/Support-Groups.html
The Suicide Survivor Support Group at Heywood Hospital is intended for individuals who lost someone they know to suicide. Meetings are held the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month at 6:30 PM. All are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Lynn Kvingeldal at 978-632-3240 or email lchaves@comcast.net. Individuals with questions can also contact the Mental Health Unit at 978-630-6377.
Answers to A Child's Questions about Death - The Time of Death can be mystifying and troubling to a young person. At Boucher Funeral Home in Gardner, their staff help children understand the processes of dying, death and bereavement and how it affects their lives. Our children's program offers interactive discussions of what happens when a person dies, what the children will see, and examination of the caskets help children deal with the situation in an honest and caring setting before seeing their grandparent or other loved one. We encourage children to be part of the funeral by putting pictures, letters or other meaningful items in the casket. Young people may also act as honorary pallbearers during the service. Visit their website for Children’s Resources about death: http://www.boucherfuneral.com/Childrens_Corner_65989.html
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