Grief resources your funeral home can give a family
Print this list for your lobby, give it to a family at the arrangement conference, or send it in a follow-up note. 5 organizations, what each one does, and who it serves. All 5 are free or close to it. This page collects nothing and sells nothing.
The printed sheet carries the 5 organizations and nothing else, written for the family who picks it up.
Where to find help after a death
These organizations support people who are grieving. All are free or close to it, and you can contact any of them yourself.
5 organizations to name
Each one serves a different loss. On the printed sheet a family picks its own; in conversation, name the one that fits.
The Dougy Center
Grieving children, teens, young adults, and their families
Free peer support groups, based in Portland, Oregon. Its site carries free written resources and a worldwide directory of similar programs, so a family outside Oregon can find one nearby.
www.dougy.orgThe Compassionate Friends
Families after the death of a child, at any age
Peer support for bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings, run through local chapters in all 50 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. Its chapter locator takes a state and a zip code.
www.compassionatefriends.orgThe MISS Foundation
Families after the death of a child or another traumatic loss
Counseling, in-person and virtual support groups, and grief retreats, delivered by a provider network trained in one shared method.
www.missfoundation.org988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Anyone in crisis, and anyone who lost someone to suicide
Call or text 988 from anywhere in the US, any hour of any day. Conversations are free and confidential. The site carries a section written for people surviving a suicide loss.
Put 988 on every grief resource your home prints. Grief and crisis overlap, and a list without a crisis line asks a family to go find one.
988lifeline.orgYour local hospice bereavement program
The families a hospice served, and often the wider community
Medicare requires every certified hospice to make bereavement services available to a patient’s family for up to a year after the death. Many hospices also open their grief groups to anyone in the community.
Ask the hospices you already work with which of their groups are open, and print the answer beside the other 4. Earning that relationship takes months of showing up, not one phone call.
If hospice cared for your person, its bereavement program supports your family for up to a year at no cost. Ask them what they run.
Where your funeral home puts this list
The lobby. Print it and leave it by the door, so a visitor can take one without having to ask a staff member for it.
The arrangement conference. Put a copy in the folder the family leaves with, alongside the paperwork they will still have in 3 weeks.
The follow-up note. Bereavement guidelines put the first check-in at 3 to 6 weeks after the death, when the visitors have stopped coming. Send the list then rather than in the first week. Why the schedule starts at 3 weeks.
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