Grief and Loss – Journey Program

The Journey Program is for any family who has experienced the death of a child. It provides support to help families cope with death, loss and the grieving process.

Services We Offer

• Support groups for adults that are facilitated by trained and caring staff
• Individual and family counseling
• Meetings with family members to provide help and support with family issues
• Follow-up phone contact with the family
• Suggestions for reading materials and referrals to community resources
• Grief support to schools and communities
• Bereavement education and training for the community

Resources

• Grief: Taking Care of Yourself (PDF)
• Reactions to Grief (PDF)
• Parents and Grieving (PDF)
• Children's Grief: Talking to Your Child About Death (PDF)
• Healing as a Single Parent (PDF)
• Healing as a Couple (PDF)
• Grandparent Grief (PDF)
• The Compassionate Friends 
• Northwest Infant Survival and SIDS Alliance 
• Parent Support of Puget Sound 
• Providence Hospice: Grief Support 
• Centering Corporation and Grief Digest Magazine 

Books

• Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child, Earl A. Grollman
• How Do We Tell the Children?, Dan Schaeffer and Christine Lyons
• When Someone Very Special Dies, Marge Heegaard
• What Does That Mean?, Harold Ivan Smith and Joy Johnson
• Lifetimes, Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen

Related Information

• Support Groups 
• Social Work 
• Family Resource Center 
• Pastoral and Spiritual Care 

I didn't even know what I needed when our child first died, and Journey was a place I could come and talk and others just understood.

Parent