Journey Program (Grief and Loss)
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 and volunteers
- Sibling grief support through workshops and counseling
- Individual, couple 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
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.