Loss of Parent
The majority of us will experience the loss of a parent at some point in our lives. It is a “rite of passage” that follows the normal course of a lifespan. That doesn’t make it easy or “lighter” on the scale of grief. In fact, losing a parent or caregiver can tear us at the core, because in some cases, that is our original source of life and love.
Some of us never get to meet our parents. Others have a parent in their lives for a short time. Some get to see their parents live to a ripe old age. Whatever the situation, it can come with it’s own host of joy and pain.
SUPPORT GROUPS
UC Davis
916-734-1139
Program for Young Adults (ages 17-24)
Kaiser
916-486-5300
Bereavement Support Group
Ongoing
Grief Share Support Group
Capital City Baptist: Jeanne Hodge
COUNSELING:
Grief Recovery Method
916-764-3062
Host: Heather Brooks
Creekside Counseling Associates of Elk Grove
916-685-5258
A Place Within Counseling – Folsom
Local School Site:
Ask your local school site if the school-based mental health team is able to provide short-term individual or group counseling support for grief/loss.
Drop in Groups:
Child’s Bereavement Art Therapy (ages 4-16)
916-454-6555
For loss within the past year: 3-6 month waiting period
Bereavement Outreach Meetings (open to the public)
Education 1st and 3rd weeks of the month
Sharing groups 2nd, 4th, and 5th weeks of the month
7:30-9pm
Sutter Grief Support
916-388-6215 or 916-388-6255
Sutter Center for Psychiatry
7700 Folsom Blvd. Sac
Activities
Camp Hope
The Breathing Space
Guided Meditation – Jill Weston
916-201-3335
Full of Hope Yoga
Certified Trauma Recovery with Karen Penfold.
https://fullofhope.newzenler.com/
Guide To Coping with Grief Article
https://www.avasflowers.net/a-guide-to-grief-stages-of-grief-coping-tips-sympathy-flowers-and
*Family Lives On makes it possible for children and teens, ages 3-18, whose mother or father has died, to continue traditions, or family activities, that they used to celebrate with their deceased parent, EVERY year until they turn 18. Parents embrace the Tradition Program because its family based and truly child focused. Children and teens embrace it because they get to select which tradition they want to continue (and are excited about doing so!). The average child chooses to remain in our program for 7.2 years.
Services are provided at no cost to the family and available anywhere in the United States.
