Bereavement Support and Peer Contact Services
AGAST
(Alliance of Grandparents A Support in Tragedy)
AGAST provides grief support to grandparents of SIDS victims via trained
peer counselors. The Georgia SIDS Project offers grandparent support
through a peer contact network at www.gasids@mindspring.org
Alive and Alone
Alive and Alone provides information and support to parents who become
childless after the death of one or more children.
Bereaved Parents of the USA www.bereavedparentsusa.org
Provides help and support to families who lose children of any age and
work with grief at any stage. Healed parents serve as contacts and support
group facilitators.
Centering
Corporation
Extensive catalogue of grief resources for children and adults including
book descriptions and indexes.
CLIMB
(Center for Loss in Multiple Birth)
Climb provides support for parents who have lost one or more children from a
multiple birth
Compassion
Books, Inc.
1- 800-970-4220
Over 400 resources to help children and adults through grief and bereavement.
Informative e-newsletter.
Compassionate
Friends National Website
The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization
that offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents
and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and there are
no membership dues or fees.
Compassionate
Friends of Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta,
Georgia
The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families in the positive
resolution
of grief following the death of a child and to provide information to help others
be supportive
MISS
Foundation
The MISS Foundation is a non-profit volunteer-based organization dedicated
to the emergency and ongoing support of grieving families who’ve
lost and infant or young child to any cause. The organization works
to promote public
awareness to decrease infant mortality and to educate on grief surrounding
death. They run support groups around the country, advocate for legislation
at the state
level and provide a wide variety of memorials and information exchange
for families.
Mommies
Enduring Neonatal Death (MEND)
Types of Support & Referral: peer support; matching individuals/families;
medical referrals; referrals for non-medical services; referrals to
local chapter or group Range of Services Include: Telephone helpline;
Peer-to-peer counseling;
Speakers
Share Atlanta
Share Atlanta is a non-profit organization dealing with pregnancy and newborn
loss. It is organized by volunteers who are healed bereaved parents. Share Atlanta
runs group support meetings dealing with subsequent pregnancy as well as grief.
They offer memorials, grief information, outreach and inservice programs. Their
focus in on loss during pregnancy, stillborns and infants who never leave the
hospital though they welcome SIDS parents.
Suddent
Infant Death Syndrome Alliance, Inc.
The National SIDS Alliance, Inc.) provides bereavement support to families who
experience an infant death, risk reduction education to professionals and support
for medical research designed to clarify and eventually eliminate SIDS. The Alliance
staffs a 24-hour bereavement hotline
The
Front Porch of Atlanta
The Front Porch of Atlanta provides a safe and supportive environment that promotes
healing for children who have experienced the death of a loved one. Grief support
groups are offered to children and their families at no charge.
RAINBOWS
Non-profit international organization offering grief support services and training
for establishing grief support groups in schools, churches, synagogues, hospitals
or social service agencies. Programs available for children, adolescents, and
adults. Over 200 program sites in Georgia.
