A Grief Support Community for Children, Teens, and Families.
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Support Bridges of Hope in providing an ongoing grief support community for children, teens, and families.
Our Mission
Bridges provide a safe group environment to support and empower children, teens & their families grieving a death.
Our Approach
We provide trauma-informed, kid-focused services to grieving children and their families where they can connect with peers who “get it.”
Through activities like music, art, movement, and mindfulness, kids learn coping skills to live with their grief.
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Our Impact
Speaking Grief Community Awareness Event
Bridges will host a public screening of Speaking Grief, a Public Media Documentary, to increase grief awareness in our community and connect people to service agencies. This event will take place on Friday, May 14th, 2021 at 1pm in the afternoon. This specifically will appeal to members of the community who’ve encountered loss or individuals who support those impacted by loss. In addition to these individuals, families served by our grief support programs, volunteers, and board members will be in attendance.
A New Community Ritual – Hope Blossoms
With 32 years of offering a Candlelight Memorial Ceremony in the fall, Bridges of Hope is pleased to begin offering a second community ritual each spring. Hope Blossoms is a unique opportunity to gather as a community & plant in memory of someone who has died. This ritual will provide a safe space to honor someone by emphasizing life though a living memorial, such as a plant, all while blossoming hope for our new beginnings.
New Year – New Mission-New Name-
Last summer, we shared the important strategic decision to shift from being a broad end-of-life advocate to become a grief-focused organization (read the full announcement here.) So, with our new mission in place to focus on the needs of children, teens, & their families grieving a death, we are now pleased to debut our new name: