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There are some excellent organizations that have a better understanding of the
confusing issues surrounding you when expecting a loss or after a loss.
Initiating with a good support group can help ease the pain through
companionship and moral support, and can be your key to beginning a whole new
life.
Grief Support Organizations
  Compassionate
Friends
Compassionate Friends is a grief support organization for those who have
experienced a death of a child of any age, from any cause. Groups offer
friendship and understanding to all members of a bereaved family. The
Compassionate Friends has been successful as seasoned grievers reach out to the
newly bereaved, the energy that has been directed inward begins to flow outward
and both are helped to heal.
Compassionate Friends - Volusia/Flagler Chapter
For more information on our local chapter, please contact Karin Powell (386)
673-3249.
Hospice
Hospice care does not end with the death of the patient, but continues through
the family’s bereavement period. The hospice team assists the family to
continue living as fully as possible during this period. Bereavement
counseling, which helps foster a realistic, positive, individualized
perspective toward the reorganization of one’s life, is considered an important
part of Hospice care.
Hospice Care of Volusia/Flagler - (386) 322-4701.
Hospice Care of Memorial Hospitals - (386) 676-6166.
Area Churches
There are area churches that provide grief support services as part of their
mission to serve. If your church has a group that offers grief support and/or
counseling we would be glad to list the name of your church, address, meeting
times, contact person, and phone number." Email:
HaighBlack@aol.com
Begin Again Children’s
Grief Center
Begin Again has bi-monthly meetings for children of all age groups and their
families. They meet at First United Methodist Church of Daytona Beach at 148 N.
Palmetto Ave. For information call (386) 258-5100.
Widows and Widowers
Bereavement Group
A non-denominational group led by Dave Blenco, which meets at Haigh-Black
Funeral Home, 167 Vining Court, Ormond Beach. For more information, call Monica
Evans at (386) 677-0451.
In Time. . . With Love
Women's Services at Halifax Medical Center sponors "In Time... with Love" a
support group for parents who have lost a child through, miscarriage,
stillbirth or death of a newborn or young child. For more information, contact
Vivian Bowden by calling Halifax Medical Center. Phone: 254-4008 ext. 6834
 GROWW
GROWW is an independent haven for the bereaved developed by the bereaved.At
GROWW, you will find your partners in pain sharing their experience and
strength. We have message boards, resource listings and secure chat rooms
hosted by the most loving people on the internet for all who are grieving.
What is GROWW? It's a place where peer groups in an online chatroom environment
teaches that you have "permission to grieve." A place where you learn that the
emotions you can't understand are seen in a "mirror image" of someone
describing exactly what you are going through, and you say to yourself, "that's
ME they are describing". It's a place where you CAN recover from the
overwhelming pain of grief. GROWW's a place of belonging.
GROWW.com
 Center
For Loss & Life Transition
Although there are many resources on the subject of grief, we feel that an
excellent source of information, helpful material and books on grief and grief
support can be found at the Center for Loss & Life Transition. Dr. Alan
Wolfelt is an internationally known author, educator and grief counselor.
 ACCESS
Aircraft Casualty Emotional Support Services
A few weeks following an air crash, organizations that provide crisis
intervention disband and survivors disperse. ACCESS was founded to provide
victims and survivors a place to turn to. The sole focus of ACCESS is to aid
and facilitate the grieving process for those who have been affected by an air
crash. By providing emotional understanding and assistance to friends and
families of crash victims and survivors, ACCESS helps people to cope by
providing support through a network of peers who have traveled a similar
journey. Toll Free: 1-877-227-6435 Email: info@accesshelp.org
 Parents
of Murdered Children
Survivors of homocide victims who call National POMC Headquarters receive
crisis intervention, compassion and comfort and can be referred to the Chapter
or Contact Person closests to them. Please contact the National POMC
Headquarters for more information Toll Free: 1-888-818-POMC Email:
mailto:NatlPOMC@aol.com
 TAPS
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc.
TAPS is an organization developed for those who have lost a loved one serving
on active duty in the Armed Forces. The heart of TAPS is a national
military survivor support network offering grief counseling referral, case
worker assistance and crisis information. Toll Free: 1-800-959-TAPS (8277)
Email: Info@TAPS.org
A Helping Hand
 Need
help with a small chore? Need a light bulb up high changed? Not feeling well
and you need an item or two from the store? Need a heavy object moved or
carried out to the trash? Need a fallen tree limb cut and moved to the street?
Making a decision and you would like to bounce an idea off someone? For things
that don't require a lot of time, but you could use a hand, give us a call and
we'll get someone out as soon as possible. We'll be there to help.
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