Support Groups
A Lifeline For Widowed Parents
We began our first support group for widowed parents in 2010, and have been running them ever since. The opportunity to connect with - and support - other parents has been instrumental in their healing and moving forward with their lives.
Listen to mothers and fathers describe what being in a support group has meant to them:
Find a Group Near You
Our hope is that, one day, support groups will be available to widowed parents everywhere.
For now, here are the ones available in the United States:
*ONLINE SUPPORT GROUP*
Hummingbird Centre for Hope
Ontario, Canada
(519) 500-8535
Contact: Marny Williams Balodis
marny@hummingbirdcentreforhope.com
Learn more: www.hummingbirdcentreforhope.com/programming/legacy-academy/
NORTH CAROLINA
The Widowed Parent Program
Chapel Hill
(984) 974-8113
Contact: Justin Yopp (for fathers group)
Contact: Diane Bensley (for mothers group)
justin_yopp@med.unc.edu
diane.bensley@unchealth.unc.edu
ARIZONA
Hospice of the Valley
Phoenix
(480) 951-8985
Contact: Lisa Schmitt
lschmitt@thenewsongcenter.org
CALIFORNIA
Kara
Palo Alto
(650) 245-9355
Contact: James Santucci
jims@kara-grief.org
ILLINOIS
Willow House
Bannockburn
(847) 236-9300
Contact: Samantha Acosta, LSCW
SamanthaAcosta@willowhouse.org
INDIANA
Brooke's Place
Indianapolis
Contact: Lauren Griffith
(317) 705-9650
lauren@brookesplace.org
IOWA
Lutheran Church Hope
Des Moines
Contact: Dennis Murphy
(402) 290-8170
ddmurph11@gmail.com
** group for fathers only
MICHIGAN
Ele's Place
Lansing
(517) 482-1315
Contact: Kelly Koerner
Kkoerner@elesplace.org
MINNESOTA
Gilda's Club Twin Cities
Minnetonka
(612) 227-2147
Contact: Ali DeCamillis
allison@decamillis@gildasclubtwincities
Learn more at: www.gildasclubtwincities.org/find-support/get-started/
SOUTH CAROLINA
Spartanburg Regional
Spartanburg
(864) 612-0376
Contact: Beth Cutshall, LCSW
ecutshall@srhs.com
https://www.gildasclubtwincities.org/find-support/get-started/