Community Grief Services...offering support and guidance to those coping with the loss of a loved one
Grief Support Meetings Click
here for the latest schedule.
The
Grief Support meetings are designed to address the needs and questions
of those who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Each session consists
of discussion and support to those attending. Sessions may focus on a specific
aspect of the grieving process.
Personalized
Bereavement Care
Individual support is available to patients, patients' family members
and to anyone in our community who is suffering from the effects of the loss
of a loved one, or other major life-losses. Services of our Bereavement Team
staff members are free of charge and available on request. Call our Maysville
(800-928-4848) or Mt. Orab (800-928-4243) office to inquire.
Garden Therapy
Get your hands dirty! For
some people, making beautiful things grow in the dirt is a wonderful, healing
activity. If you are one of these people, you are invited to spend some time
assisting in our gardens. We call it "garden therapy"! We have both
a butterfly
garden and a
cutting
garden. Lots of blooms are sent to our patients and families.
• for spiritual and emotional comfort;
• for education about specific grief issues and processes; and
• scholarly research on the grief process for counselors and other professionals.
The library resources include books, tapes, CDs and videotapes; and offers both children's and adult materials.
Grief Resource Materials
There are also resource materials available as a gift from Hospice of Hope to our community. These include informational pamphlets about issues of death and dying; and coloring books and other materials for children. We hope these will be of use and shared with others when you are through with them.
Community
Programs
Hospice of Hope offers programs
for community education and remembrance at different seasons of the year and
in various locations in our service area. Two of these programs are
• our
Spring
Memorial Services and
• Fall
Hope
for the Holidays programs.
These programs are open to the community and free of charge. They offer the opportunity
to honor the lives of loved ones lost through death and support for those in
grief.
Youth Programs
Mountain
Pathway... Finding your way after loss of
a loved one.
A special day for families, children,
adolescents and adults who have experienced the loss of a loved one. All
families are invited to attend. Mountain Pathway is held each year in July at
the Limestone Family YMCA in Maysville, KY.
Click
HERE for more information or call
Hospice of Hope in KY 1-800-928-4848 and in OH 1-800-928-4243.
School-Based
Grief Support Groups
Grief
counselors from Hospice of Hope hold school-based grief support groups in area
schools as needed and requested. "Graduates" of the student grief support groups
can be offered additional training to become "Peer Group Grief Counselors" for
other students who lose a family member.
Crisis
Support
Hospice
of Hope staff is available in the event of a community or school crisis to
help people work through their feelings of grief and loss.