Supporting our community
encouragement and support
This subsidiary program provides additional encouragement and support on a regular basis for youth, mothers, families and grievers of all ages. An identified gap highlighted the need for long-term, post-traumatic, psycho-educational care for mothers, siblings and families who have lost a child or children to gun violence.
Our Mission
Compassionately accompany grievers on their grief journey towards Healing, Empowerment and Resilience.
Objectives:
- To provide a safe, warm, non-judgmental space for mothers to tell their story.
- To help provide skills/resources and enhance their natural abilities.
- To facilitate healing on the psychological, emotional, mental and psycho-social levels.
- To validate each mother’s expressed need and seek ways to expedite solutions
- To stimulate and foster resilience.
- To empower mothers to legacies of personal growth and “Meaning-Making.”
Programs & Services:
- Monthly groups (open to grievers of all ages, gender with any type of loss)
- Healing Circles geared towards “Emotional Intelligence”
- Quarterly “Workshops” highlighting topics of interests
- Annual “Celebration of Life” Markers
- Education Sessions to build resilience
- Buddy System Enhancement (Reaching-Out Initiatives)
- Recognitions: Anniversaries, Birthdays etc. with special rituals
- “After-Care” & Compassionate Supports
- Identification of “Special, Individual Needs” with implemented solutions
- Anticipated Prevention/Intervention
- Assistance with planning/arranging vigils and other memorial events