At BFO-MR, we serve anyone who
is grieving the death of someone in their life who is looking for support. We
create caring compassionate spaces for people to learn about grief, talk about
their experience and the person who died, and to learn from and support each other.
We offer peer support groups for parents grieving the death of an
infant or child, as well as a mixed-loss, open groups for adults grieving a
death, and one specifically for individuals grieving a death by substance use. Volunteers
who are themselves grieving a death facilitate these programs. Our Healing
Little Hearts programs for children 4-12 are facilitated by professionals and
feature a concurrent group for parents/caregivers.
In addition to support groups, we host two memorial events during the
year.
Our biggest area of growth over the last two years has been education
and outreach. We've significantly increased our grief literacy work through
partnerships with our local libraries and the launch of Grief at Work, an
education program for businesses. We have also adapted our model to provide
outreach programming in partnership with community organizations to support the
clients they work with.