member news

We welcome two new organizational members to the National Alliance for Grieving Children. 

Hospice Caring, Inc. (MD)
Since 1989, Hospice Caring, Inc. has been the only non-medical, volunteer hospice in Montgomery County.  Trained and dedicated volunteers provide practical and emotional support to terminally ill adults and children and their families, and to anyone grieving the death of a loved one.

The seminar, titled "Knit One, Purl Two: Knitting New Identities Together," will be held Friday, October 8, 2010 and will feature author Ann Hood as the keynote speaker. 

The grief seminar is recommended for social workers, educators, counselors, therapists, nurses, clergy and other human service professionals.  Several breakout sessions featuring qualified local therapists and practitioners will be offered. A panel discussion about pertinent issues raised throughout the day will conclude the event.

Congratulations to NAGC member Calm Waters in Oklahoma City (OK) for their recent award of a $50,000 grant from the American Fidelity Foundation.

Nearly 70 organizations from across Oklahoma submitted grant proposals for the competition. The finalists were selected by a panel of judges, and about 450 employees of Fidelity Assurance Co. voted to determine the overall winner.  The grants were given as part of Fidelity Assurance Co.'s 50th anniversary celebration.

The National Alliance for Grieving Children (“NAGC”) continues to grow its membership.  We would like to welcome Camp Good Grief of Staten Island to our membership. 

Camp Good Grief will be opening their first program on September 3, 2010, so we wish them good luck.

"We started Camp Good Grief in hopes that the children who attend can experience less loneliness not by any artificial means, but with the realization that many children like themselves have had the same tragedy befall them," said Irwin Steinman.