Healing Hearts Offers New Grief Support Groups for Young Adults and Children

The Healing Hearts Center for Grief & Loss is starting two new grief support groups that will address the unique experiences of two age groups. One group is for younger adults between the ages of 18 and 26 who have experienced the death of someone close to them. The other is for children ages 6-13 who have lost a grandparent or other close extended family member.

Healing Hearts groups provide a safe, confidential environment where participants engage with others through discussion and activities to help them cope with the impact of loss in their lives.  These time-limited groups will meet at the new Regional Hospice Center for Comfort Care & Healing, located at 30 Milestone Road in Danbury.  To learn more or to find out how to join, please contact Joanna DeNicola, LCSW, Healing Hearts program manager, at 202-702-9152.

The new groups complement the Healing Hearts Center’s existing grief support groups, which include offerings for children ages 4 and older who have lost a parent or sibling, and for adults who have lost a spouse, child or grandchild, among other grief support groups.

“At Healing Hearts, we offer a place for emotional healing, where people no matter their age can meet others who have experienced similar loss in a welcoming environment,” said DeNicola. “As you move along your journey of hope and healing, being with others who are experiencing what you are can provide comfort and support.”

The Healing Hearts Center for Grief and Loss is an award-winning program of Regional Hospice and Home Care that offers free support groups, workshops and educational events to help children, teens and adults cope after the loss of a loved one.

Regional Hospice & Home Care’s team of experienced clinicians have been providing physical, emotional, spiritual and bereavement support to children, adults and their families through our palliative and hospice care program for the past 30 years. The new Center for Comfort Care & Healing is now open! Regional Hospice & Home Care is a non-profit, state-licensed and Medicare-certified home health care and hospice agency. Now, with the opening of our new private-room, specialty hospital for palliative and end-of-life care — the Center for Comfort Care & Healing — we can bring that same hope and compassionate care close to home and under one roof. For more information, visit www.RegionalHospiceCT.org. Follow us on twitter: @real_hope. Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RegionalHospice.