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grief support

Bon Secours Hospice provides Bereavement Services to support families after the death of a loved one. These programs are free of charge and open to Bon Secours Hospice families, plus anyone in the community (as space allows).

Bon Secours Hospice Bereavement Services Spring 2024

Due to low registration numbers, we have decided to cancel the Service of Remembrance planned for April 28th.  We plan to have one at the end of the year.   We are still available for counseling and support.  Should you have any questions or are interested in our services, please call:  804-433-4710 or email us at: Bereavement@bshsi.org

Online grief program info is available here.

Grief programs include:

  • Monthly grief workshops (online)
  • Support groups (in-person & online)
  • Service of Remembrance (in-person & online)
  • Counseling (phone and video; only available to Bon Secours Hospice families)
  • Referrals to other resources

To register for programs or for additional information, contact bereavement@bshsi.org or 804-433-4710.

additional resources

Books for adults:

  • What’s Your Grief? Lists to Help You Through Any Loss by Eleanor Haley & Litsa Williams
  • Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman
  • Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart by Alan Wolfelt

Web sites and accounts to follow on social media:

  • WhatsYourGrief.com – podcast, individual grief classes, creative coping ideas, grief education
  • SpeakingGrief.org – documentary featuring grievers and professionals validating common reactions

For children & teens:

Other specialty resources:

  • Christian: GriefShare.org – local support groups and daily emails from a Christian perspective
  • Loss of a Child or Sibling: CompassionateFriends.org – local monthly meetings and national online groups regardless of person’s age at time of death

family testimonial

“My mother was in the later stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and my father had promised her nearly a decade before that he would care for her at home for as long as he could. He’d done just that, except during a brief time when she was hospitalized and then moved to a nursing facility. Hospice services made it possible for him to bring her back home and provided the support he needed.

Nurses Sherri, Pat and Lynn were consistently efficient and reassuring and ever-respectful of my parents, and social worker Julie Rayford was instrumental in scheduling the nursing assistants that became a necessity. Sherri was in the house when my mother died, and we are so grateful for her presence. I wish I’d made note of everyone’s last name, but during that 48 hours I’m not sure I could have told you my own.

A week later, I know my father takes comfort in a promise kept. My family’s relationship with Bon Secours Hospice was relatively brief, but the impression it left is considerable. My thanks to the Peace Team for your compassion and commitment.”

Pam

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“You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.” – Dame Cicely Saunders, nurse, physician and writer, and founder of hospice movement (1918–2005).