Engaging in simple, meaningful remembrance activities as a family can be a powerful way to feel connected, express emotions, and honor your loved one together. Whether you choose to plant a memory garden, release wishes into the sky, or share a special story, these acts help families find healing through remembrance. There’s no “right” way to grieve or remember, but doing it together can offer comfort, validation, and a sense of closeness.
In honor of Bereaved Mother’s Day, Annie Gunning, Hope’s Child Life Specialist and Certified Grief Counselor, has created meaningful resources to help families remember and honor their loved ones while navigating the complex emotions of grief. We hope these guides and activities offer comfort, encourage healing, and provide moments of connection as you move through this journey.
Hope offers a range of resources to support, honor, and remember loss.
Annie Gunning, our on-staff Certified Child Life Specialist and Grief Counselor, is trained to provide coping strategies and suggestions for making memories through the bereavement and grief journey for the whole family—parents, siblings, and extended relatives.
We are able to connect you to resources worldwide, tapping into additional individualized and local programs to support your whole family along the way.
The HIE Loss Support Group is a worldwide peer support network designated for parents who have lost a child to HIE to express their feelings, support one another, and share their stories.
Hope’s Peer Support Mentor program matches up families new to HIE loss with experienced, compassionate, trauma-trained peer parent leaders who provide emotional peer support to families through a 1:1 or on-call mentorship experience.
Led by Hope for HIE’s social worker, HIE loss families come together through a video support group that takes place on the second Thursday of every month to find community and discuss their journey with others.
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Jen Schaefer, our on-staff social worker, provides families with a compassionate and caring starting point by connecting them to a range of resources for bereavement, grief, and loss.