At Hope for HIE, we keep our grieving families close to our hearts every day. In recognition of July as Bereaved Parents Month, we want to remind you that you are not alone.
Annie Gunning, Hope’s Child Life Specialist and Certified Grief Counselor, has created a resource for families to help them honor and remember their loved ones while navigating the complex emotions of grief. We hope that this resource fosters healing and connection, providing support as you navigate this journey.
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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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Haley Thomas, our on-staff social worker, provides families with a compassionate and caring starting point by connecting them to a range of bereavement, grief, and loss resources.