Individual and Family Counseling is available by calling the office nearest you.

• Living with Loss Group: A once-per-week, time-limited group providing education and support for individuals who have experienced the death of a significant person in their life. Offered periodically at each location.
• Finding Resilience: An ongoing support group for individuals who have completed a Living with Loss group and are early in their grief journey.
• Rebuilding Our Lives: An ongoing support group for those that are further along in their grief journey and are focused on building a new life.
• Yoga Grief Support: An ongoing grief group using gentle mat yoga to help you focus on and cope with your physical and emotional grief experience. Facilitated by Bereavement Counselor Annette Deguch RYT500 (Registered Yoga Teacher). Open to current clients of the Bereavement Department.
• Forget Me Not: An ongoing support group for parents who have experienced the death of a baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or infancy.
• Grieving the Loss of an Adult Child Group: A group that supports parents who have experienced the death of their adult child.
• Young Widows and Widowers: An educational and ongoing support group for widows/widowers age 55 and under who have experienced the death of their partner or spouse.
• Good Grief Gals: An ongoing support group for women whose partner/spouse has died.
• Good Grief Guys: A monthly gathering for men dealing with the death of a partner/spouse.
• Loss After Addiction Group: An ongoing educational and grief support group for people who have experienced the death of a loved one to overdose and/or abuse of alcohol/drugs.
• After Images Art Counseling Program: Provides an opportunity for individuals to explore grief through the use of art, painting, and drawing in an expressive counseling program. No art experience is needed. Offered at our Mishawaka office.
• Movie & Chat: Join other bereaved in viewing a movie with grief themes and then participate in an optional roundtable discussion. Offered regularly throughout the year.

Children and teens are typically unaccustomed to understanding and processing their grief. Center for Hospice Care’s Life Transition Center has programs and services to help.

• Children’s Grief Support Group: A once-per week time-limited group providing education and emotional support to children, ages 6-12, dealing with the death of a loved one.
• Teen’s Grief Support Group: This is an ongoing group for teens, ages 13-17 (18 if still in high school), that have experienced the death of someone significant in their lives. The group provides grief education and the opportunity for grieving teens to share with and be supported by their peers.
• School Groups: Time-limited grief support groups are offered at area schools. Please call for more information.

Camp Evergreen:

• A Saturday grief camp in early summer for youth and teens ages 10-17 (18 if still in high school) that have experienced the death of a significant person in their lives.
• A Saturday workshop in the fall for parents/guardians and their children, ages 6-12, that have experienced the death of a significant person in their lives.

Some people have difficulty expressing their grief either in individual or group counseling sessions. We’ve found that they may need a different outlet and that art could be a good channel for their emotions. Our art counseling programs offer a deeply personal counseling experience that can help reticent individuals cope with grief. To learn more, please visit our After Images page.

We organize an annual camping activity where children and teens get to break the monotony of their daily life and meet other people their age who’ve also experienced loss. Participants get to release their emotions through outdoor camping activities. They will have kind and caring adults who’ll show them that it’s okay to have fun and continue enjoying life. Learn more on our Camp Evergreen page.

Center for Hospice Care has multiple bereavement groups and events to help anyone through any stage of the grief process.

• Daughters Remembering Workshop:  A workshop for women who are at least 6 months since the death of their mother. It provides a supportive grief experience with facilitated group sharing and time for individual reflection.
• Handling the Holidays: Educational and supportive sessions focused on ways to cope with the holidays.
• Presentations: Bereavement Counselors are available to do presentations on issues related to grief & loss and death & dying.
• Memorial Service: A service of remembrance is offered once a year.
• Movie & a Chat: Join other bereaved in viewing a movie with grief themes and then participate in an optional roundtable discussion. Offered periodically throughout the year.

For a complete list of bereavement groups click on Grief Support Booklet.

Please contact our bereavement department at 574-255-1064 for a list of locations, dates and times.