COMPASS: GRIEF SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN & TEENS
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Since children and teens also grieve in their own way, Four Seasons offers the Compasss program, Four Seasons’ child and adolescent grief services. The Compass program offers help to grieving children and teens who are surviving a recent loss or dealing with the anticipated death of a loved one. Compass grief services are available to 3 to 18-year-olds, from the time the patient is admitted to hospice care and can be accessed at any time following the death of the loved one. Compass provides education about children’s grief processes and experiences while offering support through individual and group counseling sessions, workshops, and other events. Through the Compass program, children learn about grief and develop strategies that help them work through the process. Compass staff members will also work with parents and other caregivers to help them build confidence in caring for grieving children. Compass Offers:
• Individual counseling • Grief support groups • Educational material and grief workshops
• In-person programs to pro- mote connection, healing, and grief education
• Printed and on-line reading materials • Consultation, presentations, tranings, and resources
The Bill of Rights for Grieving Children and Teens adapted from The Bill of Rights for Teens Who Are Grieving, created by teens who are grieving at Dougy Center As grieving children and teens, we have the right to: • Know the truth about the death, the person who died, and the circumstances surrounding the death. • Ask questions and have them answered honestly.
• Be heard and listened to without receiving unsolicited advice. • Be silent and not share our thoughts and emotions out loud. • Disagree with others’ perceptions and conclusions. • See the person who died and the place where they died, if we choose. • Grieve in our own ways without hurting ourselves or others. • Feel all the feelings and think all the thoughts of our own unique grief. • Not have to follow the “stages of grief” as outlined in a health book. • Be angry at death, the person who died, God, ourselves, and/or others. • Have our own beliefs about life and death. • Be involved in the decisions about the rituals related to the death. • Have irrational guild about we could have done to prevent the death. How to Access Grief Services and Compass If you would like to speak with Grief Services, please call us at 866.466.9734.
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