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:
WAYS TO REMEMBER
• 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
WAYS TO REMEMBER & HONOR YOUR LOVED ONE
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.
WAYS TO REMEMBER & HONOR YOUR LOVED ONE Four Seasons Foundation is grateful to have your friends and family make tribute gifts in memory of your loved one. Every gift made in memory of your loved one will be acknowledged to the person giving the gift and you will be given a list of names and the addresses of those who made the gifts. Please include in the obituary that gifts may be given to Four Seasons and mailed to Four Seasons Foun- dation at 211 N. Main Street, Hendersonville, 28792. Select a Permanent Gift of Tribute: Memorial Bricks and Pavers Purchase a memorial brick or paver to be displayed along the walkway of Greatrex Place, our administra- tive building, and the walkway of Elizabeth House, our inpatient facility. For more information and to purchase a brick or paver, visit us at FourSeasonsFDN.org or call us at 828.513.2440. Visit us online at FourSeasonsFdn.org for more ways to make gifts. We appreciate the opportunity to talk with you and thank you for helping us make care available to everyone who needs it in Western North Carolina. If you have any questions about ways to give, please contact: Four Seasons Foundation 211 N. Main Street Hendersonville, NC 28792 828.513.2440 FourSeasonsFDN.org Development@FourSeasonsCFL.org Four Seasons is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization as determined by the Internal Revenue Service. Contributions that are made without receiving goods or services in exchange are tax deductible as allowed by law. Direct gifts may be made in the form of cash, checks, credit cards, direct debit, stock, or in-kind contributions.
• 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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