Preparing the children of today for tomorrow...
Loss of a Loved One
This guide reviews how children grieve and how parents and other caring adults can help them better understand and adjust to a death. The information this guide provides can help parents and adults who are part of the lives of children who have experienced a loss know what to expect and how to help.
National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC) www.childrengrieve.org
Coalition to Support Grieving Students: GrievingStudents.org
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Local Bereavement & Support Groups |
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Services |
Phone |
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Family Service of Morris County |
973-538-5260 x 18 |
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Morristown Memorial Hospital |
973-971-5402 |
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Living with Dignity (Amie Harris): “Kaleidoscope” for Youth ages 10-15 and “Teddy Bear Club” for younger children (Morristown area) |
973-993-1466 |
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Center for Life Transitions, Bradley Funeral Home, Chatham (Scott Bradley) |
973-665-1782 |
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Presbyterian Church of Morris Plains (Lucy Deutsch) |
973-539-3481 x 15 |
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St. Pius X, Montville |
973-335-1436 |
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St. Virgil’s Church, Morris Plains |
973-538-1418 |
Good Grief, Inc.*
38 Elm Street
Morristown, NJ 07960
(908) 522-1999
http://www.good-grief.org
Services offered: Peer-support programs for children and teens (3-18), young adults (18-30), and surviving parent(s). Good Grief also provides
educational workshops and seminars to hospitals, hospices, schools, medical and mental health professionals, businesses and corporations
throughout New Jersey
American & NJ Self-Help Group Clearinghouses
Saint Clare's Behavioral Health Services
375 E. McFarlan St.
Dover, NJ 07801
(973) 989-1122
http://www.selfhelpgroups.org
Interregnum
PO Box 410
Montville, NJ 07045
(973) 224-6900
http://www.interregnum.org
Joseph T. Quinlan Bereavement Center
61 Spring Street
Newton, NJ 07860
973-940-0413
bereavement@karenannquinlanhospice.org
http://www.karenannquinlanhospice.org/bereavement/