Grief Support Services
For more than 40 years, HopeHealth has offered comfort, dignity and compassion to patients and families in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
HopeHealth is offering virtual support during COVID-19. Learn about our virtual support groups.
The Center for Hope & Healing
Every person’s grief experience is unique. If you are grieving the loss of someone, we can help you toward a path of hope and renewal. The grief support professionals at our Center for Hope & Healing offer compassionate and individualized support for grief at any stage. We offer an expansive grief support group program and offer community programs like Camp BraveHeart for kids as well as remembrance events. Our grief support services are offered throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Counseling and Support Groups
Central to the mission of HopeHealth, we provide ongoing support and counseling to members of our community.
Our counselors can meet privately with individuals and families, both children and adults, in an office setting, in the community or at your home. Counselors have advanced training and experience in grief support and the emotional effects of serious illness.
We also offer a variety of grief support groups specific to what you may be experiencing. These include six-week sessions and ongoing general monthly groups led by trained facilitators. They are open to anyone who has experienced a loss regardless of whether hospice was used.
(If you are caring for someone with a memory impairment, you may be interested in our dementia caregiver support groups.)
Remembrance Events
HopeHealth hosts special events in Massachusetts and Rhode Island where you can remember a loved one. All events are free to attend.
A Summer Evening of Hope & Remembrance
HopeHealth hosted its annual remembrance event virtually this year in June. If you missed the live stream of our event, we invite you to watch the playback video.
Light Up a Life
Our annual remembrance event went virtual this year! We invite you to honor your loved ones memory and connect virtually with our community—a wonderful way to bring light during the darkest time of year.
Learn More About Our Remembrance Events
Call our Center for Hope & Healing at (888) 528-9077.
“Hope—a one syllable word that will keep you going when all of the other more impressive words have failed to sustain you.”
— Joni Aldrich, author and inspirational speaker
Community Crisis Interventions
Our hospice counselors are available when a sudden death occurs or otherwise impacts a group, such as workplace, school or other community. Services include immediate crisis intervention as well as ongoing support and education.
Grief Camps and Retreats
Our grief camps and retreats provide a safe and compassionate environment to be in company of others who are grieving.
Camp BraveHeart
For more than fourteen years, HopeHealth's summer grief support program, Camp BraveHeart, has been providing comfort and peace to kids coping with grief.
This program is offered free to kids ages 4 - 17 each year. In 2020, we offered the camp virtually due to COVID-19. Kids enjoyed art therapy, peer grief support, fun interactive animal programs with dolphins and horses, and more!
Weekend of Hope & Healing
This adult retreat, for ages 18+, includes a variety of interactive and hand-on activities designed to nurture the body, mind and spirit in a peaceful setting of lakes, woods, walking paths and campfires under the stars.
For questions or more information, please email GMurgo@HopeHealthCo.org or MIreland@HopeHealthCo.org or call (401) 365-8783.
Alternative Grief Support
HopeHealth's holistic approach to grief support goes beyond traditional interventions. These alternative services—yoga, meditation/mindfulness and art therapy—care for the mind, body and spirit.
Yoga for Grief and Healing
We partner with Shri Yoga in Pawtucket, RI, for this weekly yoga and meditation group tailored specially for people dealing with grief. All levels of yoga experience are welcome. Yoga and meditation are practiced on chairs and the floor, and journals and other materials are provided.
Art Therapy
When we create art, we give ourselves permission to examine all that is happening within our grieving bodies. We use art therapy to encourage movement of the imagination and release tension.
Meditation and Mindfulness Workshops
If you are coping with grief, the practice of meditation and mindfulness can be a source of healing. Meditation and mindfulness helps us:
- Be sensitive to our changing needs through the grief process
- Develop an attitude of self-care and compassion
- Reduce stress, increase emotional resilience and improve sleep
- Discover new meaning after the death of a loved one.
Held seasonally, our meditation and mindfulness workshops offer focus, self-awareness and inspiration. Anyone is welcome to attend. View our grief support schedule for details.
Grief Support Readings
Our large library of articles offers practical suggestions to help you work through your grief journey or support others in mourning.