Resources
Websites offering support and information:
- www.caringbridge.org - CaringBridge - free personalized web sites for family and friends during significant life events.
- www.centeringcorp.com - Centering Corporation and Grief Digest Magazine
- www.compassionatefriends.org - The Compassionate Friends
- www.griefwatch.com - Grief Watch
- www.handonline.org - HAND: Helping After Neonatal Death
- healingcenterseattle.org - The Healing Center's mission is to provide a safe, supportive, confidential, and nurturing environment for people to move through their grief. Its sole purpose is to provide support to individuals, families and youth who are struggling with loss.
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital - How to care for a terminally ill child.
- www.misschildren.org - MISS Foundation (Mothers In Sympathy and Support)
- Nalanda West sponsored a special interfaith conference entitled, "Dying Well: Sacred Rituals and Caring Communities" March 8-9, 2008. View more information here.
- Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County's Carousel Program for children and their families.
- Providence Health Stepping Stones Program open to any child with a life-limiting illness in King County.
- www.silentgrief.com - Silent Grief
Websites related to specific illnesses, diseases or causes of death
- www.asfhelp.com - Anencephaly Support Foundation
- www.birthdefects.org - Birth Defect Research for Children, Inc.
- www.candlelighters.org - Candlelighters: Childhood Cancer Foundation
- www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/ - National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- gildasclubseattle.org - Gilda's Club of Seattle, named in tribute to the late comic actress Gilda Radner who died of ovarian cancer in 1989, is a community meeting place for people living with cancer, their families and friends.
- thinkpinkphotography.org - Supports individuals and their families who have been touched by breast cancer.
More Websites
- www.curesearch.org - CureSearch: National Childhood Cancer Foundation
- www.cff.org - Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- www.marchofdimes.com - March of Dimes One of the nation’s largest non-profits devoted solely to preventing birth defects and reducing infant mortality.
- www.missinggrace.org - Missing Grace - education about and prevention of stillbirth.
- www.ntsad.org - National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association
- www.trisomy.org - SOFT: Support Organization for Trisomy 18, 13 and Related Disorders
- The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation - The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation
Books
There are an abundance of titles that deal with grief, loss and coping.
Many of the sites listed above contain very extensive lists of quality
books. Click here to see a list of some of the books that have been read and recommended
by members of the Soulumination family.
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