Grief Support

It’s quite common for people to need some extra help and support at a time of personal loss. We can offer assistance with a complete library of brochures that inspire and assist the process of healing.

We’ve also compiled a list of helpful resources as a service to our community.

Home Health and Hospice Care
 

Community Health Professionals, Inc.
3719 Shawnee Road        803 Brewfield Drive
Lima, OH 45806              Wapakoneta, OH 45895
(419) 991-1822               (419) 738-7430
http://www.comhealthpro.org

Offering visiting nurses, hospice, and bereavement support.
Serving Northwest and West Central Ohio


Bridge Home Health & Hospice
Findlay, Ohio 45840
(419) 423-5351


Grand Lake Hospice
200 St Clair Avenue
Saint Marys, Ohio 45885
(419) 394-7434
(800) 543-5115


Universal Home Health & Hospice
701 South Main Street
Bellefontaine, Ohio 43311
(937) 593-6333


Wilson Home Health & Hospice
915 West Michigan
Sidney, Ohio 45365
(937) 498-2311


St. Rita's Hospice
959 W North St
Lima, OH 45805-2457
(419) 226-9064

Bereavement Support Groups
 

Healing Memories Support Group

Healing Memories Support Group is here to give you a safe place in which to express your feelings of grief.

Teri Jones Lowe and Rev. Bruce D. Head, CPC (Certified Pastoral Counselor, with additional education in grief counseling) lead these monthly meetings, which are open to the public free of charge. Several times throughout the year, various specialists are brought in as presenters on a variety of topics for our support group.

For more information and meeting times call:

Teri Jones Lowe, Support Group Facilitator
(419) c394-3387 x2808
tlowe@jtdmh.org

Bruce Head, Pastoral/Bereavement Counselor for Grand Lake Health System
(419) 394-3387 x4035
bhead@jtdmh.org


Younger Widows/Widowers (near the age of 49) and Grief Journeys groups meet at various locations. Call Herb at St. Rita’s Hospice (419) (419) 226-9556 for group information.


Caring is a bereavement support group for parents and family members who have experienced the death of a baby. For more information please call Stephanie at (419) 226-9237 or Teresa at (419) 226-9342, at St. Rita’s Medical Center.


Trails Summer Camp for school aged youth, held in June. Good Grief Fun Camp is held in July. For more information, call Barb or Kim at St. Rita’s (419) 226-9064.


Church of the Nazarene offers an adult bereavement support group series at the church, in Lima. Please call (419) 223-9646 for information.


Compassionate Friends offers friendship and understanding to parents who have experienced the death of a child. For more information, please call Hardin County at (419) 757-3201, Putnam County at (419) 659-2475, or Van Wert (419) 238-0639. To find chapters throughout the U.S. call (877) 969-0010 or visit www.compassionatefriends.org.


Separated By Suicide. Call Dottie Kaiser of Pastoral Care (419) 228-3335.


Interfaith Grief Support Group sponsored by St. Charles Parish. Call the Church office (419) 228-7635.


A New Morning Call (419) 238- 9223 for information.


GriefNet.org
 An Internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss.

Books on Grief
 

The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Handbook for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses
Richard Lewis, Judson Press, 1996

I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One
Brook Noel, Champion Press, 2000

Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working through Grief
Martha Whitmore Hickman, Harper Paperbacks, 1994

No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
Carla Fine, Main Street Books, 1999

The Bereaved Parent
 Harriett S. Schiff, Penguin, 1978

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
 Rabbi Harold Kushner, Avon, 1983

The Art of Condolence: What to Write, What to Say, What to Do at a Time of Loss
Leonard Zunin, Harper Collins, 1992