BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President
  Susan E. Whitmore

Vice President
  Wendell A. Whitmore

Treasurer
  Alice M. Fellows

Secretary
  Shelley Goodman

Chairperson
  Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben

Chairperson
  Didi Carr Reuben

 

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Jack Canfield
  Co-Author Chicken Soup for the Soul© & Success
  PrinciplesÒ

Roger Dafter, Ph.D.

Judith Ford, M.D., Ph.D.

Katherine Henderson

Michael Josephson
  Founder, Josephson
  Institute of Ethics
  Character Counts,
  KNX Radio

Marc and Violet Klaas
  Founder, President
  Klaas Kids and
  Beyond Missing

Gilda Martindelcampo
  Spanish Consultant

Wayne Neiman
  Studio Executive

Richard Riordan,
  Former Mayor
  City of Los Angeles

Anne Roberts
  Attorney at Law

Pamela Washburn,
   M.Div., BCC

Graham Woolf, M.D.,
   and Jennifer Woolf

CANADA

Loraine Adams, Calgary

When a child dies . . .
the loss
lasts a lifetime.

Parents don't "get over" it.
They don't "go through" it.
They learn to live with it . . . forever.
And we help them do just that.

Your donation is critical for us

to continue providing love, hope, and support

to parents thrust upon the lifelong journey

of rebuilding their lives

without their child.

Please make an important difference
by contributing to
griefHaven

What We Provide

  • Unlimited access to the multiple resources and support tools of griefHaven.org
  • Free 24/7 chat board for parents to share and seek help─anytime, anywhere
  • Regular griefHaven Newsletter supporting bereaved parents and educating family members, friends, and grief specialists
  • Regular griefHaven Newsletter supporting siblings and their families
  • Outstanding DVD, Portraits of Hope, interviews 12 bereaved parents and how they traveled the path of grief
  • Support group meetings facilitated by counselors both certificated and bereaved
  • Individual grief counseling by certificated grief counselors (also bereaved)
  • Worldwide grief counseling via telephone or Skype
  • Free Packet of Hope that includes grief support for parents and siblings, specific grief resources and support tools, grief education, and more
  • Free grief pins by Susan Elizabeth Designs
  • Three-day griefHaven workshop:  weekend intensives in surviving, coping, and healing from the death of a child
  • Educational speaking engagements tailored to parents, therapists, and specialists
The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation (griefHaven's official name) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation 100% of your donation supports grieving parents and their families [griefHaven is an all volunteer, nonprofit corporation and pays no salaries]

The Psychiatric Diagnostic Statistical Manual states that losing a child is a catastrophic stressor unlike any other
All of the recommendations contained in this website are from other parents who have lost a child
The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and operates on a volunteer basis.
© 2003-2012 The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation


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