The nucleus programs established at The Center for Grief and Loss for Children are:

SUPPORT GROUPS
Group sessions are provided for children and their families for healing from grief and loss experiences with an emphasis on multi-cultural facilitators and support groups. The sessions are free to all family members in English and Spanish.

Statistics support that grieving children who attend bi-weekly support groups benefit from the concrete support, delivered with sensitivity and understanding, thereby achieving positive and successful re-attachment with other children and adults who have ad similar experiences.

Parents are encouraged to take the 7 hour training course to better understand their child's grief process.

GRIEF AND LOSS TRAINING
Provides grief and loss training for therapists, clinicians, teachers, after-school personnel, clergy persons, parents and volunteers to provide concrete and supportive counseling for children and teens. The training manuals are based on years of experience with grief and loss counseling by Alice Parsons Zulli, Joan Etherton, MA, a graduate of Pacific Oaks College, an institution renowned worldwide for their emphasis on developing creative, new ideas on how to care for the child, and Fran Wintroub, PhD, who has over 20 years of experience as a LCSW and work in the Pediatric Oncology field.

The California Board of Behavioral Science and the California Board of Registered Nursing has authorized 30 CEU's for training.

PROGRAMS
"Wee Construction" is an original program developed for The Center and is specifically tailored to empower young children. The game includes "We Connect" chips that are given to the children to memorialize their parent or sibling.

See our Los Angeles Times article on the "Wee Construction" program.

To order "We Connect" chips, please email us or call 818 245-1151.
Chips are available for $1 each plus postage, with discounts available when ordering over 50 chips.