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Offers a support group for individuals who have a lost a child, sibling, parent, spouse, partner, relative, friend, or co-worker to suicide.
Helps individuals with terminal illnesses live life to its fullest, up to the final moment.

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Hospice Care
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Respite/Home Health Care Volunteer Opportunities
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Palliative Care
Hospice Care Volunteer Opportunities
Bereavement Volunteer Opportunities
HALos collaborates with educators, community leaders, mental health and healthcare professionals. Receives referrals from the local public school systems, and collaborate with Broome Chenango Canine Help Group. This organization provides registered therapy dogs to families when needed. Opportunity to pet, touch, and talk to these therapy dogs has proven beneficial to some individuals.

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Pet Assisted Therapy
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
* Administers a national network of support groups for those who have experienced the loss of a child through early pregnancy loss, stillbirth or newborn death. Support and mutual support group referrals.* Provides training and resources available for caregivers and others in supportive roles.

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Bereaved Parent Support Groups
Offers a support group for those whose loved one or friend died by drug overdose.
* Offers a support group for those coping with the loss of a beloved pet. Monthly group sessions facilitated by grief counselors. Participants learn about the different stages of grief and how to work through feelings of grief, guilt, and loss.

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Pet Loss Support Groups
* Provides support to those individuals and groups who are in crisis, have lost someone to suicide and/or are feeling suicidal.* Offers a suicide survivor support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide.

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Suicide Loss Survivors Support Groups
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Suicide Prevention Hotlines
Support Group for those whose spouse has died. Meetings are a social breakfast format. Group meets Wednesdays 8am - 9am at Denny's restaurant in Vestal.

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Widow/Widower Support Groups
* Provides a mutual support group for those who have lost a loved one to homicide.* Provides wraparound services for victims of violence, not including Domestic Violence, with a referral from the City of Rochester Crisis Services or Pathways to Peace.

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Families/Friends of Homicide Victims Support Groups
Provides professional support, education, information and resources to bereaved in the community via support groups for adults, children and teens. Memorial services, referrals, community education counseling and community crisis intervention are also provided.
Support group for parents, family and friends of families who have experienced the death of a child.

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General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Bereaved Parent Support Groups
Bereaved Child Support Groups

Coordinates self-help emotional support for families grieving the death of their child of any age and from any cause. Provides support to parents (anyone in a guardianship role), grandparents, and adult siblings.

Provides bereavement workshops and support groups.
* Offers healthy living programs for health promotion and disease prevention. Support groups including: Pulmonary/Breathing issues, lymphedema, stroke, and grief.

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Disability/Health Condition Specific Support Groups
Wellness Programs
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Provides a general, young, and senior support group for widows and widowers.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention offers the Healing Conversations program and the International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day events. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention also offers other resources for those who have experienced suicide loss to include providing a listing of support groups in the region focused on suicide loss, but do not run or manage these groups.


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Suicide Loss Survivors Support Groups
Suicide Prevention Programs
Evening includes songs, prayer and scripture, reflection time, intercessions, and a memorial service to remember deceased spouses. The program concludes with a time for refreshments and fellowship.
Provides support group for individuals experiencing a loss. Specfic groups available for adults, children, and individuals who have lost their spouse or significant other.

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General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Widow/Widower Support Groups
Bereaved Parent Support Groups
Bereaved Child Support Groups
* Provides information on support groups or online support groups for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. www.afsp.org/coping-with-suicide/find-support/find-a-support-group

* Increases awareness about prevention, warning signs and the psychiatric illnesses most often responsible for suicide. This vital information has been disseminated to community groups, educators, parents, students and concerned individuals.
* Reduces suicide rates through initiating and participating in projects to develop, implement and evaluate innovative approaches to suicide prevention.
* Works closely with support group facilitators, first responders, clergy members, mental health professionals and others in the community, to help survivors cope with their loss, their pain, their questions and their journey of healing.
* Alerts public officials, legislators and national and community leaders to important suicide research and prevention initiatives and is a strong advocate for the needs and goals of the survivor community.

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Suicide Loss Survivors Support Groups
Public Awareness/Education
General Mental Health Information/Education
Provides professional support, education, information and resources to bereaved in the community via support groups for adults, children and teens. Memorial services, referrals, community education counseling and community crisis intervention are also provided.
Diabetic Support GroupLearn how to manage the disease with support from others with diabetes. Meets the last Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm in the Auditorium. Call 607-756-3591 for more information. Katte Faberzak.Coping with Cancer - Support GroupAll individuals, families and caregivers who are coping with, or are interested in learning more about cancer, are invited to attend. Cortland Regional Medical Center and the American Cancer Society serve as co-sponsors for the monthly support group meetings. Each meeting features a speaker on an important topic in the field of cancer or a topic of interest to families. Meets last Wednesday of each month at 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm in the Assembly Room.For more information contact: Dan Mullins; Support Group Leader at 607-756-5234, or Carey Wilk, RN; Cancer Nurse Navigator via phone at 607-753-3508.Area Agency on Aging Caregiver Support Group3 pm to 4 pm on the fourth Thursday of the month.Melissa Alzord, [email protected]

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General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Smoking Addiction Support Groups
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
* Offers a bereavement support group.
Offers two different support groups for bereaved parents; one group for parents of an infant or child who died by accident or illness and the other group for parents of an infant who died by miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death.

Coordinates self-help emotional support for families grieving the death of their child of any age and from any causes. Provides support to parents (anyone in a guardianship role), grandparents, and adult siblings.

Provides a support group for individuals coping with the loss of a loved one.