How The Compassionate Friends can help

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Members of The Compassionate Friends (TCF), all of whom are bereaved, offer time to listen and share experiences and feelings in a safe place. We all have different needs and circumstances and TCF has a wide range of support services to try and meet your needs.

•  A Helpline where you can speak to a bereaved parent
•  A network of local TCF Contacts who may offer one-to-one visiting and hold group meetings (see below for details)
• Chapter Meetings every third saturday of the month with a lecture on grief or healing.
• Coffee Break usually at 6:00 PM and scheduled 10 days after the regular chapter meetings. These meetings are less formal than the Chapter Meetings and give you an opportunity to meet members of The Compassionate Friends in a more social atmosphere.
  
•  Support through letter and email with Contacts or other bereaved parents
•  A range of publications written within TCF, offering both practical and emotional support
•  A quarterly Newsletter  where parents and grandparents can write about their feelings as well as read about those of others; there is also a newsletter for brothers and sisters
•  A website offering information about TCF and the opportunity to communicate with other bereaved families
• Grief Share - (starting September 1, 2007) 13 weekly seminars held every Saturday at the Greenhills Christian Fellowship, Ruby Corner Garnet Sts, Ortigas Center, Pasig City and facilitated by Hector Guballa and Cathy Babao-Guballa
•  A program  of workshops or lectures on grief and healing , informal weekend retreats and an annual weekend gathering
  

Information supplied will always be treated in the strictest confidence and will not be passed to anyone outside TCF.

 

 The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to  assist families toward the positive resolution of grief  following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.