GRIEF GUIDANCE
A Funeral Home’s involvement in the grieving process is limited. While the services we provide are an integral initial step in the process of healing, there are professionals and organizations that are best qualified to offer assistance and act as a resource to families. We encourage taking some time to view the list of resources that may prove to be helpful.
Bereaved Families of Ontario
Phone: 519-686-1573
Bereaved parents self help/mutual aid. Monthly support meetings, one on one support, lending library, speakers bureau, miscarriage support, newsletter. Also offers Young People’s Grief Support, a teen and young adult support workshop for youth ages 15 to 23, and Children’s Grief Support Group for children ages 7 to 14 who have experienced the death of a sibling or parent.
Phone: 519-686-1573
Bereaved parents self help/mutual aid. Monthly support meetings, one on one support, lending library, speakers bureau, miscarriage support, newsletter. Also offers Young People’s Grief Support, a teen and young adult support workshop for youth ages 15 to 23, and Children’s Grief Support Group for children ages 7 to 14 who have experienced the death of a sibling or parent.
Canadian Mental Health Association
Phone: 519-434-9191
London-Middlesex Branch Offers support to adults who have lost a friend or relative to suicide. The Suicide Bereavement Support Group is a peer support group meeting monthly. Registration not required. The Survivors of Suicide group is a professionally facilitated group offered twice annually for 8 weekly sessions.
Phone: 519-434-9191
London-Middlesex Branch Offers support to adults who have lost a friend or relative to suicide. The Suicide Bereavement Support Group is a peer support group meeting monthly. Registration not required. The Survivors of Suicide group is a professionally facilitated group offered twice annually for 8 weekly sessions.
Family Service Thames Valley
Phone: 519-433-0183
Provides bereavement counselling on sliding scale to residents of London and Middlesex.
Phone: 519-433-0183
Provides bereavement counselling on sliding scale to residents of London and Middlesex.
London Health Sciences Centre
Phone: 519-667-6640
Website: www.lhsc.on.ca/mhcp/child/outpatie.html
Child and Adolescent Centre Individual counselling for children and adolescents age 15 or younger. Special interest in areas of post trauma and complicated grief.
Phone: 519-667-6640
Website: www.lhsc.on.ca/mhcp/child/outpatie.html
Child and Adolescent Centre Individual counselling for children and adolescents age 15 or younger. Special interest in areas of post trauma and complicated grief.
Individual grief counselling is provided by oncology social workers to family members whose loved one was a patient at the Centre.
A 5-week support group for preschoolers/children age 2 to 7 years and their parent/caregiver who have been affected by a death.
485 Windermere Road
London, Ontario, N5X 2T1
Phone: (519) 438-2102
