Journey Program (Bereavement Program for Child Loss)

The Journey Program is for any family who has experienced the death of a child. We provide support to help families cope with death, loss and the grieving process.

Services We Offer

• Support groups for adults that are facilitated by trained and caring staff and volunteers
• Pediatric grief support through workshops and counseling
• Individual, couple and family counseling
• Suggestions for reading materials and referrals to other community resources
• Grief support to schools, businesses, and communities experiencing loss
• Bereavement education and training for the community
• Publication of quarterly newsletter

Resources

• Grief: Taking Care of Yourself (PDF) (Farsi) (French) (Japanese) (Russian) (Spanish) (Tagalog) (Ukrainian) (Vietnamese)
• Reactions to Grief (PDF) (Farsi) (French) (Japanese) (Russian) (Simplified Chinese) (Spanish) (Tagalog) (Ukrainian) (Vietnamese)
• Children's Grief: Talking to Your Child About Death (PDF) (Farsi) (Russian) (Spanish) (Vietnamese)
• Healing as a Single Parent (PDF) (French) (Russian) (Spanish) (Vietnamese) 
• Healing as a Couple (PDF) (French) (Japanese) (Russian) (Spanish) (Ukrainian) (Vietnamese)
• Grandparent Grief (PDF) (French) (Russian) (Spanish) (Vietnamese) 
• The Compassionate Friends  
• Northwest Infant Survival and SIDS Alliance  
• Parent Support of Puget Sound  
• Providence Hospice: Grief Support  
• Centering Corporation and Grief Digest Magazine  

Books

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, Joanne Cacciotore
• How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness, Kathleen McCue
• Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child, Earl A. Grollman
• How Do We Tell the Children?, Dan Schaeffer and Christine Lyons
• When Someone Very Special Dies, Marge Heegaard
• What Does That Mean?, Harold Ivan Smith and Joy Johnson
• Lifetimes, Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen

Related Information

• Support Groups  
• Social Work  
• Family Resource Center  
• Spiritual Care 

We host quarterly community building events for grieving families. If you would like more information on these events, please contact the Journey Program directly at 206-987-2062 or [email protected]

I didn't even know what I needed when our child first died, and Journey was a place I could come and talk and others just understood.

– Parent

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