UPCOMING EVENTS
JAGST Offering Grief Support Group
The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is offering a grief support group for anyone who is grieving the loss of someone important to them, whether the loss is recent or from years past. The group will meet once a week at 6:30 pm at the United Presbyterian Church, 302 2nd Ave SE, Jamestown, beginning on Monday, April 8, 2024 and will run for 6 weeks.
In his book, Understanding Your Grief, internationally recognized expert in the field of loss and grief, Dr. Alan Wolfelt states, “You can benefit from a connectedness that comes from people who have also had a death in their lives. Support groups, where people come together and share the common bond of experience, can be invaluable in helping you and your grief and supporting your need to mourn long after the event of the death”
In our fast paced society, people who have had a significant loss are often expected to be ‘over it’ in a matter of a few weeks. They may even expect this of themselves. In reality, it may take years for someone to work through his or her grief. The support group experience helps individuals to understand and express grief in their own unique way and on their own unique timetable.
The group is free of charge, however, participants must pre-register to ensure that enough materials are available. Participants should plan to attend all six sessions. For more information, or to register please call Eileen at 701-269-4521
or Diane at 701-320-4915.
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The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is offering a Grief Support Group for parents who have lost a child either recently or in years past. The group will meet once a week for four weeks beginning Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 6:30 pm at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 424 1st Ave South, Jamestown, ND.
There is nothing that can prepare you for the death of your child, whether that child is very young or an adult. We are conditioned to believe that our children will outlive us. When that doesn’t happen, the devastation that parents feel is overwhelming and life changing. Continuing with day to day life may seem almost impossible. Even the most ordinary of tasks or activities become monumental.
Spending time with other parents who have experienced the loss of a child can be extremely therapeutic. Even though family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers may offer sympathy and support, interacting with people who “have been there”; people who “get it” can be the most comforting, healing and helpful way to deal with the myriad of intense emotions parents experience after losing a child.
This group is for any parent who has experienced the death of a child, whether the child was an infant, an adult or anywhere in between; and whether this death was recent or years ago. The group is free of charge, however, participants are required to pre-register to ensure that enough materials are available. To get the most benefit from the group, participants should plan to attend all four sessions.
For more information, or to register, please call Cecelia at 701-269-4236.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Group
Contact Renae Lunde at 320-7238
TEARS Foundation Support Group
For parents who have lost a child of any age
Contact Regina Olson at 417-522-3594