Calm Waters Center for Children and Families – Jason’s Story – Life beyond loss. Calm Waters helps children and families in their grief journey caused by death, divorce or other significant loss. Free support groups for children and families in Oklahoma after a death, divorce, or other major loss. 20 years in 2012. THE HISTORY OF CALM WATERS Calm Waters Center for Children and Families was founded in 1992, as the result of a nine-year old boy’s grief due to the loss of his father. It was through the eyes of this boy, Jason Woodruff, that a safe place for children to gather and share in their grief experience was envisioned. Thus, Jason and his mother Sondra, in partnership with Charlotte Lankard and the Baptist Medical Center Outpatient Counseling Department, convinced the Baptist Hospital Board of Directors to support the creation of an agency that would address children’s grief. Calm Waters Center for Children and Families was founded and modeled after The Dougy Center, a grief support center in Portland, Oregon. Initially, Calm Waters offered free support groups specifically for children (ages 5-18) and their parents, who were grieving the death of a loved one. However, in September 1994, as Oklahoma’s divorce rate increased, Calm Waters added groups for divorced parents and their children to incorporate support for the grief that is experienced in the loss of the family unit. After the Murrah Building bombing in 1995, Calm Waters immediately responded with a community debriefing for both children and adults. Support groups were …

Holiday grief counseling offered Dec. 13 in Reno

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By using art and music, the Solace Tree will help children and teens explore their grief, as well as offer support to adults with a workshop on how to help their grieving children and teens during the holidays. A dinner will be served through a grant …
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Advice offered to help children with grief

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For many, the grieving of their recently discovered deaths will continue through the cold months of winter. School counselors in both Waterloo and Cedar Falls said that is normal, especially for young children. The Waterloo Community School District …
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