Local Illinois Organizations:
Barr-Harris Children and Family Grief & Loss Center
https://barrharriscenter.org/
Provides services to recently bereaved children and parents.
Buddy’s Place
https://pillarscommunityhealth.org/services/behavioral-health-and-support-services/buddys-place-grief-support/
Offers family-based support groups for children and teens ages 4-18 and their families who are grieving the death of someone significant in their lives.
Cancer Wellness of Northbrook
https://www.cancerwellness.org/
Offers bereavement counseling and support groups for those who have lost a loved one to cancer.
Center for Grief Recovery
https://griefcounselor.org/
Provides an ongoing support group for bereaved families and individuals.
Department of Behavioral Sciences at Rush University
https://www.rush.edu/services/conditions/bereavement
Offers specialized bereavement counseling services and also offers a perinatal bereavement support group for women who have experienced a miscarriage.
Edward-Elmhurst Health
https://www.eehealth.org/services/pregnancy-baby/resources/
Offers a SHARE program for parents who have experienced ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant death. SHARE meetings are on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month from 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.
Fox Valley Hands of Hope
https://www.fvhh.net/
Offers short-term, individual counseling (two to three sessions) as well as two family support groups.
Gilda’s Club Chicago
https://www.gildasclubchicago.org/
Offers support for those who have lost a loved one to cancer.
Greater Illinois Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition
https://www.gippcc.org/
Increases access to compassionate, quality pediatric palliative care programming and bereavement support throughout the state of Illinois.
Heartlight Program at the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/patients-visitors/resources-support-services-for-families/bereavement-support/
Offers support groups for families who have lost a child and offer support groups for both Spanish and English speakers.
Kids Above All – Camp Sheilah
https://www.kidsaboveall.org/
Builds better lives for children and families impacted by poverty, violence, and injustice.
Lightways Hospice and Serious Illness Care
https://www.lightways.org
Provides a sense of guidance, a moment of comfort, and the powerful positivity of light to anyone grieving the death of a loved one.
LOSS (Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide)
https://www.catholiccharities.net/GetHelp/OurServices/Counseling/Loss.aspx
Provides a safe, non-judgmental environment where survivors of suicide can openly talk about feelings and experiences, and also help you to find community, direction, and resources for healing.
Loyola Medicine Hospice
https://www.loyolamedicine.org/hospice
Offers general grief support groups that meet and allow individuals to share their stories.
Lydia Home Association
https://www.lydiahome.org/
Offers individual and family counseling.
Missing Pieces
https://www.missingpiecesgrief.org/
Helps those who have experienced the loss of a child find needed resources to navigate their grief journey.
My Heartlinks Grief Center
https://www.myheartlinks.com
Connects with others who understand and counselors who can help you find ways to cope and ways to grow your hope.
Northern Illinois Hospice and Grief Center
https://northernillinoishospice.org/grief-healing/
Believes that no single way of grieving applies to everyone, you may find comfort in knowing that help is available in a variety of ways, including personal visits, support groups, newsletters, phone contacts, and various mailings and letters.
Northwestern Hospital, Palliative Care & Home Hospice Program
https://www.nm.org/conditions-and-care-areas/palliative-medicine-and-supportive-care
Northwestern Hospital, Palliative Care & Home Hospice Program provides education-based groups for adults who have lost another adult that meet for three-hour sessions during the day or evening.
Orland Park Church
https://www.orlandchurch.com/
Offers a support group for mothers to help them through the grief process of losing a child. The group meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at 1:00 p.m.
SIDS Alliance of Illinois
https://www.sidsillinois.org/
Offers a support group in Chicago that meets the third Monday of each month from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for parents who have lost a child to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
The Haven Network
https://www.thehavennetwork.org/
Is an independent Christian ministry offering life-affirming services, providing emotional, spiritual, and practical support for families who have experienced the death of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, SIDS, and early infant death, and families who are facing a terminal diagnosis of their pre-born or newborn baby.
University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital
https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/comer
Provides support groups for children, teens, and their adult caregivers.
Willow House
https://willowhouse.org
Develops and provides supportive services for children, teens, families, schools, and communities who are coping with grief and the death of a loved one.
