The Centre for Living with Dying

The Centre for Living with Dying provides emotional support to adults and children facing life-threatening illness or the trauma of having a loved one die. The Centre also provides crisis intervention services and a broad based educational program on grief and loss. Whether clients choose individual counseling or grief groups, they are gently given tools for coping with loss and trauma. The Centre also has family counseling and group counseling for children and teens. For More information click here.

Special services include:

Healing Heart Youth Program
Bay Area CISM Team (Critical Incident Stress Management for emergency responders and healthcare professionals)
Circle of Care for people living with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones
Crisis Intervention on site at schools, businesses and community organizations
Community Education dealing with issues related to grief, death and trauma
Adult services
School Outreach Counseling

Profile:

Served over 130,000 clients since 1976
Trained volunteers and interns
Multi-cultural and multi-lingual
Educational programs on grief and loss
Crisis Intervention services
Deep commitment to a difficult mission
Support provided as long as the need exists
Unique counseling offering a safe, nurturing environment

The Centre is certified to provide law enforcement training, nurse training, clergy and mental health professional education and a variety of support groups, including survivors of suicide, survivors of homicide, breast cancer support, gay and lesbian grief support, parental grief and neo-natal grief.