Grief Support Services

Denying Sadness, denies healing.
By letting your heart break, you let your heart heal.
~ Gale Massey~

Grieving
Grief is a natural and necessary response to the significant loss in our lives, especially after the death of a loved one. Losses can be inextricably linked to growth as we learn to live by the loss of a loved one.

Call Hospice
when someone you know has lost
a loved one and needs compassion.

When someone dies, the world changes. We support anyone in our community who is grieving the loss of a loved one. Whether Hospice nurses cared for their loved one or not, whether the loss was expected or sudden, or whether the loss was recent or in the past.

  • Individual grief counseling with Hospice social work staff.
  • Grieving support groups facilitated by Hospice social work staff at the Hospice office. Please call for information.
  • Focused support groups for a variety of loss experiences facilitated by Hospice social work staff.
  • Circle of Friends, an on-going member-led support group for widows and widowers, meets Mondays at 10:30 a.m. at the First Congregational Church of West Tisbury Parish Hall.
  • Crisis grief counseling after sudden death
  • Bereavement volunteer visits
  • Bereavement letters with grief literature
  • Grief and bereavement library
  • Community education:“Living with Grief ”
    Hospice Foundation of America ’s annual
    teleconference