Grief Resources

CentraCare Resouces

Loss and grief have a large impact on people’s lives. We offer a variety of supportive and therapeutic services to help you cope and carry on with life.

• Behavioral Health Services
• CentraCare Hospice
  
  • Heart Shaped Pickles: Gentle Grief Support for Kids and Grownups
  • Hospice Remembrance Service Video
  • A Song is Somewhere to Begin: Music-Inspired Grief Support Video
  • Sudden Loss: A Guide to Understanding Traumatic Grief
  • Survival Guide for Early Grief
  • Talking to Kids About Death
  • When Teens Are Grieving
  • When You Are Grieving
• Coborn Healing Center
• End-of-Life Decisions (PDF)
• Grief Support Groups
• Palliative Care
• St. Cloud Hospital Children’s Center
  
  • Perinatal Loss Bereavement Services: Ongoing support for families experiencing miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth or newborn death.
  • Perinatal Loss Bereavement Support Group
  • Pediatric Bereavement Services: Assistance through communication, support and grief materials for the dying child and family experiencing this devastating event.
• Spiritual Care Services

Community Resources

• Befrienders and Stephen Ministry: Trained lay people from area churches enter into caring relationships with others at times of special needs. Ministry to the elderly, seriously ill and to those who have experienced loss through death, unemployment or other crises. Contact your church for information about Befrienders or Stephen Ministry.
• Granite City Counseling: Catholic Charities has an outpatient counseling and behavioral health facility that offers individual, couple and family grief counseling by licensed therapists. Call 320-650-1660.
• Project Rachel: Project Rachel is the name of the Catholic Church’s healing ministry to those who have experienced abortion. Project Rachel operates as a network of healing composed of specially-trained caregivers to provide direct care to women, men and adolescents who have been touched by a loss through abortion.
• Whitney Senior Center: Whitney Senior Center is a community-oriented organization providing a variety of social and educational opportunities for citizens, predominately age 55 and older, in the St. Cloud area.