12/16 – “Healing Through the Holidays”

Happy Heavenly Birthday Michelle Missing & Loving you, Mom The holidays come with added stress and sadness for anyone grieving a loved one which is why COPE is offering this special program for you. At Lifetime Syosset on December 16 @ 2:00 (details below) ~ part...

Welcome board members!

COPE is thrilled to welcome two new board members, Dr. Kristin Gill and Sonia Mukhi.    Learn more about them and new board member opportunities below. Dr. Kristin Gill is a Psychiatrist, Physician Executive expert, and thought leader in Women’s Mental...

Healing Tip – December 2023

The holidays can be a wonderful time of year for many as people begin to accessorize their homes with festive decorations for the season. For a person who is grieving perhaps this is a more difficult time. Grief is bad enough, but it can be magnified when the holiday...

Co-Presidents’ Message – November 2023

Over here, we lost some of them. But over there, they lost all of us. That’s a quote from the final scene of, perhaps, my all-time favorite TV show. I have a tendency to seek out extremely emotional TV shows and movies. If it doesn’t involve loss of some...

Healing Tip – November 2023

Grief as an Origin Story As I’ve been preparing my kids for Halloween and enjoying all the fantastical costumes, superheroes, and popular toys of my own childhood, it has reminded me of a topic I’ve been mulling over in my head for months. It started over the summer...