Healing Tip – March 2024
March is Social Worker Appreciation Month and has Creative Arts Therapy Appreciation Week! And shoutout to Play Therapy Awareness Week in...
Co-Presidents’ Message – February 2024
I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to share with all of you this month. The more I thought about it, the less clear I was. My brother’s...
Save the Date – “The Medium…The Music…and ME!”
COPE is thrilled to announce the new date for The Medium... The Music... and ME! at BACCA Arts Center in Lindenhurst, NY. A...
Healing Tip – February 2024
As we look back on our supportive programs from 2023 and begin to schedule our workshops for 2024, we want to express our deepest gratitude to...
Co-Presidents’ Message – January 2024
I like to do things with my hands. Admittedly, I’m not very good at it. I’m good at having ideas and envisioning things, but executing isn’t my...
Welcome to Jennifer Capozzoli
Jennifer Capozzoli began working at COPE in December 2023. Jen is currently an administrator at New York University and previously served in...
Healing Tip – January 2024
The new year has come! During this time, many people often think of new year’s resolutions they have and reflect on aspects of what they may want...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Co-President’s Message – October 2023
Greetings – As I write to you from a faraway location where I snuck away from a work conference for a few hours to go catch some incredible live...
Healing Tip – October 2023
Aspects of grief can feel jarring and destabilizing. As grievers experience the death, they must work through secondary losses like the absence...
Let us be a Lifeline
Grief can be overwhelming and powerful. It can keep you isolated and alone. It can have devastating consequences. It can shatter the world as you...
Parents’ Columns – September 2023
Andrew Michael Levinson 9/16/87 - 9/17/15 For Our Andrew - Life was never as expected. We couldn’t have imagined Muscular Dystrophy would be part...
My Grief Journey
My Grief Journey My son died in 2006. It is inconceivable to me that he died & how many years it is. I could not grasp how my heart could be...