COPE Walk 2020
Join us for COPE Walk 2020! Each year we walk to honor our children, siblings and loved ones who have passed and to support COPE families and the...
President’s Message – September 2020
It will be September when you read this column, but it will be unlike any previous September in my lifetime. You are living those changes just as...
Healing Tip – August 2020
The term compounded grief is exactly that, when all of our grief from over a lifetime gets lumped together, and then causes us to downward spiral...
President’s Message – August 2020
I try to read less news, watch less news, and worry less about the news I do see. I am not succeeding but I have, however, noticed a slight...
COVID Support Group
A healing space for those who have experienced the death of a loved one due to COVID Please join Janet Zimmerman, LCSW-R on Thursday...
COVID Support Group
A healing space for those who have experienced the death ofa loved one due to COVID COPE is now offering a COVID GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP Please join...
President’s Message – July 2020
Now what? For me, this pandemic started by the end of February. I had already bought a box of masks and one of gloves, both for me and my 90 year...
President’s Message – June 2020
It is three months into this new covid-19 world. Is it still possible to be optimistic? A pandemic of biblical proportions? An economic crisis...
Healing Tip – May 2020
Grief during a time of social isolation Even under the best circumstances, coping with grief and loss after the death of a loved one is...
President’s Message – May 2020
I was thinking about how much I seem to be “taking” these last two months—nearby friends shop for me, neighbors walk with me, albeit masked and...
Telehealth Groups
Important Update - Changes to COPE support groups Dear COPE Families and Friends, During these uncertain and volatile times, COPE has never been...
Healing Tip – April 2020
Telehealth...Give it a try. In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic and the necessity to practice social distancing, COPE is taking...
President’s Message – April 2020
It has been crazy I have been crazy My body has been making me nuts The news has landed in my belly and made me sick Worry has become...
Minisode: When a Child Dies – Coping and Community
EPISODE SUMMARY How can we confront the loss of a child? As parents, it’s hard to contemplate how we’d ever move forward. As siblings, this type...
Healing Tip – March 2020
Defining Our Grief Grief in the general sense is a reaction to loss. We connect the concept of grief to death, however, grief can be associated...
President’s Message – March 2020
It’s that time of year……temperature is two degrees outside, bright sun bouncing off snow and ice, pale blue sky wherever you look and almost no...
Healing Tip – February, 2020
February is the month of love. We spend a lot of time and energy showing our love to others. While this is a beautiful expression, I would like...
President’s Message – February, 2020
Grief is grief. We all mourn our losses. How we mourn, however, is shaped by many factors. Religious and cultural practices shape our beliefs and...