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 Evenings from 7-8:30pm From July 9th to August 13th, 2020 This group will take place virtually via Zoom. For more information and...

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 Janet Zimmerman, LCSW-R on  Thursday Evenings from 7-8:30pm From July 9th to August 13th, 2020 This group will take...

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 old mom. I found two bottles of hand sanitizer, again for each of us, and two of Clorox wipes. I had already spoken with...

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 that harkens back to the Great Depression 90 years ago? A political crisis that leaves my head spinning? There is a type of...

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 difficult. The world shatters around us and the things we thought we knew about life are called into question. Here is a list of...

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 6-8 feet away, my kids check up on me, my oldest friends call a lot, my siblings and I talk more, from short texts to long...

Telehealth Groups

Important Update – Changes to COPE support groups Dear COPE Families and Friends, During these uncertain and volatile times, COPE has never been more commited to our mission and our shared vision – ensuring that no parent or family grieving the loss of a...

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 advantage of all that technology has to to offer. You should have already received several emails requesting to e-sign a...

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 the prison in which I am kept Panic is the salt in my food Soap is my drug of choice Sanitizer is my manna from heaven...

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 of loss can shake us to our core. In this mini-sode, Karen and Liz speak with Adam Rabinovitch, Executive Director of COPE...