Individual and Family Counseling

Community Hospice bereavement counselors provide individual, family and children's counseling to help those who have experienced the death of a loved one and who may need support or guidance in dealing with the grief associated with that loss.

Therapeutic Grief Support Groups

Community Hospice support groups provide a safe place for you to explore and express your grief in a comfortable setting, and bond with others who have experienced a similar loss.

Community Hospice offers daytime and evening therapeutic grief support groups throughout the year. The groups are led by our professional grief counselors and meet on the same day/night of the week for eight consecutive weeks. To see what groups are currently offered view our Events Calendar.

To learn whether individual, family counseling or a support group might be right for you, please call 904.407.7001 to schedule an appointment.

Group participants often tell us that they feel like their group has become a family. “Knowing that I’m not alone and being able to talk freely helped me on the road to healing.”

New Grief: Good Grief

New Grief: Good Grief is a program for the newly bereaved designed to help identify common grief reactions and to learn that healing is possible after the death of a loved one. This free workshop provides grief education and emotional support within a safe, secure environment. New Grief: Good Grief workshops are most helpful for those who have experienced a loss within the last 90 days, and are at least 18 years old. Workshops are held throughout the year at various locations.

Hope for the Holidays

Hope for the Holidays workshop is created for families, friends and caregivers who have experienced the death of a loved one to help them reflect on their loss, cope with grief reactions and restore a sense of hope for the upcoming season.

Hope for the Holidays workshops are held in November and December at various locations throughout our community. Participation is available at no charge and open to the public. To view the workshops offered for the coming holiday season, see our Events Calendar.

The Griever’s Holiday Bill of Rights

Candlelight Services of Remembrance

Candlelight Services of Remembrance are held several times throughout the year to celebrate and honor the memory of your loved ones who have died. The non-denominational services include a program of liturgy, music and the lighting of candles. Attendees are encouraged to bring a photo or memento of their loved one to display on a Memory Table. If you have experienced the death of a loved please plan to attend. For a listing of dates and locations offered this year.

Annual Tree of Life Lighting Ceremony and Candlelight Service of Remembrance is held at the Earl B. Hadlow Center for Caring every December. The event features the illumination of more than 60,000 lights on trees around the campus to represent the life of each person cared for during Community Hospice's more than 30 years of service. The celebration includes a special spiritual liturgy, music and candlelight to commemorate the lives of your loved ones who have died. You are invited to bring a photograph of your loved one to display on the memory tables.

For more information about the annual Tree of Life lighting ceremony, contact Community Hospice Foundation at 904.886.3883.

For dates of upcoming events, please see our calendar page.

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