MISSION STATEMENT

The Compassionate Friends is a mutual assistance self help organization offering friendship and understanding to bereaved parents and siblings.

The primary purpose is to assist them in the positive resolution of the grief experienced upon the death of a child and to support their efforts to achieve physical and emotional health.

The secondary purpose is to provide information and education about bereaved parents and siblings. The objective is to help those in their community, including family, friends, co-workers and professionals, to be supportive.

No religious creed or affiliation is involved. There are no dues, and no one is required to talk at meetings. You are welcome to come and listen.
 

"Those of us who have worked through our grief and found there is a future - are the ones who must meet others in the valley of darkness and bring them to the light." Rev. Simon Stephens, Founder - The Compassionate Friends