Listening to Grief: How to Help Someone Who Needs to be Heard (Part Five)
As editor of SADOD’s VOICES Newsletter, Luke Schmaltz publishes stories about bereaved individuals, the person they are grieving, and unique aspects of their journey through grief. After spending hundreds of hours conducting these incredibly emotional and powerful interviews, he has developed a set of skills which are essential to supportive, wholehearted listening. Learn about these key elements in our new series, Listening to Grief.
Stronger Together: Essex County Joins Forces With PSCP to Offer Peer Grief Support
PSCP has received a grant from Essex County Outreach to deliver individualized peer grief support to residents bereaved by deaths due to substance-related causes. Through this grant, we are able to provide in-person support throughout the county and work with partner organizations to better identify and reach bereaved individuals, providing them with crucial peer grief support services. Hear personally from PSCP’s Peer Grief Support Specialist and Essex County resident, Melissa Lezynski, on the importance of this grant and our commitment to offering tailored peer grief support.
Listening to Grief: How to Help Someone Who Needs to Be Heard (Part Four)
As editor of SADOD’s VOICES Newsletter, Luke Schmaltz publishes stories about bereaved individuals, the person they are grieving, and unique aspects of their journey through grief. After spending hundreds of hours conducting these incredibly emotional and powerful interviews, he has developed a set of skills which are essential to supportive, wholehearted listening. Learn about these key elements in our new series, Listening to Grief.
Listening to Grief: How to Help Someone Who Needs to be Heard (Part Three)
As editor of SADOD’s VOICES Newsletter, Luke Schmaltz publishes stories about bereaved individuals, the person they are grieving, and unique aspects of their journey through grief. After spending hundreds of hours conducting these incredibly emotional and powerful interviews, he has developed a set of skills which are essential to supportive, wholehearted listening. Learn about these key elements in our new series, Listening to Grief.
Listening to Grief: How to Help Someone Who Needs to be Heard (Part Two)
As editor of SADOD’s VOICES Newsletter, Luke Schmaltz publishes stories about bereaved individuals, the person they are grieving, and unique aspects of their journey through grief. After spending hundreds of hours conducting these incredibly emotional and powerful interviews, he has developed a set of skills which are essential to supportive, wholehearted listening. Learn about these key elements in our new series, Listening to Grief.
Listening to Grief: How to Help Someone Who Needs to be Heard
As editor of SADOD’s VOICES Newsletter, Luke Schmaltz publishes stories about bereaved individuals, the person they are grieving, and unique aspects of their journey through grief. After spending hundreds of hours conducting these incredibly emotional and powerful interviews, he has developed a set of skills which are essential to supportive, wholehearted listening. Learn about these key elements in our new series, Listening to Grief.
Recovery in Grief
Navigating recovery and navigating grief are two complex human experiences that are often filled with love. Read this heartfelt description of that journey from one of PSCP's staff members, Tavyn Bryn Thuringer.
Mindfulness in Grief
Mindfulness can play a beneficial role in the grief experience, as it allows us to slow down and pay attention to all that we are feeling. In this conversation, Franklin tells Laura about the ways in which he has incorporated a mindfulness practice in his grief journey and the impacts he has felt. To learn more about the specific mindfulness practice Franklin focuses on, Vipassana Meditation, please visit: www.healthline.com/health/vipassana-meditation.
Informed Foundations: Building Peer Grief Support for Direct Service Providers
Gabriel Quaglia is the program manager for the Direct Service Provider (DSP) Program at SADOD and Peer Support Community Partners (PSCP). Daily, Quaglia navigates the terrain of grief that comes with facilitating harm reduction, overdose response, and community outreach. Grief can weigh heavily on those who care for vulnerable populations – a burden Quaglia knows all too well. His deep understanding of the challenges DSPs face and his experience in harm reduction have given him expert insight into peer grief support.
Creative Grief Coping Strategies Workshop Recap
What do karate, songwriting, and photography have in common? They can all be coping tools in one’s grief journey. Check out this recap of our Creative Grief Coping Strategies workshop that was held in August. To register for upcoming workshops, visit bit.ly/grief-workshops.
Peer Support Community Partners: Transforming Grief Support
At Peer Support Community Partners (PSCP), we are a dedicated group of individuals with lived experience in grief and loss. We are committed to changing how grief is perceived and supported in the United States. We envision a world where conversations about grief are open, and support is easily accessible to everyone. Our mission is to integrate peer grief support as a fundamental practice in every community's response to those mourning the loss of a loved one.
A Look inside PSCP’s Equity-Centered Co-Design Work in Indianapolis
PSCP provides customized peer grief support solutions to groups of all sizes and structures. We recently had the pleasure of traveling to Indianapolis to facilitate a two-day training for individuals interested in implementing peer grief support in the city’s communities of color. This training was developed from an equity-centered approach, which has rendered compelling results.
PSCP’s Trauma-Informed Care Guidelines
Trauma-informed care is at the heart of everything we do at PSCP. Continue reading for the ten best ways to ensure you are providing trauma-informed care.
Finding Strength Together: Applying the RIVER Model to Peer Grief Support
Peer grief support allows people to see that they are not alone, their grief story is welcome, their grief reactions are understandable, they can find their way in their grief, and their grief is a process.