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The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families - Portland Oregon

The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families - Portland Oregon

The Dougy Center provides a safe place for children, teens, young adults and their families who are grieving a death to share their experiences. We do this through peer support groups, education, and training.

The Dougy Center serves 380 children and their 250 adult family members each month. Twenty-six, open-ended peer support groups meet every other week and are divided by age, type of death (illness, sudden death, murder, suicide) and who died (parent, sibling). The concurrent 26 adult support groups meet at the same time for the caregiver of the child or teen who is attending group.

Since its founding, The Dougy Center has served over 22,000 children, teens and their families and has received national and international acclaim for its pioneering peer support model for helping children cope with the death of a family member. Through a National Training Program and training materials, thousands have learned how to help grieving children and 186 programs modeled after The Dougy Center have been established worldwide.

Launch: January 2009

Visit this site at: dougy.org