Our Mission:
The Mission of The Compassionate Friends: When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
--------------------------------------------------------
The Compassionate Friends was founded over 40 years ago when a chaplain at the Warwickshire Hospital in England brought together two sets of grieving parents and realized that the support they gave each other was better than anything he, as a chaplain, could ever say or provide. Meeting around a kitchen table, the Lawleys and the Hendersons were joined by a bereaved mother and the chaplain, Simon Stephens, and The Society of the Compassionate Friends was born. The Compassionate Friends jumped across the ocean and was established in the United States and incorporated in 1978 in Illinois.
Each chapter, along with the supporting National Office, is committed to helping every bereaved parent, sibling, or grandparent who may walk through our doors or contact us.
Today more than 640 chapters serving all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, offer friendship, understanding and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members during the natural grieving process after a child has died. Around the world, more than 30 countries have a Compassionate Friends presence, encircling the globe with the support so desperately needed when the worst has happened.
Copyright 2013
--------------------------------------------------------
The Compassionate Friends was founded over 40 years ago when a chaplain at the Warwickshire Hospital in England brought together two sets of grieving parents and realized that the support they gave each other was better than anything he, as a chaplain, could ever say or provide. Meeting around a kitchen table, the Lawleys and the Hendersons were joined by a bereaved mother and the chaplain, Simon Stephens, and The Society of the Compassionate Friends was born. The Compassionate Friends jumped across the ocean and was established in the United States and incorporated in 1978 in Illinois.
Each chapter, along with the supporting National Office, is committed to helping every bereaved parent, sibling, or grandparent who may walk through our doors or contact us.
Today more than 640 chapters serving all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, offer friendship, understanding and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members during the natural grieving process after a child has died. Around the world, more than 30 countries have a Compassionate Friends presence, encircling the globe with the support so desperately needed when the worst has happened.
Copyright 2013
Chapter Meetings of The Compassionate Friends of
Northeast Arkansas
We hold monthly meetings on the ************ of each month at the ******************************************************This is a safe and confidential environment where you can openly express your feelings without being judged or criticized. We encourage you to join us if you have lost a child, grandchild, of sibling of any age, any cause. We are here to encourage you and to give you hope -- to find a new normal. We are not counselors - we are ones too, who have lost a child, grandchild or sibling. We want to help you walk your long journey - WE NEED NOT WALK ALONE!! (Add your contact/location information)