A Loving Journey
:: Complete Services ::
Once our nonprofit is entirely up and running we will offer the services listed below. To see what we are offering at this time please visit our Current Services page. If there is something that you need that is not listed on our current services page we may be able to help you or direct you to someone who can. You may Contact Me to request such support. Lots of Love to You!
Direct Client Care:
1. Grieving and Healing resources (including cultural healing rituals)
2. Items for birth, pre-birth, after-birth, memory, grieving and healing(this would include memory bracelets, foot molds, stress herbs, etc..)
3. Home visitation after the loss
4. Memorial items
5. Relationship support
6. Tangible support such as: school tutoring, contacting employer, cleaning, childcare, food network, etc.. Whatever they need to decrease stress and allow time to grieve.
7. Help with funeral arrangements, memorials, birth/death announcements, funeral costs, death and life certificate
8. Provide special gifts to family on their important dates
9. Provide information to help with physical care such as helping a mother when her milk comes in.
10. Maintain a Memorial Wall.
11. Connect families who have experienced similar losses.
12. Help parents understand their babies condition and reasons for their loss, help them ask necessary questions to their doctors, help them share their news with family, friends, bosses, teachers, and more.
13. Maintain a lending library & parent newsletter & supply of informational pamphlets
14. Provide client follow-up beyond direct services.
15. Help families through Holidays with special tangible ideas.
16. Provide help to families who are TTC after a loss
17. Provide help to families who are pregnant after a loss including doppler rentals
18. Provide help to families who are parenting after a loss and congratulatory gifts for miracle babies
19. Provide personalized information to family, friends, co-workers, employers, professors of those who have experienced a loss on how they can provide help.
20. Help families provide thank you's and recognition to those special people who helped them along the way
21. Help with pet adoptions
Community/National Education & Outreach:
21. Comprehensive website
22. Be an advocate in the community for loss of this type, create community awareness activities, celebrate national loss holidays
23. Compile information on pregnancy and infant loss
24. Connect to local businesses that may offer free support or discounts such as massage therapists, artists, herbalists, and more.
25. Provide information to local health care centers about the need for sensitivity training (and at some point offer that training ourselves) and advocate for families who did not receive adequate care. (This will include awareness among dr.s about IC, stickers for doors and files to help out and more)
26. Create a book to help others start a similar nonprofit organization
27. Offer others the opportunity to start a chapter in their area
28. Gravesite services: visit gravesites when families cannot do so themselves
29. When appropriate encourage organizations, media, and more to include mothers with a loss in their publications, media, etc.. about mothering.
Support for Family, Friends, Employers, Professors, and Health Care Professionals:
29. Give information to help others best support their loved ones who are experiencing a loss. Maybe even connect these people as well so they will not feel so alone.
30. Provide information to local health care centers about the need for sensitivity training (and at some point offer that training ourselves) and advocate for families who did not receive adequate care. (This will include awareness among dr.s about IC, stickers for doors and files to help out and more)
31. Provide Information to professors & employers so that families experiencing a loss can get the support they need outside the home. Act as a buffer between employer/professor and families when necessary.
32. Provide awards to those who give special support to these families.