Heartlinks Grief Center
The Heartlinks Grief Center’s mission is to be a grief support center for all grieving people in our community. What began as a small program in 1997 supporting children who had a lost a loved one in hospice has grown into a full-service center that provides peer support, individual and family counseling, and mobile programs to hundreds of people of all ages in our service area, including six counties in Southwestern Illinois. Over the past two decades, Heartlinks has successfully designed and implemented numerous grief support programs for people of all ages living in both rural and inner-city areas. The Heartlinks Grief Center provides direct service to an average of 800 children and their families each year
Heartlinks Services Currently Available
KIDS/TEENS:
Monthly age-appropriate peer groups for kids 2-20 and their families
TAG (teen groups in local high schools)
Individual supportive counseling
Mobile Outreach- grief education program for community groups
After school Program- mentoring and after school centers
FAMILIES:
Monthly social outings
Holiday support
Family counseling
Adult Counseling
Before a Loss- Counseling for managing life-limiting/threatening illness
ADULTS:
Parenting Alone (young widow/widower parenting group)
Grandparents Raising Grieving Grandparents
Aching Arms (with Compassionate Friends)
Facing the Future (daytime adult support group)
PROFESSIONALS:
Education and training about grieving kids and families
Assistance with grief group development
Choose Heartlinks
With so many other non-profits looking for support, it can be hard to choose who most needs the help. Choose Heartlinks because your child one day is going to lose you or the unthinkable will happen and you will lose them. Choose because it will be your neighbor, your sister, your friend. And no one should be alone when they are grieving – Heartlinks ensures that every griever in our community has a place to go and someone who understands. Heartlinks’ services are provided at low or no cost based on client needs. Through the generosity and foresight of granting and philanthropic organizations, as well as fundraisers and individual donations, Please contact us for more information about how you can choose Heartlinks.
