Support Group List - Omaha

Support Groups In The Omaha/Council Bluffs Area For Additional Information Contact sandra.paasch@nmhs.org at (402) 354-3333

For Name of Group Adult Whose Family Member or Friend After Care Grief Support Group Has Died After Care Grief Support Group for Widows and widowers widows and only widowers

Adults

After Care Grief

Adults

6 Week Bereavement Support Group

Adults

Gentle Support Group

Adults

Gentle Support Group

Adults

Grief Support

Heal: Healping Each Other After Loss

Location Crown Point Retirement Center 2820 S 80th Street Lunch meeting at Venice Inn 6920 Pacific Street Omaha, NE The Center 714 S. Main Street Council Bluffs, IA

Sponsor Contact Heafey-HeafeyHoffman-Dworak-Cutler Sharon Zehnder Funeral Home 402-391-3900 Heafey-HeafeyHoffman-Dworak-Cutler Funeral Home Cutler-O'Neill-MeyerWoodring Funeral Chapel

Sharon Zehnder 402-391-3900

Rev. Dick Sladky @ 712-322-7779 Sandy @ Methodist 402354-3200; Jayne St. Andrews @ VNA 402-930Episcopal Church 4261; or Peggy @ 925 S. 84th St. Methodist, Alegent and Alegent 402-898Omaha, NE VNA Hospices 8150 Rosemary 72nd and Western, John A. Gentlemen Brownrigg @ 402Omaha, NE Mortuary 391-1664 14151 Pacific St. Omaha, NE John Rosemary A Gentleman John A. Gentlemen Brownrigg @ 402Mortuary Mortuary 391-1664 Braman Mortuary 6505 144th St. Jane Dugan @ Omaha, NE Braman Mortuary 402-720-6435 Mable Rose Estates Assisted Living 4609 Hilltop St. Papillion, NE Debi Pittock 40268133 Hillcrest Hospice Care 934-2282

Notes 2nd Sunday of each month @ 6PM Times may change so call to verify

Wednesdays @ 11:30 AM 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 4:30-6 PM

6 week sessions in the fall and spring. Preregistration required.

Please call for dates and times.

Wednesdays @ 2-3:15 pm. 6 week sessions.

Free.

Thursdays @ 6:30-8:15 PM. 6 week sessions.

Free.

Last Tuesday of each month from 1:30 PM-3PM

2nd & 4th Mondays 11:30 am - 1:30 pm. Free lunch.

Those grieving a loss

Cancer Center, Surviving Immanuel Hospital Bereavement: Life 6901 N. 72nd St. Continues Omaha, NE Alegent Health Living Faith Church 6724 S. 83rd Grief Share Avenue Omaha, www.griefhare.org NE Living Faith Church

Those grieving a loss (child care available)

Christ Community Church 404 S. Grief Share 108th Avenue Christ Community www.griefhare.org Omaha, NE Church

Please call to inquire if a Pastor Ken Ring group is currently in @ 402-592-0333 progress.

Rich and Ruthie Boettcher @ 402296-2671 (who Wednesdays @ 6:30-8 are hospice pm. Ongoing, join at any volunteers in NE time. $15.00 for book, call City) first.

Faith-Westwood United Methodist Grief Share Church 4814 Oaks www.griefhare.org Lane Omaha, NE St. Andrew's United Methodist Church 15050 W. Grief Share Maple Road www.griefhare.org Omaha, NE

Dianna Faust @ 402-431-8560 x 31

4-6 months after loss

Those grieving a loss

Those grieving a loss

Linda Dempsey, Certified Thanatologist @ 402-572-2933

Thursdays 6-7:30 pm, spring and fall closed group, 6 week series, $20 for journal/materials

Faith Westwood United Methodist Church and Holly Timberlake Thursdays @ 7-9 PM. St. Paul Lutheran @ 402-895-3394 Meets every other week.

Church x 1013 Seasonal, call.

St. Andrew's United Methodist Church

Those grieving a loss

Christ Centered Grief Support

Immanuel Lutheran Church 104 Galvin Road N, Bellevue, NE

Adults

Walking Through the Valley Grief Support Group

Crown Pointe Retirement Center Heafey-Heafey2820 S. 80th Street Hoffman-Dworak-Cutler Omaha, NE Funeral Home

Immanuel Lutheran Church

Call for schedule. Usually Monday evenings, 7-8:30, fall and winter Wednesdays @ 5-6:30 Diana Bussain, pm. 13 weeks. Call for Judy Porter and schedule, Sundays 5-6:30, Terri Lehigh 402- can join anytime, free (no 292-4138 book) Peggy Bonacci LCSW. Call Sharon Zehnder 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, @ 402-391-3900 10:11-30 AM

Adults

Coping Care and Share Widows Widow Group Beginning Experience Weekend Widows and widowers beginningexperienc only eofomaha.org Widowed, separated and divorced persons Widowed, Separated (open to all and divorced persons denominations) Support and socialization for widows and widowers (have quarterly newsletter of activities

Social group for post grievers Children ages 5-19 who are adjusting to death or divorce of a parent.

Omaha Chapter of Living Information for Today (LIFT) (also monthly social outings) THEOS (They Help Each Other Spiritually) This is a nondenominational group

Who Am I Now?

Family Life Office, Archdiocese of Omaha Call for location at www.archomaha.com Pat Seier @ 402- Seasonal 4-5 times per different churches 402-557-5514 557-5514 year, 6 week group 2808 Avenue E Jeri Hurd @ 712Council Bluffs, IA Church of the Brethren 322-8449 3rd Friday 10 AM Family Life Office, Archdiocese of Omaha www.archomaha.com Pat Seier @ 402402-558-3100 557-5514

Weekend group for those who have gone through the initial stages of grief.

Call for location $100 for the room.

2nd Tuesday of Each Family Life Office, month @ 7 PM. Other St. Gerald's Archdiocese of Omaha social events at various Catholic Church www.archomaha.com Pat Seier @ 402- times.

96th/Q Omaha, NE 402-558-3100 557-5514 www.wdsofomaha.com

Crosby-BurketSwanson Funeral Chapels and KahlerDolce Mortuary

Dave Dickbernd 402-339-3232

First Thursday of each month at 11:30 am-1:15 PM. Luncheon averages 45 people/110 on mailing list

Presbyterian Church of the Cross 1517 S. 114th St. Omaha, NE

Presbyeterian Church of the Cross

Dorothy Hadley @ 402-393-3052 Mary Janca @ 402-393-3052

2nd Monday of each month at 6 PM. More social activities than grief.

Wait one year.

3214 N. 60th St. Omaha, NE

Family Life Office, Diocese of Omaha www.archomaha.org

7-8:30 PM, 6 week coping program held in the Pat Seier @ 402- summer. Call for location.

557-5514 Open to all denominations.

Venice Inn 6920 Pacific St. Omaha, NE Lunch and short program

7 week program in the spring and fall. Tuesday 78:30 pm for children who Call for more info have experienced the loss 402-955-5661 of a sibling.

Childrewn who have lost a sibling

Living With Loss Too

Grieving children, teens (ages 4-19), and their parents; young adults 18-30 years old

Ted E. Bear Hollow Support Groups Ted E Bear Hollow Ted E Bear Hollow, A www.tedebearhollo 7811 Farnam Dr. Center for Grieving w.org Omaha, NE 68114 Children

Karen Galvin 402502-2773; Cathy Fox program Grieving children, teens director and their parents.

Teens

Ted E. Bear Hollow Support Groups Ted E Bear Hollow Ted E Bear Hollow, A www.tedebearhollo 7811 Farnam Dr. Center for Grieving w.org Omaha, NE 68114 Children

Karen Galvin 402502-2773; Cathy Fox program Retreat for grieving teens. director May & November

Grieving children & teens and their parents

Ted E. Bear Hollow Support Groups Ted E Bear Hollow Ted E Bear Hollow, A www.tedebearhollo 7811 Farnam Dr. Center for Grieving w.org Omaha, NE 68114 Children

Karen Galvin 402502-2773; Cathy Fox program Afternoon Day Camp in director the fall Lori Simpson, oncology social worker 402-3986267; Peggy Shepherd Call for details

Children of Parent with Cancer, age 5-12 (non bereavement) Just for Kids Families who have experienced loss of a baby during pregnancy, at birth or shortly after

Opem Arms

Relative over 18 who The has lost a child of any Compassionate age Friends

Children's Hosp

Bergan Mercy Bergan Mercy, Professional Center, Room C 2nd floor, 7500 Mercy Road Omaha, NE

Children's Hospital

Alegent Health

Call Pastoral Care 402-3438527 or Heather Myers 402-398Alegent Health 5564 402-571-4011 for New Cassel more info or Retirement Center tcfomaha.org 909 N. 90th St. mail@tcfomaha.o Auditorium Level 2 Compassionate Friends rg

Meets 1st Wednesday of every month at 7 pm.

Please call before attending.

1st Thursday of each month @ 7-9 PM, worldwide candle lighting 2nd Sunday in Dec

Relative over 18 who The has lost a child of any Compassionate age Friends (Spanish)

One World Community Health Center 4920 S. 30th St. Omaha, NE Compassionate Friends

Spanish meeting 3rd Wednesday of each month 7-9 PM

Relative over 18 who The has lost a child of any Compassionate age Friends

Tish's Restaurant 1115 S. 35th St. Council Bluffs, IA

3rd Tuesday of each month. Noon group lunch.

Miscarriage, Stillbirth or neonatal death Adults affected by babies who have been shaken (death or handicapped)

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Kelly Kleckner 712-326-4308 or tcfomaha.org mail@tcfomaha.o rg 402-571-4011 or tcfomaha.org mail@tcfomaha.o Compassionate Friends rg

Private Residence: 621 Arnold St. Council Bluffs, IA SHARE

Progressions www.nebraskasidsf Sites rotate. Call oundation.org for location

First Christian Church 66th & Dodge

Michelle Skillings & Angie Petersen 402-935-1911 Natalie Hadley 402-332-4429 nataliejhadley@y ahoo.com Fred Henninger 402-830-0437 sos.omaha@yah oo.com

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Laraine Peck 402- Ladies Lunch - Last 496-0309 or Saturday of every month lpeck@tconl.com @ 12:30 PM

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Laraine Peck 402496-0309 or lpeck@tconl.com 2nd Tuesday @ 7 PM

NE SIDS Foundation

Families that are Progressions victims of shaken baby www.nebraskasidsf Covers 93 counties syndrome oundation.org in NE Progressions

Loss due to suicide

SOS: Survivors of Suicide

Parents grieving child's suicide

POST (Parents of Suicide Together)

Parents grieving child's suicide

POST (Parents of Suicide Together)

Call before attending for time and location

Varies, call for information St. Andrews Episcopal Church 925 S. 84th St. Omaha, NE

Peggy Golden @ 712-322-4464 Lay facilitators Call for support

Monthly

Call for support; group meets as needed 3rd Tuesday @ 7:30 PM please call before attending

Pet Loss

Resources On Grief

Pet Loss Workshop

Humane Society 8929 Fort St Omaha, NE 68134 Humane Society

Kerri Ecklebe (Director of Education) 4447800 ext 214 Kecklebe@nehu manesociety.org

10:30-11:30 AM, 1st Saturday of month except holiday weekends when it's the following Saturday

Centering Corporation

Centering Corporation Toll Free (866)2187230 Maple Street 0101 Fax Omaha NE (402)553-0507

9-4, M-F

www.centering.org