Resources for Immediately Following a Loss
The following are other resources we found helpful during those dreadful days following our loss. Please contribute to this list if possible. The first few days are so hard and we hope we can help by putting some useful resources here.
General Resources
Telephone Support
We know how hard grieving is and how important it is to have someone to talk to when you hit a low. If you feel like you are going to hurt yourself, please please call 911.
Below are a few hotlines we have found are available to provide support, most of them 24-7:
- Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
- Victim Services 24-hour Help Line 1-877-623-3435
- National Sudden and Unexpected Infant/Child Death Resource Center
- Central source of information on sudden infant death and on promoting healthy outcomes for infants from the prenatal period through the first year of life and beyond. For grief counseling, call 1-800-221-7437. Bilingual grief counseling (English and Spanish) is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Salvation Army
- For those in need of counseling or spiritual help please call (800) SAL-ARMY (725-2769)
- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc.
- TAPS has provided comfort and care, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through comprehensive services and programs including peer based emotional support, case work assistance, crisis intervention, and grief and trauma resources.1-800 959-8277
Immediate Need Websites
- AARP website: The Final Details
- Provides a list of the basic actions you will need to take during the first few months after the death of your loved one.
- Bereaved Parents of the USA
- BP/USA is a national non-profit self-help group that offers support, understanding, compassion and hope especially to the newly bereaved be they bereaved parents grandparents nor siblings struggling to rebuild their lives after the death of their children, grandchildren or siblings.
- Sudden Loss
- Resource for survivors during immediate moments of hearing of loss
- Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation
- The Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation (NILMDTS) administers a network of almost 6,000 volunteer photographers in the United States and twenty-five international countries. At a family's request, a NILMDTS Affiliated Photographer will come to your hospital or hospice location and conduct a sensitive and private portrait session. The portraits are then professionally retouched and presented to the families on an archival DVD or CD that can be used to print portraits of their cherished baby.
Please contact us with anything you found useful during the initial period of your loss.
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