Welcome
TearsCOPING - Caring for Other People IN Grief - is a bereavement support group whose mission is to companion others who have lost someone through death. COPING is intended to serve as a ‘lifeboat’ during one of life’s worst storms.

At some point in our lives, we all have experienced loss or know someone who has. It may have been a child, parent, brother or sister, a teacher, grandparent or friend. Those who have experienced loss know the pain and turmoil that accompanies grief.

Most of us have friends and family who support and care for us during the days and weeks immediately following a loss, but what about months, or even years later? The pain does not always lessen as time goes by.

Too often, we are expected to ‘get-over’ a loss and ‘move-on’ in a short period of time. In reality however, we are forever changed - riding a roller coaster of emotions - flooded with questions, memories and sometimes plagued with feelings of numbness, anger and guilt.

COPING can help. It is not about forgetting loved ones, nor about dwelling on grief. It’s about companionship, compassion and healing. Each volunteer involved in COPING genuinely cares for others because they too have suffered loss through death.
 

COPING Benefits

COPING is...

made up of a community of loving, sharing volunteers who have experienced grief in their own lives

founded on the mutual understanding and commitment to value the dignity of each participant

a safe and comfortable place for people to mourn

absolutely confidential

free of charge

Credibility exists at the core of COPING, based upon shared grief and mutual trust

 

Pancake Breakfast

2012 Annual COPING Fundraiser

Location: Centre Cafe Orangeville
Date: June 2nd 2012
Time: 9am - 12noon
Cost: $5.00

Available Groups

Adults - 10 week sessions
Women who have lost through Miscarriage/Stillborn - 7 week sessions
Widows: Locations in Orangeville & Erin - 7 week sessions
Teens - 7 week sessions