No child should have to grieve alone. Nonprofit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Portland, ME Permit No. 467 from the heart 555 Forest Ave., Portland, ME 04101 NEWS FROM THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN Our 2015 Report to the Community Your gifts to the Center keep our services free for families. Please make the maximum gift you can this year, for any child or family who needs the Center. Mail: P.O. Box 1438, Portland, ME 04104 Online: cgcmaine.org/donate By phone: 207.775.5216 You help children and families recover hope when they need it most. By supporting the Center, you • Youth at the Center report a decrease • make an impact. You give grieving in feelings of loneliness and isolation. the Center is meeting their families’ children, teens, and families a safe grief-supportEighty-five percent needs. of parents tell us space to grieve. You make sure • Youth experience positive behavioral changes, such as better eating, sleeping, • Ninety percent of youth and adults they feel better. concentration, and motivation. say they feel comfortable at the Center and have positive relationships with their facilitators. Coming Up! 2015-16 Hoops for Hope, presented by General FundRacing in the 2016 TD Beach to Beacon 10K, “ Dynamics-Bath Iron Works Saturday, August 6, 2016 Sign up with the Maine Red Claws for visibility and Let us know by March that you want to run and raise a minimum of $500 for us. It’s easier than you #hoopsforhope #cgcfundracer season tickets that benefit the Center! Love Really Counts: Our Annual Auction and mightCommunity think! Conversations Dinner Gala, Friday, February 26, 2016 Join a discussion with community members who experienced loss and change when they left war- a ticket. #lovegala torn homelands and resettled locally in Maine. What a relief to find such kindness A sell-out event! Sponsor, donate, volunteer, or buy To be held in spring 2016. Swing “Fore” the Center: Paul Gray Memorial Golf and compassion at the Center. Tournament, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 Join leading Maine businesses sponsoring and MoreMore infoinfo isis available!available playing in this unique tournament. #paulgraygolf by callingCall the the Center Center at 207.775.5216 at 207.775.5216 or Email:emailing [email protected] [email protected] WHEN THERE IS SADNESS, FEAR, AND LONELINESS, or Check:checking cgcmaine.org cgcmaine.org “ YOU BRING LOVE. Stories of Hope support. resilience. healing. inside PLEASE JOIN US I CGCMAINE.ORG I 207.775.5216 2 Fall/Winter 2015 WELCOME OUR VOLUNTEERS About the Center for Grieving Children welcoming My boss sent me! For children and families confronting loss, change, The Heart of the Center and grief when someone close to them dies or is They cleaned, gardened, painted, seriously ill, the Center for Grieving Children is Last year, volunteers gave the Center more than 24,000 hours of their time. moved furniture, sorted supplies, an oasis of loving support. Free for families, and facilitated by trained volunteers, the Center’s age- • More than one hundred of them volunteered weekly to facilitate peer grief- Energetic employee volunteer support groups. Facilitators receive thirty hours of initial training and groupsdonated made items, great and thingsmore! happen and York counties. Center training, information, and ongoing in-service training. crisisspecific response peer support is available groups to meet schools, in Cumberland workplaces, throughout the year at our service sites in Sanford and Portland. They and other organizations. Founded in 1987, the • had fun, too, as they got to know Center today reaches more than 4,000 people and employee volunteer groups gardened, painted, cleaned, and more. the Center’s work and one another. annually, and depends on funding from individuals, Volunteers made our events successful. And at the Center, office vounteers businesses, foundations, and United Way. • Plus, we can’t thank enough the volunteers who served on our Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and Intercultural Advisory Council. Staff Advisory Council It’s what you do. Anne Lynch Dr. Christine Bennett, M.D. executive director Gail Cinelli Sara Asch Kathy Crispin Our 2015 Report to the Community shows what the Center accomplished Sue Calhoun Joe Delois Anne Fisher Michael Dubyak Susan Giambalvo Shawna Ohm Valerie Jones Gary Robinson Sandy Lovell Abdimajid Sharif duringThe Center’s the year. success But who is because really gotof you—the it done? You! donors, volunteers, and Lisa Morin Andy Stickney business sponsors at the heart of our free service to families and our work Will Stiles Erica Swan Jacob Watson throughout the community. ElyseMarie C. Sheffield Tipton 2015 United Way Day of Caring Janice Zurlo Sorcha Cribben Merrill Peter Prinz We proudly provide high-quality grief-support programs, gardened and cleaned. facilitator facilitator Board of Directors with demonstrated outcomes, for children and their families. Amanda V. Rand, Esq., Gretchen A. Johnson “Everyone’s voice is “There is no greater satisfaction than president: Spinnaker Trust Verrill Dana LLP heard here. And each one to watch the darkness leave someone’s Kimberly Simard, We support the southern Maine community—in schools, workplaces, and Tracy Keegan is strengthened by trust.” eyes and see them begin to shine again. vice president: L.L.Bean Unum agencies—through crisis response and loss- and grief-related information That is the power of working together, Mike Lane, treasurer: Mary Larkin IDEXX Laboratories and training. to help each other heal.” Joy Symon Fall, secretary: Paul Letalien Kennebunk Savings BakerDiversified Newman Communications Noyes We’re discovering new opportunities to support the loss and grief needs Amy Booth John Mosley CBRE|Boulos Property Mgmt Mosley Financial Group of elementary, middle, and high school students resettled locally from Gail Bruzgo Erin Ovalle war-torn countries. Omi’s Coffee and WMTW News 8 Bruzgo & Kremer LLC IDEXX cleaned rooms and Mark Pettingill Ron Cain Patrons Oxford Insurance donated items. Legacy Holding Co. And we’re working to increase awareness, use, and volunteerism that Patricia Rosi Santucci Doug Carr Wellness Connection of Maine will expand our work within York County, where we have offered on-site Carr Consulting Melissa Smith service for four years. Christopher Cimino WEX Inc. C.M. Cimino Inc. Edward Tumavicus, M.D. Julie Grosvenor, M.D. Maine Medical Center Family As it has from its founding days nearly thirty years ago, the Center relies Southern Maine Health Care Medicine Residency Program on people like you who believe no child should have to grieve alone. Peter F. Herzog Adam Walker Sanaa Abduljabbar Tricia Jamiol Ed Szalajeski Bernstein Shur Conroy-Tully Crawford Intercultural Advisory facilitator facilitator Katherine Hogan Funeral Homes Legacy Properties On behalf of those children, their families, and our shared community, Council member Sotheby’s International Realty Bill Hemmens “Where else can you sit in a room “My family is passionate (1945-98), founder thank you. Kevin M. Hunt “The Center made obvious changes with twenty people and get to about helping others on R.M. Davis in my son’s life. So I made my know them through their hearts?” their journey at the Center, decision to become part of the where we have received so Diversified Communications organized our supplies. CGCMAINE.ORG I 207.775.5216 family who can create smiles in much support.” Home: 555 Forest Ave., Portland, ME 04101 Please call to arrange a tour of the other children’s lives.” York County Site: 893 Main Street, Sanford, ME 04073 Center for your group, or a Center presentation at your workplace. share • follow • tweet Connect with the Center on these social networks Would you like to become involved with the Center? Learn more about volunteer roles and training Cover: Anne Lynch Children’s Awareness Day, the third Thursday of November. Executive Director at our monthly orientations in Portland and Sanford. Call 207.775.5216 or email [email protected]. 4 The “Hope Butterfly” symbolizes National Grieving 1 WELCOME OUR VOLUNTEERS About the Center for Grieving Children welcoming My boss sent me! For children and families confronting loss, change, The Heart of the Center and grief when someone close to them dies or is They cleaned, gardened, painted, seriously ill, the Center for Grieving Children is Last year, volunteers gave the Center more than 24,000 hours of their time. moved furniture, sorted supplies, an oasis of loving support. Free for families, and facilitated by trained volunteers, the Center’s age- • More than one hundred of them volunteered weekly to facilitate peer grief- Energetic employee volunteer support groups. Facilitators receive thirty hours of initial training and groupsdonated made items, great and thingsmore! happen and York counties. Center training, information, and ongoing in-service training. crisisspecific response peer support is available groups to meet schools, in Cumberland workplaces, throughout the year at our service sites in Sanford and Portland. They and other organizations. Founded in 1987, the • had fun, too, as they got to know Center today reaches more than 4,000 people and employee volunteer groups gardened, painted, cleaned, and more. the Center’s work and one another. annually, and depends on funding from individuals, Volunteers made our events successful. And at the Center, office vounteers businesses, foundations, and United Way. • Plus, we can’t thank enough the volunteers who served on our Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and Intercultural Advisory Council. Staff Advisory Council It’s what you do. Anne Lynch Dr. Christine Bennett, M.D. executive director Gail Cinelli Sara Asch Kathy Crispin Our 2015 Report to the Community shows what the Center accomplished Sue Calhoun Joe Delois Anne Fisher Michael Dubyak Susan Giambalvo Shawna Ohm Valerie Jones Gary Robinson Sandy Lovell Abdimajid Sharif duringThe Center’s the year. success But who is because really gotof you—the it done? You! donors, volunteers, and Lisa Morin Andy Stickney business sponsors at the heart of our free service to families and our work Will Stiles Erica Swan Jacob Watson throughout the community.