Resources outside of TDP…
Looking to connect with others who get it outside of The Dinner Party? We asked our community where they’ve turned for support. The following organizations feature regularly updated grief reads, as well as opportunities to connect online with peers who’ve experienced similar sources of loss.
There are also hundreds of local grief support agencies operating across the country, many of which offer a combination of online and offline support. Find grief support near you through The Dougy Center Database.
Other orgs we love
E-Motion Inc. uses the power of movement, community, and ritual to provide programming for grieving individuals. They also provide grief literacy training for organizations, communities and teams.
Reimagine hosts community-driven experiences that bring creativity and connection to communities around the world. Their goal is to help all people face adversity, loss, and mortality, and channel the hard parts of life into meaningful action and growth.
Option B is dedicated to helping you build resilience in the face of adversity—and giving you the tools to help your family, friends, and community build resilience too.
The Mourning Hope Grief Center companions children, adults, and families before and after a death loss. Mourning Hope provides grief support groups, counseling, community education, resources and referrals.
Kwillt is a virtual collaborative community where people come together to meet, share, and celebrate the lives of those they have lost.
Refuge in Grief is an online community and resource run by psychotherapist, writer, grief advocate, & communication expert, Megan Devine.
What’s Your Grief is a website run by two Baltimore-based mental health professionals with 20+ years of experience in grief and bereavement, that promotes grief education, exploration, and expression in both practical and creative ways.
Peer Support Space is a peer led-organization that aims to help folks feel less alone. They offer a multitude of digital communal gatherings, including daily virtual check-ins as well as activity-based gatherings such as cozy gaming and writing circles.
Nearness is a peer support program designed for deep connection through meaningful conversations. Each small pod of people will journey and explore together over the course of 10 weeks.
Peoplehood leads 60-minute guided group conversations with up to 24 people that we call Gathers. There’s music, breathwork, group sharing and 1:1 sharing about specific themes and prompts that are carefully curated for each group.
Grief Support Subreddit is a great place to share stories, ask questions or seek advice from others.
Resources for Specific Groups of Grievers
SIBLING LOSS
PARENT LOSS
FOR TEENS & COLLEGE-AGE ADULTS
Heal Grief: Actively Moving Forward
Helping Students Coping With Grief
DISABLED, CHRONICALLY ILL, AND/OR NEURODIVERSE GRIEVERS
Different Forms of Grief
Addiction Recovery
Live Another Day believes in equal access to life-saving mental health and substance use resources
Detox Local features abundant information including mental health and substance use resources specifically for the AAPI (American Asian and Pacific Islander) community
Breakups & Divorce
Let’s Mend has a compassionate and comprehensive heartbreak program using the most effective tools from psychology, mindfulness, coaching, nutrition, and science-backed research to help you get on the mend from a relational rupture.
Caregiving
The Caregiver Space provides a safe and open space—at no cost to you—where you can be real about what it’s like to care for someone dealing with a serious disability or illness.
My Caring Plan has a blog specifically for Caregivers, including how to take care of yourself through burnout, how to get paid, take a break, and get help.
Caregiving Resource Center massive information hub covering nearly 100 topics from what is Medicaid to coping with stress.
Life Threatening Diagnosis
Mettle Health helps patients and caregivers navigate a life-threatening diagnosis.
Imerman Angels provide personalized one-on-one peer mentoring for any cancer fighter, survivor, previvor, or caregiver from someone who has been there before.
Center for Cancer Counseling helps cancer patients express their thoughts and feelings without guilt or shame, manage overwhelming fears and concerns, and talk more openly with family, physicians, and caregivers.
Walk With Sally supports children impacted by cancer by providing care-centered one-to-one fellowships and additional programs and services to uplift the family unit and lessen the burden of cancer.
Disaster
Disaster Distress Helpline provides year-round disaster crisis counseling.
Estrangement
The Estranged Adult Child subreddit is a place to share stories, ask questions, or seek advice from others.
Together Estranged is a non-profit dedicated to connecting, supporting, and empowering Adult Estranged Children.
Pet Loss
Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement envisions a society in which on-going empathetic pet loss and grief support services are widely accepted and available. They offer both a virtual support group via video and a text-based chat room, as well as training for those interested in pet loss grief work.
Lap of Love is a network of veterinarians around the country. They offer various virtual support groups and courses, as well as 1:1 sessions with professional grief coaches.
Pet Loss Community was started by two doctors, looking to build a place for pet parents struggling with loss to find support. They offer virtual groups as well as 1:1 care for pet loss and anticipatory pet loss.
The Schwarzman Animal Medical Center is the world’s largest non-profit animal hospital. They offer virtual support for those who are navigating pet loss as well as a dedicated group solely focused on acute loss of a pet.
Mental Health Resources
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) offers virtual peer-led groups for people who are directly navigating or supporting others who are experiencing mental health conditions.
Crisis Resources
988 Suicide & Crisis Hotline: Call or text 988 or use the chat box at 988lifeline.org
Trans Lifeline: Call 877-565-8860 in the US or 877-330-6366 in Canada
The Trevor Project: Call 866-488-7386, text “START” to 678678, or chat online
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Helpline: Call 800-950-6264, text “helpline” to 62640, or chat online
NAMI Teen & Young Adult HelpLine: Call 1-800-950-6264, chat, text "Friend" to 62640, or email helpline@nami.org to connect
SAMHSA’s National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or text your 5-digit ZIP Code to 435748 (HELP4U)
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: Call 888-407-4515
Call Blackline: Call 1 (800) 604-5841
Warmline Directory by State: warmline.org
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