August 3, 2010 - We are pleased to announce the recipients of HFA's 2010 Grants to Support Grieving Adolescents. This year, we focused on finding programs specifically geared towards teenagers.
“HFA is pleased to be able to offer support to programs that are doing such vital work to support grieving young people,” said Amy Tucci, President and CEO of Hospice Foundation of America. “Grieving adolescents often have more challenges in finding support; many programs are geared either more to younger children or to older adults. The programs we funded show a true understanding of the needs of adolescents.” The grant recipients were selected by a panel of well-known experts in children’s bereavement, including Charles Corr, PhD and Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv.
They are:
- Hospice of Santa Cruz County in Scotts Valley, CA received $10,000 to support a new school-based outreach model intended to more effectively reach and serve Latino teens, using the H.U.G. (Health Understanding of Grief) Program. The Hospice of Santa Cruz County identified low participation of Latino teens in the teen grief groups conducted at their facility. After doing informal research, staff discovered some impediments teens have to attending, such as the lack of reliable transportation and after-school responsibilities. By meeting in the schools during the school day, the Hospice of Santa Cruz County aims to increase the involvement of Latino teens in their grief programs.
- Hospice of Wake County in Raleigh, NC received $1,000 to support Across the Continuum, a new after-school support program for young people with chronically ill parents. The first and only program of its kind in Wake County, this program will support 200 young people annually across the continuum of their parent’s disease—from seriously to terminally ill and finally to death.
- Mesilla Valley Hospice in Las Cruces, NM received $1,000 to support the provision of grief counseling services to the Hatch Valley Municipal School District’s middle and high schools. The grant will be used to help revise Mesilla Valley Hospice's curriculum and transform it into a multi-cultural/bilingual grief program which incorporates Mexican traditions into the grief work.
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