Who Are We?

We are a charity that provides relief to those are in need by reason of bereavement through death, family breakdown, separation, or divorce, through the provision of training and resources to deliver Grief Peer Support Programmes for children and teenagers.

Why Grief Support?

Bereavement affects a person’s emotional, spiritual, physical and mental health and well-being. When they don’t have anyone to talk through their feelings they will often be overwhelmed with a range of emotions.

Our Programmes

Growing Through programmes are peer support group curriculum’s that are biblically based. They are targeted, evidence-based programmes of intervention and prevention, to provide help for children to cope with their grief now, in the early stages, in order to prevent problems stemming from unresolved grief in their future.

Resources

During the upheaval of a deeply emotional time of loss in our lives, we can have a lot of questions or worries that we want to search out answers for. Growing Through may not provide all the answers to those questions but, we hope we can give you some guidance to help you navigate your journey of grief through our informational resources provided here.

Programmes

Growing Through programmes are peer support group curriculum’s that are biblically based. They are targeted, evidence-based programmes of intervention and prevention, to provide help for children to cope with their grief now, in the early stages, in order to prevent problems stemming from unresolved grief in their future.

Pot of Gold

Pot of gold is a thirteen-week Biblical peer support programme based on the story of Joseph and the ups and downs of his life (Genesis ch37-50). Its aim is to provide emotional support for children ages 6 – 11 years who have been bereaved though death or family breakdown. Our programme is not a counselling service, but rather a peer support group programme led by adult facilitators trained by us.

Rays of Light

An adolescent is an emerging adult. Adolescence, alone is a difficult stage in a person’s life. During this time they adolescent is changing physically, sexually, socially, spiritually and academically. They are also beginning to develop a sense of peraonal identity and becoming independent from family. This time of transition becomes almost unberable when a loss in the family is added to the many changes already occuring in the young person’s life.