Contact: Franklin James Cook, Director
Phone: (617) 398-0243
Email: franklin@unifiedcommunities.com
Website: http://sadod.org/
What they do: The goal of SADOD (Support After a Death by Overdose) is to increase the capacity and effectiveness of peer grief support in Massachusetts for people affected by a death from substance use (not only from overdose but also from suicide, homicide, accident, and medical complications due to drug and alcohol use).
SADOD provides resources, information, and assistance to people throughout Massachusetts who have been affected by the death of someone they care about from a substance-use-related cause. Our focus is on peer grief support for bereaved people, frontline care providers, and people in recovery or using.
Contact: Robyn Houston-Bean, Founder
Phone: 781-789-4604
Address: 541 Washington Street, Braintree, MA 02184
Email: robyn@thesunwillrise.org
Website: http://www.thesunwillrise.org/
TSWR offers peer grief support after a death due to substance use. The grief support is provided through monthly in person and/or online zoom meetings, including a virtual Men’s Only group, Multiple Loss group, Only Child Loss group, Partner/Spouse Loss group, Sibling Loss group, People In Recovery Loss group, LGBTQ+ group, Loss Due to Suicide (surrounding substance use) Loss group and a Grieving Grandparents group. The in person meetings currently being held are in Bridgewater, Charlestown, Quincy, Worcester & Weymouth Massachusetts and Portland Maine. They also host a private Facebook group and monthly in person events for grievers. TSWR helps find those who are suffering with the loss of someone they love from substance use disorder or overdose and provides them with the care, compassion, understanding and support that they need.
Contact: Michael Connelly, Partner - Boston Bullpen Project
Phone: 617-435-1188
Email: mp.connelly1@comcast.net
Website: haloinitiatives.org
Boston BullPen Project’s Healing After Loss to Overdose (HALO) Initiatives is a community-focused philanthropic program dedicated to supporting individuals who have lost a loved one to opioid overdose. Through HALO Initiatives, surviving family members receive support and financial assistance to address both immediate needs and long-term challenges related to health, healing, and community connection.
HALO Initiatives inaugural fund is the Family Overdose Support Fund (FOSF). A partnership between the Boston BullPen Project Inc., the City of Boston, and the Boston Public Health Commission.
If you are a Boston resident who has recently lost a family member to overdose within the last 2 years, you may be eligible for up to $5,000 in financial support to assist with the following:
Funeral Expenses: Funerals, burials, or cremation services for the person who died from overdose.
Behavioral Health Services: Therapy or support services by a licensed clinician for surviving family members.
Child Wellness Support: Childcare and enrichment costs (e.g., camps, after-school programs, extracurricular activities) for children impacted by a parent, guardian, or sibling’s fatal overdose.
Legal Fees: Custody or legal arrangements related to the death of your loved one.
Find out more/apply at haloinitiatives.org.
Location: 289 Elm Street Suite 105, Marlborough, MA 01752
Phone: (978) 375-4941
Email: info@teamsharinginc.org
Website: http://teamsharinginc.org
What they are: National organization of parents who have lost a child to Substance Use Disorder. "Through social networking, community activism, grief services and advocacy, TEAM SHARING provides support and friendship to grieving families while working to raise awareness of Substance Use Disorder and its impact on our community."
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Contact: Don Lipstein, Founder
Phone: (302) 690-0952
Email: don.lipstein@gmail.com
Website: http://imaginefamilyrecovery.net
What they do: Imagine Family Recovery supports individuals looking for grief support, who have loved ones suffering from an addiction; families who are in need of additional resources related to grief and/or addiction; military families who have lost a loved one to suicide/overdose; suicide loss survivors; overdose survivors; organizations focused on providing care and support for grief and substance use disorder.
Phone: (302) 492-7717
Address: 11819 N. Deerfield Drive, Dunlap, IL. 61614
Email: administrator@grasphelp.org
Website: http://grasphelp.org/community/
What they do: GRASP (Grief Recovery After A Substance Passing) was created to offer understanding, compassion, and support for those who have lost someone they love through addiction and overdose. "Too many timed we suffer not only the death of the person we love, but we become isolated in our grief. We feel, and too man times it is true, that no one understands our pain. But at GRASP, we do. We have suffered this same kind of loss and we have found the love and connection that only those who have lived this loss can give another. And while the pain of the loss will always be with us, we have found through GRASP that we don't have to walk the road that is our pain alone. We walk it together; hand in hand and heart to heart."