The Compassionate Friends is an international, non-profit, peer-support organization offering friendship, understanding, grief education, and hope for the future to all families who have experienced the death of a child, at any age, from any cause.

The primary purpose is to aid in the positive reconciliation of grief and foster the physical and emotional health of bereaved parents and their surviving children. As the bereaved reach out to other grievers, both are helped to heal. When bereaved parents feel alone and misunderstood in the world,

The Compassionate Friends community can provide understanding.

The secondary purpose is to provide information and education about bereaved parents and their surviving children and the grieving process to the community.

We try to help family, friends, employers, co-workers, and professionals in the community to be supportive.