The death of a parent, sibling or significant other is often a very painful experience. For a child or teen, it can be particularly difficult because adults tend to protect them from such events.
The Children’s Bereavement Art Group, managed by Sutter Care at Home in partnership with Sutter Roseville Medical Center and Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, helps children and teens learn to cope with the death of a loved one.
About the Program
The Children’s Bereavement Art Group encourages children to express their grief through creative outlets. Children express what they are thinking and feeling through a variety of art activities, including drawing and painting. The artwork becomes a meaningful story about their loss experiences.
Grieving children also find support from their peers whose loved ones have died. Children and teens are placed in groups according to age, development and the type of loss. The groups meet every other week over a period of five months, and each group is facilitated by an art therapist with an extensive background in childhood grief.
Registration
Children, ages four through seventeen, who have experienced the death of a significant person within the last year of the referral date, are eligible for participation. To register, families may call:
Sutter Roseville Medical Center
(916) 787-7174
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento
(916) 887-5275
Help Support This Program
Thanks to the generous donations from community members and organizations this special service is available to grieving children in the greater Sacramento area at no cost to the family.
The children referred have experienced the death of a loved one from illness, accident, violence or
suicide. Your support and donations can help us make a difference for one of these children.
To make a donation to support the Children’s Bereavement Art Group, please visit sutterhealth.org/scah/giving
Or contact:
Sutter Care at Home Philanthropy
(877) 342-2141
scah.gifts@sutterhealth.org
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