Bereaved Parents USA Coeur d'Alene Chapter

Mission Statement:

A mutual assistance self-help organization offering friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, siblings and grandparents, following the death of a child.

Contact Info:

• PO Box 3504, Coeur d’Alene Idaho 83816
• phone: 208-773-5684
• cdabp@aol.com
• http://www.nidbereavedparents.org

Our primary purpose is to assist families in the positive resolution of the grief experienced upon the death of a child at any age and to support their efforts to achieve physical and emotional health.

Our secondary purpose is to provide information and education about bereaved parents and their families. The objective is to help those in the community, including family, friends, employers, co-workers and professionals, to be supportive.

• Our Coeur d’Alene Chapter has a 24 hour phone number listed in local phone and reference books.
• We compile and mail 555 monthly newsletters sharing ideas, compassion, insight and hope to bereaved families and professionals.
• We send cards to families in the month of the child’s birthday and death day.
• We hold monthly support meetings on the third Thursday of each month at St. Pius Church in classroom #3 at 7PM.
• We have a lending library of books, audio and video tapes.
• We serve the 5 Northern Counties of Idaho with approximately 70 % provided in Kootenai County.

We hold 2 memorials each year:

• Balloon Release Memorial with a potluck in August.
• Candlelighting Ceremony on the 2nd Sunday of December which is National Children Remembered Day.

Dear Friends,

I would like to thank you all for my monthly newsletter. I look forward to receiving it, it means so much to me. I can read and re-read it for the comfort of not being alone in my sorrow. It means so much to read my sons names in the list of all children gone before and after mine. I feel by being able to see their names that they aren’t forgotten that is my fear – that they may be forgotten.

The newsletter lets me share my sorrow and my fears. My loss is known by the names of other parents. It helps knowing I am not alone through these friends.

Loyally,
M.W.

Dear Friends,

This being September, I want to write you a thank you letter. Our daughter, Carol, was killed in an auto accident in September so this is a hard month for me. When your paper comes I read every word of it. Please keep it coming.

…You are helping people that are going through the hardest thing in life; losing a child. Thank you for the wonderful work you are doing.

God Bless all of you,
E.A.

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