LOCAL SUPPORT GROUPS

The following grief counseling and support groups are available in our region. These organizations offer help to people who have experienced loss through death. Your funeral director can offer additional information at your request.

Mary’s Place – A Center for Grieving Children and Families

Meets at: Mary's Place, 6 Poquonock Avenue, Windsor
For information: call Lisa Peluso at 860-688-9621 or .

Specialties: Peer support groups for children ages 3 – 12 and teens 13 – 18, who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or significant person.

New Day Counseling Center 

Specialties: Support and therapy to families and individuals who have experienced a loss; and also to anyone who desires guidance in the areas of anxiety and panic attacks, depression, low self-worth, step-family and parenting issues, teen and adolescent counseling, vocation and life direction, and relationship difficulties.

Young Widow/Widowers

For information call: Lisa Peluso, 860-688-9621

Resource Center and Library 

Address: 6 Poquonock Avenue, Windsor
For information: call 860-688-9621 or Carmon Community Funeral Homes at 860-688-2200

Specialties: Resource materials dealing with dying, death, and bereavement. Free pamphlets, lending library for books and video selection that can be viewed on site.

Begin Again

Meets at: Mary's Place, 6 Poquonock Avenue, Windsor

For information: call Lisa Peluso at 860-688-9621. Specialties: Self-help support group for those who are grieving the death of a loved one. Facilitated by Lisa Peluso, RN and Elizabeth Fishe, MLS.

Hartford Visiting Nurses - Hartford, CT

Bereavement Coordinator: Patricia Snyder, 860-525-7001

McLean Home – Simsbury, CT

For information call: Margaret Crane, 860-658-3737

D’Esopo – Pratt Resource Center – Wethersfield, CT

For information call: Karen Carney, RN, MSW, 860-563-5677