Breaking the Silence on Grief: How Yorktown’s Growing With Grief Provides Support, Community, and Healing

When families experience the death of a loved one, it can lead to increased stress, financial barriers, and isolation and the impact of these complexities on the grief process must be addressed concurrently. As an accredited mental health agency, Yorktown is uniquely equipped to deliver specialized grief and bereavement therapy, support families in building community with other grieving families, and support clients in addressing complexities they are facing. A primary objective of Growing With Grief (GWG) is to remove the barriers to healthy grieving and provide a safe space and supportive environment for participants to communicate their grief.

Growing With Grief provides responsive and dynamic interventions supporting and engaging children, youth, young adults, and their families who have experienced the death of a sibling or caregiver. Growing With Grief uses integrated evidence-informed and evidence-based psycho-social interventions to support healing, growth, and self-expression. Additionally, the Growing With Grief Youth Advisory Council (YAC) offers their unique perspectives to inform GWG programming.

Some of our clients share their stories:

I was struggling to find grief support for my 8-year-old daughter when her father passed away in 2021, and it felt like an overwhelming, lonely journey. However, when we discovered the right place— Yorktown Family Services–it truly transformed our lives. Finding a community that understood our pain and shared similar struggles made us feel less alone in our grief journey. — Growing With Grief Client

Growing With Grief truly transformed our lives. Finding a community that understood our pain and shared similar struggles made us feel less alone in our grief journey. The counsellors at the wonderful Yorktown Family Services were indispensable in helping us work through our tough feelings and emotions. They provided us with unwavering support and endless patience, guiding us through the darkest moments of our lives. The family nights, movie nights, and outdoor group counselling had a profound impact on us. These events not only brought us closer as a family, they helped us connect with others who were experiencing the same kind of pain and loss. We are immensely grateful for the healing and solace Growing With Grief has brought to our lives. — Growing With Grief Client