Grief Counseling and Support

2009 RESOURCE GUIDE
Section 2. Local and State Resources: (Last updated: Monday, September 28, 2009 9:04 AM )
GRIEF COUNSELING AND SUPPORT
Agency Name & Address	Contact Information	Program Description
Cancer Support Community 185 Lundy Lane San Francisco, CA 94110	Tel: (415) 648-9400 TDD: N/A Fax: N/A	Offers support groups and information to those individuals living with cancer and their families. Support groups available in English, Spanish and Cantonese. Also offers a Family and Friends Grief Support Group.
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Center for Attitudinal Healing 33 Buchanan Sausalito, CA 94965	Tel: (415) 331-6161 TDD: N/A Fax: (415) 331-4545	Offers programs for children, youth and adults faced with life-threatening illness. Includes group for children living with a life-threatening illness, bereavement groups for children and teens who have lost a significant person and a parents group. Also offers a home and hospital visitation support service.
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Grupo AMPARO (Pregnancy Loss or Infant Death in Spanish) @ St. Luke’s Hospital 3555 Cesar Chavez St. San Francisco, CA 94110	Tel: (415) 764-0211 TDD: N/A Fax: N/A	Offers support group in Spanish for those who have experienced pregnancy loss or infant death.
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Hospice by the Bay 1540 Market St., Room 350 San Francisco, CA	Tel: (415) 626-5900 TDD: N/A Fax: N/A	Provides grief counseling and support groups.
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Seton Medical Center Bereavement Groups 1900 Sullivan Daly City, CA 94015	Tel: (650) 992-4000 TDD: N/A Fax: N/A	Offers eight 2-hour classes on grief and aspects of healing.
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Support after Neonatal Death (SAND) @ UCSF/Mt Zion Medical Ctr 1600 Divisadero St. San Francisco, CA 94115	Tel: (415) 522-7400 TDD: N/A Fax: N/A	Support group for parents who have lost a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, death during or after birth, or genetic abortion.
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Sutter Visiting Nurses (VNA) & Hospice 1625Van Ness, 4th Flr San Francisco, CA 94109	Tel: (415) 600-7530 TDD: Fax: (415) 600-0461	Provides care and support to terminally ill patients and their families in the patient’s own home. Also offers bereavement support groups of many kinds.
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The resource list above is for your information; it is not necessarily comprehensive and is not an endorsement of the services offered. If you find that any of the information is incorrect, if you would like to offer any feedback, or if you know of additional resources that may be helpful to include in the future, please let us know. You can call us at (415) 920-5040, e-mail us at info@supportforfamilies.org or write to us c/o Open Gate, 2601 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110. Thank you to all the agencies who completed our Request for Information form and thank you as well to community resource databases such as Helplink and the San Francisco Public Library Community Connection for lending valuable assistance.