Irish Hospice Basis (IHF) is launching its fifth annual Nationwide Grief Consciousness Week, happening from January 27 to February 2
All year long, IHF helps those that are bereaved via the Bereavement Help Line, an essential useful resource for individuals who are grieving and people supporting them, in addition to via their web site at bereaved.ie. IHF noticed an 18% enhance within the variety of calls to its Bereavement Help Line in November and December 2024, in comparison with the identical interval in 2023, underpinning why Nationwide Grief Consciousness Month is held in January.
Everybody experiences bereavement in some unspecified time in the future of their lives and IHF believes that help in grief needs to be accessible for all who want it. Central to the Nationwide Grief Consciousness Week marketing campaign is to empower each the bereaved and people round them to navigate this difficult a part of life with higher empathy and confidence.
Key occasions and initiatives throughout Nationwide Grief Consciousness Week:
- Free on-line occasion “Dwelling with Loss”: This occasion takes place on Thursday, January 30 at 7:00 pm and is open to anybody who has skilled a bereavement or needs to help a grieving little one or buddy. Register right here
- Lunch and Be taught occasion: This can be a free on-line webinar happening on Tuesday, January 28 at 12.30pm for workers and employers. Many individuals shall be working on the time they expertise a bereavement or a big life loss and require a compassionate and caring response. Having an understanding of grief will assist workers perceive their very own grieving expertise but in addition be extra conscious of how one can help others when grieving. Register right here.
- #NGAW: IHF encourages everybody to affix the dialog on-line utilizing #NGAW and #BeGriefAware to share their experiences, insights, and messages of help
- Sources and knowledge: A variety of sources and knowledge on grief and bereavement can be found on the IHF web site right here.
IHF is encouraging folks to inform their household, buddies, colleagues or group, in regards to the marketing campaign and to have open conversations about grief and bereavement.
Irish Hospice Basis launches Nationwide Grief Consciousness Week. Pictured in St Stephens Inexperienced are Amanda Roberts, Bereavement Growth Supervisor, Paula O’Reilly, CEO, and Orla Keegan, Director of Bereavement & Training. Photograph: Paul Sherwood
Amanda Roberts, Nationwide Bereavement Growth Supervisor at Irish Hospice Basis, mentioned:
“Because the nation’s main charity devoted to addressing dying, dying, and bereavement, Irish Hospice Basis strives to make sure that people going through finish of life or bereavement obtain the required care and help. Nationwide Grief Consciousness week is a good alternative to open the dialog round dying and bereavement in Eire, and Irish Hospice Basis, via its sources and providers, is right here to help folks to take action.”
Vivian Roche-Fahy, Bereavement Liaison Officer, Galway College Hospital Growth, mentioned:
“For these grieving, Nationwide Grief Consciousness Week brings a stage of normality and understanding to their often-confused feelings, isolation and loneliness, of their grief and the disruption to their regular life, as they course of this loss and dying of their important different, member of the family or buddy/neighbour. Such raised consciousness gives the grieving a supportive compassionate place in society, decreasing the taboo in society, round expressing grief.”
For full particulars of Nationwide Grief Consciousness Week occasions and marketing campaign sources, see:
For bereavement-specific info, please go to www.bereaved.ie
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#NGAW
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