Updated Toolkit
Counseling
- Child Guidance & Family Solutions
- They offer in-person and telehealth individual counseling services.
- Greenleaf Family Center
- They offer individual and family counseling.
- Maternal Depression Network
- The Maternal Depression Network is a collaboration of counseling providers and parenting support groups working to connect families to mental health resources and normalize postpartum depression. Communities thrive when families are living happy, healthy lives, and that often starts at home.
- For LGBTQ / Bayard Rustin Center of Support
- The Bayard Rustin Center of Support for LGBTQIA+ is there to offer support.
- Coleman Health Counseling Services
- They offer counseling for adults, adolescents, and children. They also offer group counseling which can create a sense of community.
- Wellness Grove Counseling
- The Wellness Grove offers individual counseling, couples counseling, and family counseling. They have in-person, and telehealth sessions.
Fetal Loss
- The GriefCare Place
- The GriefCare Place educates participants about grief and provides caring volunteers who walk alongside and are companions to people during the grieving/healing process.
- Love Akron Grief Recovery
- Love Akron conducts grief recovery sessions to help people who have experienced major loss.
- FIMR Summit County
- This site can direct you to resources and support after experiencing the loss of a pregnancy or infant.
- Akron Children's Grief Support
- Good Mourning grief support for children is a support group designed to help children and their parents understand and deal with feelings of grief.
- Akron Children's list of Grief Support Prgms
- This is a list of some support groups offered through Akron Children’s Hospital. They offer resources for bereaved parents support groups, family grief support groups, support with the funeral process, and some memorials.
- Simply Amazing Family Environment
- SAFE offers a miscarriage and infant loss support group weekly.
- Loss and Grief in Pregnancy Resources
- This site offers many resources, these range from infant and fetal loss support, abortion support, grief support for both mothers and fathers, LGBTQIA+ support, and more. Their helpline is 1.800.944.4773.
- Cornerstone of Hope Grief Services
- They offer an Early Pregnancy Loss Support Group at MetroHealth for birthing people and their partners who have experienced early pregnancy loss. They also offer Infant Loss support groups to parents who have experienced infant loss.
- Forever My Baby You'll Be
- Their mission is to offer comfort, support and information to grieving families who have experienced infant loss.
- Summa Health Grief Resources
- Summa Health has many resources and helpful articles regarding grief, helping children through grief, and on funerals, memorials, and related topics.
- Akron Children's Precious Parents Support Group
- Akron Children’s has a support group for parents, run by parents who have experienced a pregnancy or infant loss.
Momentos / Tokens
- Star Stories - Memorial Site
- This site is a place where you can share your and your babies story and read other peoples stories too.
- Stow Christmas Box Angel of Hope Children's Memorial
- This is a memorial in Stow, you can purchase a brick in remembrance of your baby. They hold two brick laying, remembrance ceremonies a year.
- Brooks' Bereavement Bears
- Brooks’ Bereavement Bears is a non-profit that provides comfort and support to women who have experienced pregnancy loss.
- Forget Me Not Baskets
- They provide families who have experienced a loss during pregnancy, birth, or soon after, with items of support, comfort, and remembrance.
- Akron Children's Remembrance Services
- Akron Children’s have remembrance services throughout the year.
Burial Coverage
- The Luca John Foundation
- This organization helps families who have lost an infant child (12 months or younger), by alleviating their emotional and financial suffering through providing support and compassion as well as assistance with funeral/burial expenses.