National Organizations:
Actively Moving Forward®
https://healgrief.org/amf-app/
Actively Moving Forward® (AMF) provides communities for grieving individuals wanting to connect, be heard, and feel understood to like-minded individuals with a similar grief experience. An AMF App community member has access to facilitated virtual support groups, tools, resources, reading, videos, supportive quotes, community engagement via direct messaging, group chats, posts, and interactive comment boards monitored by bereavement care professionals all are at no-fee.
Alive Alone
https://www.alivealone.org/
Alive Alone is an organization for the education and charitable purposes to benefit bereaved parents, whose only child or all children are deceased, by providing a self-help network and publications to promote communication and healing, to assist in resolving their grief, and a means to reinvest their lives for a positive future.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
https://afsp.org/
Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.
Bereaved Parents of the USA
https://www.bereavedparentsusa.org/chapters/find-a-chapter/
A national non-profit self-help group that offers support, understanding, compassion and hope to bereaved parents grandparents or siblings struggling to rebuild their lives after the death of their children, grandchildren or siblings.
Camp Erin
https://elunanetwork.org/camps-programs/camp-erin/
Camp Erin is the largest national network of grief programs for bereaved children and teens.
Cancer Care
https://www.cancercare.org/support_groups
Connect with others in support groups for cancer patients, loved ones and people who have lost a loved one, led by oncology social workers.
Cancer Support Community
https://www.cancersupportcommunity.org/
Provides a variety of resources for grief for cancer patients and their family members.
Compassionate Friends
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/find-support/chapters/chapter-locator/
Provides support to families experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
Courageous Parents Network
https://courageousparentsnetwork.org
Shares the essential elements of understanding, coping, grieving and healing families who have a child suffering from serious illness.
C.J. First Candle
https://firstcandle.org
Is committed to the elimination of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) and preventable still births through education and research while providing support for grieving families who have suffered a loss.
The Dougy Center
https://www.dougy.org/
Provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families grieving a death can share their experiences.
Eluna
http://elunanetwork.org
Non-profit with a mission to support children and families impacted by grief or addiction.
GriefShare
https://www.griefshare.org/
There Are thousands of GriefShare grief recovery support groups meeting throughout the US, Canada, and in over 10 other countries.
HealGrief®
https://healgrief.org
HealGrief® is a social support network connecting grieving individuals to each other while providing the tools and resources to guide one’s journey with grief into a healthy post bereavement growth. Everything they do is inspired by their core belief that no one should ever grief alone!
Helping Parents Heal
https://www.helpingparentsheal.org
Is dedicated to assisting bereaved parents to become Shining Light Parents by providing support and resources to aid in the healing process and allowing for the open discussion of spiritual experiences and evidence for the afterlife, in a non-dogmatic way.
Let’s Talk Death
https://healgrief.org/lets-talk-death/
Let’s Talk Death are video/podcast recordings of conversations with various industry leaders, authors, and individuals who deeply understand grief. It’s time to take the taboo out of death, dying, and grief.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
https://www.madd.org
Dedicated to ending drunk driving, helping fight drugged driving, supporting the victims of these violent crimes, and preventing underage drinking.
MISS Foundation
https://missfoundation.org
Is dedicated to caring for families experiencing the death of a baby or child at any age and from any cause.
National Alliance for Grieving Children
https://childrengrieve.org/
Nonprofit provides online education, a national data base of children’s bereavement programs, and promotes national awareness to enhance public sensitivity to the hardships facing grieving children and teens.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
http://www.missingkids.org/
Helps find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization.
National Center for Victims of Crime
https://victimsofcrime.org/home
Advocates for stronger rights, protections, and services for crime victims; provides education, training, and evaluation; and serves as a trusted source of current information on victims’ issues.
National Organization of Murdered Children
https://www.pomc.com/
POMC provides on-going emotional support, education, prevention, advocacy, and awareness.
National Students of Actively Moving Forward (AMF) Support Network
https://healgrief.org/actively-moving-forward/
This nonprofit is dedicated to supporting young adults grieving the illness or death of a loved one.
New York Life Foundation
https://www.newyorklife.com/foundation
The New York Life Foundation supports programs that benefit young people, in the areas of educational enhancement and childhood bereavement resources.
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
https://www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org
Introduces remembrance photography to parents suffering from the loss of a baby with a free gift of professional portraiture.
Outward Bound for Grieving Teens
https://www.outwardbound.org/group-programs/grieving-teens/
This organization provides an opportunity for teens to experience specially crafted outdoor wilderness expeditions.
Parents of Murdered Children
http://www.pomc.com/index.html
To provide support and assistance to all survivors of homicide victims while working to create a world free of murder.
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
https://drugfree.org
Committed to helping families struggling with their son’s or daughter’s substance use by empowering families with information, support and guidance to get the help their loved one needs and deserves, while advocating for greater understanding and more effective programs to treat the disease of addiction.
Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Alliance
https://www.plida.org
Supports health care practitioners and parent advocates in their efforts to improve care for families who experience the death of a baby during pregnancy, birth, or infancy.
Return to Zero: Hope
https://rtzhope.org/
Return to Zero: HOPE is a non-profit organization engaging a global community of bereaved parents and their health providers to improve mental health outcomes, while also advancing pregnancy and infant loss awareness, education, and support.
Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support
http://nationalshare.org/
Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support is a community for anyone who experiences the tragic death of a baby. We serve parents, grandparents, siblings, and others in the family unit, as well as the professionals who care for grieving families. Share is a national organization with over 75 chapters in 29 states.
Shatterproof
https://www.shatterproof.org
Dedicated to ending the devastation addiction causes families.
Star Legacy Foundation
https://starlegacyfoundation.org
Increases awareness, supports research, promotes education, and encourage advocacy and family support regarding stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and neonatal death.
SUDC Foundation
>https://sudc.org
Is dedicated to increasing the awareness of sudden unexpected deaths in childhood, and funding crucial research to better understand and prevent these tragedies.
Suicidology
https://www.suicidology.org/suicide-survivors/suicide-loss-survivors
Provides books and resources for suicide loss survivors.
TAPS
https://www.taps.org/
The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors offers compassionate care to all those grieving the loss of a military loved one.
TEARS Foundation
http://thetearsfoundation.org
Helps to lift the financial burden from families who have lost a child by providing funds to assist with the cost of burial or cremation services, as well as offer parents comprehensive bereavement care in the form of grief support groups and peer companions.
Twinless Twins Support Group International
https://www.twinlesstwins.org/
This nonprofit provides a safe and compassionate community for bereaved twins to experience healing and understanding.
VictimsFirst
https://www.victimsfirst.com/
VictimsFirst works to educate and advocate for victims/survivors of mass casualty crime at the most horrific – and most vulnerable – times of their lives
WebHealing
https://webhealing.com/
The internet’s first interactive grief website, has served the bereaved on the net since 1995. It offers grief discussion boards where men and women can discuss issues related to grief and healing or browse recommended grief books.
Widowed Parent
https://widowedparent.org/
Widowed Parent Program offers for people who are grieving the loss of a spouse or partner while raising children at home.