About Us

The Compassionate Friends is a non-profit organization offering friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings. The purposes are to promote healing and to aid parents in the positive resolution of the grief experience upon the death of their child, and to foster the physical and emotional health of bereaved parents and siblings. The Flint-area chapter was founded in April 1986

Grief Support after the death of a child

The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive. The secret of TCF's success is simple: As seasoned grievers reach out to the newly bereaved, energy that has been directed inward begins to flow outward and both are helped to heal. The vision of The Compassionate Friends is that everyone who needs us will find us and everyone who finds us will be helped. Going to the first meeting is the hardest, but you have nothing to lose and everything to gain! Try not to judge your first meeting as to whether or not The Compassionate Friends will work for you. At the next meeting, you may find just the right person or just the right words said that will help your grief work.