Compassionate Care is a group for all professionals who work with families who have experienced the death of a baby. This group meets once a quarter and provides an opportunity for networking and learning for providers who work in the pregnancy & infant loss field. This information will provide all professionals the awareness of resources that are available to families, which will allow grieving parents to have access to each resource they may need at the time of their loss.
Compassionate Care will meet once a quarter at Panera Bread in Lakewood. Each quarter, there will be a speaker from one of the organizations that is involved with pregnancy/infant loss. This group is free and we encourage you to spread the word to other providers and organizations within the community who deal in some way with pregnancy/infant loss to attend. The success of this group is dependent on your attendance and willingness to bring our resources together and provide newly bereaved parents the most compassionate care that they deserve.
Meetings are open to anyone who provides a service for parents dealing with pregnancy/infant loss, and those providers who work with or come in contact with bereaved families.
Panera Bread is located at:
5606 Lakewood Towne Center Drive, Lakewood, WA 98499
Thank you all so much. This means the world to me. I miss my son very much and wanted everything to be perfect for him and his short cherished life. The marker you gave me is the most perfect thing he could've gotten.
The TEARS Foundation, in partnership with Tacoma Kiwanis and Beloved Little Ones Ministry, are providing Moses baby-style baskets for families who wish to view their little one in something more "baby-ish" than a casket, prior to cremation. These are beautiful hand-decorated baskets which are available as a free gift to families. Once the baby has been viewed in the basket, the family has the choice of taking the basket home with them as a remembrance of their baby, or they may choose to have the basket cremated with the baby. The goal of this project is to offer one more choice for families when they make final arrangements for their child. For more information, email us.
The TEARS Foundation has collaborated with the Healthy Native Babies project and The SIDS Foundation of Washington to create over 48,000 informational materials for our Native Communities in the hopes of reducing the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in the Native population. Native American babies are 3 times more likely to die of SIDS than white babies and we are attempting to provide information to reduce this number.
Ways to reduce the risk of SIDS:
JESSE'S GRANT MARKER PROGRAM
The TEARS Foundation purchases gravemarkers in this special program, September of each year. For families who have lost an infant (20 weeks gestation up to one year old) and have not been able to purchase a marker for their child yet, TEARS will buy markers for these families. This is currently only available to families in the state of Washington. For more information about Jesse's Grant, contact our office at 253-200-0944.
