Compass Regional Hospice to host Hope and Healing for the Holidays workshop

CENTREVILLE — Compass Regional Hospice’s grief support staff will host Hope and Healing for the Holidays from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, December 1, 2018

Come for conversation and creative activities designed to help those grieving the loss of a loved one during the holiday season.

The workshop is open to anyone 18 and older. Space is limited. The program fee is $10, but no one will be turned away based on an inability to pay for services.

Hope and Healing for the Holidays will be led grief counselors from Compass Regional Hospice’s Hope and Healing Center. The workshop will begin with a light breakfast and will include art projects and opportunities to talk about how to remember loves ones while facing the grief that accompanies their memory.

The program also will include beverages and supervised child care will be available.

For more information or to register for Hope and Healing for the Holidays, contact Ann OConnor at aoconnor@compassregionalhospice.org, or Linda Turner at 443-262-4120 or lturner@compassregionalhospice.org. Learn more about the Hope and Healing Center grief support programs at www.compassregionalhospice.org/hopeandhealing.

The Hope and Healing Center is a collection of programs and services available for the families of patients who have died under hospice care, as well as members of the community who are grieving the death of a loved one.

Services available in Queen Anne’s, Kent and Caroline counties include individual and family grief counseling, grief support groups, school‐based grief counseling, a grief retreat summer camp called Camp New Dawn, and remembrance events and specialized workshops. Since grief support programs are offered free of charge, Compass Regional Hospice depends on donations to cover the cost of operating its grief support services.

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~ Compass Regional Hospice – Care on your terms

Compass Regional Hospice is a fully licensed, independent, community-based nonprofit organization certified by Medicare and the state of Maryland and accredited by the Joint Commission. Since 1985, Compass Regional Hospice has been dedicated to supporting people of all ages through the challenge of living with a life-limiting illness and learning to live following the death of a loved one. Today, the organization is a regional provider of hospice care and grief support in Queen Anne’s, Kent and Caroline counties. “Care on your terms” is the promise that guides staff and volunteers as they care for patients in private residences, nursing homes, assisted living facilities and the residential hospice centers in Centreville and Chestertown. Grief support services are offered to children, adults and families of patients who died under hospice care, as well as members of the community who are grieving the loss of a loved one, through The Hope and Healing Center. For more information about Compass Regional Hospice, visit compassregionalhospice.org.