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"Friend of the Center"
You can help us serve low- and no-income families with your tax-deductible contribution.
We keep our administrative and overhead costs to a minimum making your contribution really count in the lives of those trying to heal from traumatic loss and grief. (more)
Volunteers Needed
We are always looking for individuals or groups to help with maintenance and projects around our "charming little house on Grand."
The Center is also adding to its volunteer base through helpers with fundraising events, clerical support, marketing, and fundraising. Please contact us with ways you can help.
A Truly Unique Resource
The Center for Grief provides a unique and critical service to the greater St. Paul and Minneapolis area and outlying regions of Minnesota. In operation since January, 1996, the Center for Grief has responded to the harsh reality of traumatic loss from homicide, suicide, accidental death, and multiple family losses.
Read this article for more about the unique resources offered by The Center For Grief and Transition.
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How We Can Help
The Center for Grief offers help and hope to individuals, families, children and groups through a variety of services that address these issues. The Center for Grief is a nonprofit organization dedicated to offering help and hope for the difficult periods we all experience.
Throughout life we are presented with a myriad of losses and the subsequent transitions that can accompany them. Grief is the natural response to these stressors in our lives. The Center offers organizational transition services and a wide array of workshops and trainings on subjects that include:
- Traumatic Loss
- Children and Grief
- Grief Group Facilitator Training
- Needs of People Living with Life-threatening Illness
- Grief and Special Days
- Caregiver Compassion Fatigue
The Center For Grief currently offers these programs. Please contact The Center for details about our programs.
| "Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it break. " -- William Shakespeare, MACBETH ACT IV, SCN 3 |
The Center is staffed by experienced pros with specialized education and training in the most current methods.
(meet the team)
Tom Ellis, MA
Licensed Marriage and
Family Therapist,
Executive Director, and Clinical Supervisor
Tom is a marriage and family therapist at the Center with a special focus on trauma. He is also a clinical supervisor, consultant, writer, trainer and critical incident de-briefer. (more)
Sarah Logan, MA
Program Director
Grief Therapist
Sarah provides therapy to individuals, families, groups and children. She has worked in school settings and with young mothers, teenagers and children. (more)
Gayle Sherman Crandell, MA, LPC
Development Director
Therapist and Trainer
Gayle Sherman Crandell is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Development Director at the Center for Grief. (more)