Helping Grieving Children With Healing Hearts Workshop

DANBURY — Death is not the only time when people we are attached to are gone from our sight and we grieve their absence. When children are separated from a parent they may be left with feelings of loss and grief to manage on their own.

“Loss of a Parent Due to Incarceration, Deportation, Military Deployment, or Forced Separation” will be held February 25 from 3 to 4  pm at the Healing Hearts Center for Grieving Children & Families at 73 Stadley Rough Road. The workshop allows for discussion and education around the grief associated with separation that is not by our own choice.

The workshop will be facilitated by Kendall Palladino, MDiv, ACPE. He is director of bereavement and spiritual services for Regional Hospice and oversees the Healing Hearts Center for Grieving Children & Families.

Mr Palladino, who has been working in spiritual and bereavement care since 1996, has degrees from Harvard University and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and is pursuing a doctorate at Princeton University.

The Healing Hearts Center for Grieving Children & Families, a program of Regional Hospice, offers numerous support groups, workshops and programs to the public free of cost throughout the year.

For more information or to participate in the upcoming workshop, call Healing Hearts at 203-792-4422. To find out more about Regional Hospice, visit www.RegionalHospiceCT.org.