WillMar Center
WillMar Family Grief & Healing Center mission is to provide a safe, healing environment and compassionate support to children and teenagers grieving the death of a loved one or suffering through the trauma of living with a family member with a life-altering illness. WillMar Center also provides on-site crisis intervention for local schools, civic and faith groups, and businesses when tragedy strikes.
WillMar Family Grief & Healing Center:
- Facilitates professional and meaningful support groups for children and their parents, grandparents, guardians, and care-givers.
- Conducts expressive arts programs to encourage healthy self-expression and to strengthen the bereaved child.
- Focuses on community education addressing the needs of grieving children through WillMar Center's Lending Library, school outreach programs, and presentations for adults in the community.
- Relies entirely on the generosity of private donations from individuals, businesses and foundations. No fees are ever charged for children or teens to attend, and no one is ever turned away due to financial limitations. WillMar does not receive any government funding or insurance reimbursements.
WillMar's History:
Founded in July of 2000 by Nina Sagall Gorbach, a licensed marriage and family therapist, WillMar Family Grief and Healing Center, (formerly WillMar Center for Bereaved Children), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization designed to serve children and teenagers who have experienced the death of a loved one from illness, accident, suicide or homicide. WillMar was created to meet the growing needs of unserved bereaved children.
No fees are ever charged for children and teens to attend WillMar peer support groups, so no child is ever turned away. The Center’s programs rely on generous donations and grants from individuals, foundations, and service organizations. WillMar Family Grief & Healing Center does not receive any government funding or insurance reimbursements.
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