Samaritan Hosts Healing Hearts Support Group for Children and Families

To help South Jersey families who have lost a family member, Samaritan is hosting the in-person support group: Healing Hearts – A Space for Grieving Children and Families. This free, half-day session is dedicated to providing space for children and their parents or loved ones to jointly process grief and heal together. Led by professional bereavement specialists, the session includes breakfast and lunch, small group activities, and a gardening project for each family to take home.

About Samaritan:

Samaritan is a not-for-profit, independent organization locally founded in Moorestown, New Jersey in 1980 as one of the first hospices in the country. Samaritan is now one of the State’s leading providers of hospice care, palliative (comfort) medicine, at-home primary care, grief support and counseling, advanced illness care, education and advocacy. Samaritan serves people in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties who are coping with the stresses of aging, serious illness or grief wherever they call home. Samaritan also has two dedicated inpatient hospice centers in Voorhees and Mount Holly. Beyond the services covered by Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial insurance plans, Samaritan annually provides nearly $1M in donor-funded non-reimbursed care for patients and families in the South Jersey region. A thrift shop in Westmont also supports Samaritan services and programs. Samaritan is accredited by The Joint Commission; a member of the National Partnership for Hospice