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The Healing Center 

Description

The Healing Center provides comprehensive grief support to adults, children and families in the greater Seattle area. Our community offers support groups, individual counseling, an informal social-and peer-support network, and outreach through schools and other partner agencies.

Mission Statement
We offer a safe, loving place that honors grief, helping you to move through it and heal. 

We provide support and guidance on the grieving & healing process; offer programs & activities where you can benefit from the community of people served by The Healing Center; where you decide when to come, how to grieve, and how often you decide to receive services.
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The Healing Center
6409 1/2 Roosevelt Way NE 
Seattle 
WA
98115-6617 
(206) 523-1206 

Rebecca Stodola Soukakos 
Executive Director 

Programs

The Healing Center Programs

In-house, The Healing Center provides support groups for pre-school through adult age groups, individual counseling, special services for survivors of suicide, summer day-camp activities, retreats, a holiday party, a Ceremony of Remembrance, monthly potlucks, and an environment of safety and encouragement.

In the community, The Healing Center has established partnerships with other agencies and is part of a broad referral network that addresses loss, grief and related challenges. In local schools we conduct support groups, staff training and presentations about loss, grief and healing, which also helps reach more families in need of services.

Recent Successes and Current Challenges

In 2011, we began a Men's Grief Support group spefically for widowers, to compliment our co-ed Early and Transition Groups.

In 2012, we began a Survivors of Suicide group, the only one in King County exclusive to widows and widowers. 

Donors are welcome to sponsor a grieving family in need of counseling and support, underwrite a school program, or provide general support to The Healing Center.

Evaluation


The Healing Center provides long-term comprehensive support to younger widowed adults and their children, and other individuals who have experienced the death of a loved one.

Proven Success
The Healing Center provides services free of charge or on a sliding scale, and no one is turned away due to inability to pay. They are serving more grieving individuals and families each year.

Use of Best Practices
Many teens who have experienced the death of a family member cannot or prefer not to join an in-house teen support group because of transportation and scheduling challenges, along with reticence characteristic of this age group. They have established a secure social-networking based format for regular online meetings facilitated by their staff as well as a bulletin-board style forum available any time. They hope this new online model provides an opportunity to extend their reach.

Collaboration
They are a member of the Kids' Grief Network of Western Washington; they have a strong referral network with area hospitals, hospices, schools and other agencies. They receive training, advice and mentoring from The Dougy Center, an internationally known grief-support facility in Portland, OR.

Financial Health
They have a committed donor base and have broadened and strengthened their funding base in the past few years. They established a new fundraising walk in 2009 and exceeded their financial goal for the event. In 2010 they were selected as a partner organization for the Detlef Shrempf Foundation Charity Auction. They were a recipient of the Taproot Foundation for a database upgrade project. They are focused on growing thoughtfully and continuing their associations in the community to respond to the need.

Their model is built on comprehensive, long-term, community-style programming and their visibility in the community is rising. Their Founding Executive Director stepped aside in September to focus on program development, training, and advising organizations that want to implement a Healing Center style grief support model. The Board hired a new Executive Director.

Grant History with The Seattle Foundation:

Grants Awarded through The Seattle Foundation Grantmaking Program:

DateAmountPurpose
3/10/2008 $10,000.00support general operating expenses.
9/22/2005 $5,000.00support general operating expenses.

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