Grief and Loss services are provided through our Point of Hope Grief Counseling Center. Grief and Loss services volunteers participate in three ways:
Bereavement. Capital Hospice provides bereavement support for up to 13 months after a patient’s death. As a bereavement volunteer, you will provide an important link between a hospice patient’s family members and the Capital Hospice Bereavement staff.
You contact the family by phone, checking in to see how everyone is coping after the loved one’s death. Then you fill out a form to which Bereavement staff members refer in their ongoing work with the family.
Bereavement volunteers receive 10 hours of special training in addition to the standard Volunteer Orientation.
Point of Hope Weekend Camp. This special summer weekend is open to children and teens living in the metropolitan Washington area who have experienced a recent loss.
Participants hike, swim, play group games, and take part in supportive discussions that help build trust, self-esteem, and coping skills.
The camp is staffed entirely by volunteers, who supervise all activities and serve as Big Buddies to children and teens. As a Big Buddy, you offer support to a young person coping with grief.
If you'd like to learn more about our camp, click here. Please send us an email if you would like to receive a camp volunteer application package.
Administrative Volunteers
A volunteer is needed now to help with bereavement mailings once per week
on an on-going basis.
You can apply right now by downloading the application packet and returning the completed forms to us.
For more information please contact Volunteer Relations.
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