West Coast: Virtual Grief Support Groups - MyGriefAngels.org

PLEASE CALL OR MESSAGE THE FREE SUICIDE LINE AT 988 IMMEDIATELY,
or if you cannot reach them -call 911.
Their Website:
https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=oneboxp
or if you cannot reach them - call 911.

ONLY if you are not in any type of crisis, and have the approval of your mental health professional, please join us for any of the virtual peer-led grief support group meetings.

The support and information provided by all the volunteers in the peer-led virtual grief support groups, online chats - grief chat hours and other free online services are for general informational purposes and are not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment - always consult your own mental health professional prior to joining any peer-led grief support group, online grief chat community or any other peer-led grief support services..

Volunteers are not licensed therapists, counselors, or any other type of mental health professional - they are people grieving like yourself and volunteering their time to simply share their own grief journey and be present for others grieving or anticipating the death of a loved one.

Therapy, diagnosis of conditions, and prescription of treatments are NOT offered.

Always consult with a qualified mental health professional for any concerns about mental health or well-being. Please always consult your mental health professionals on whether free open virtual peer-led grief support groups are appropriate for you - as they are not appropriate for everyone.

All the chats, grief chat hours, and groups are OPEN free chats and groups and if now is the right time for you to participate, you are always welcome back when it might be.

GROUP IS LIMITED TO ONLY 15 PEOPLE EACH WEEK, SO PLEASE REGISTER EARLY AT THE LINK BELOW

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ApEH-S-0RSikDZCtibvE6w

Our virtual peerl-ed grief support meeting provides a safe space for anyone dealing with the pain of losing a loved one.

At the meetings, please always have your video on (no audio only participants) and if you would like to share or comment during the meetings, please always raise your zoom hand, and if you are not familiar with how to use the zoom hand feature, please view the video: https://youtu.be/eESg2cK69xQ

### Reaffirming Notice – Please Read

MyGriefAngels.org is a 100% volunteer-powered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All offerings—including our peer-led virtual grief support groups, the unsupervised online grief chat at Chat.MyGriefAngels.org, and free online grief courses at UGrief.com—are provided for peer support and educational purposes only and are not professional therapy, counseling, or medical care.

By participating, you acknowledge that involvement is voluntary and not a substitute for professional mental health services. If you are experiencing a crisis, please seek immediate professional assistance (in the U.S., call 911 or 988).

THE SUICIDE LINE AT 988 IMMEDIATELY.
The suicide line website is also provided below:
https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=onebox

The resources shared in this site are shared as secondary support services and organizations,

and NEVER a replacement for seeking IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY HELP from

the SUICIDE LINE at 988 - which is OPEN 24/7 and FREE to all or

if you cannot reach them - call 911.

ONLY IF YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING ANY SUICIDAL THOUGHTS;
including those of hurting yourself or others,
and
ONLY THEN,
please read, review, sign and share..

The "Grief Education" Petition
Video (55 Seconds):
https://youtu.be/DYXxIko-eng

"Help us ALL to be better prepared for the loss of a loved one, please take 1 minute to sign, share and post

the "Grief Education" petition
calling for making Grief Education a graduation requirement.

In over 500 virtual grief support groups conducted by the public non-profit MyGriefAngels.org since the start of the Covid pandemic and in online research from thousands grieving losses pre-covid, the non-profit found that the majority of group participants and survey respondents felt they were totally unprepared for the loss of their loved ones and the painful grief that followed.

The number #1 suggestion made by the majority of group participants and survey respondents was that:

"We need our schools
to do more
to prepare us
for what will be
one of the biggest challenges of our lives -
the loss of a loved one"

While our schools already provide education on subjects like sex education, financial education, and others - the need for a graduation requirement of a national course on "GRIEF and the Grieving Process" at a post-pandemic time when millions of families are dealing with the loss of loved ones is now critical.

The need has special urgency in our low income communities where majority of families lack the resources or access to grief support and mental health care professionals.

A GRIEF Education course will never take away the pain any of us or our family members will experience when facing the loss of a loved one, but as the group participants and survey respondents suggest - Grief Education will provide us with research and facts-based tools so we graduate with at the very least being knowledgeable of a part of our lives that we will ALL experience; regardless of our age, race, national origin, gender, gender identity, disability, education, income, religion, geographic location or political beliefs."

Change.org/GriefEducation

### Reaffirming Notice – Please Read

MyGriefAngels.org is a 100% volunteer-powered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All offerings—including our peer-led virtual grief support groups, the unsupervised online grief chat at Chat.MyGriefAngels.org, and free online grief courses at UGrief.com—are provided for peer support and educational purposes only and are not professional therapy, counseling, or medical care.

By participating, you acknowledge that involvement is voluntary and not a substitute for professional mental health services. If you are experiencing a crisis, please seek immediate professional assistance (in the U.S., call 911 or 988).

PLEASE CALL OR MESSAGE THE SUICIDE LINE AT 988 IMMEDIATELY.
The suicide line website is also provided below:
https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=onebox

EMERGENCY HELP is available from the SUICIDE LINE at 988 - which is OPEN 24/7 and FREE to all or if you cannot reach them - call 911.

ONLY if you are not in any type of crisis, and have the approval of your mental health professional, please join us for any of the virtual peer-led grief support group meetings.

The support and information provided by all the volunteers in the peer-led virtual grief support groups, online chats - grief chat hours and other free online services are for general informational purposes and are not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment - always consult your own mental health professional prior to joining any peer-led grief support group, online grief chat community or any other peer-led grief support services..

Volunteers are not licensed therapists, counselors, or any other type of mental health professional - they are people grieving like yourself and volunteering their time to simply share their own grief journey and be present for others grieving or anticipating the death of a loved one.

Therapy, diagnosis of conditions, and prescription of treatments are NOT offered.

Always consult with a qualified mental health professional for any concerns about mental health or well-being. Please always consult your mental health professionals on whether free open virtual peer-led grief support groups are appropriate for you - as they are not appropriate for everyone.

All the chats, grief chat hours, and groups are OPEN free chats and groups and if now is the right time for you to participate, you are always welcome back when it might be

ONLY IF YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING ANY SUICIDAL THOUGHTS;
including those of hurting yourself or others,
and ONLY THEN, please join us for:

A general relaxed peer-led virtual gathering for people grieving the
loss of a child or a sibling.

IMPORTANT:
NO Auditors, Student Observers or PROMOTERS of ANY Website, People, Services, Products are allowed. VIDEO must be on at all times during the meeting and No Phone/Audio Only Participants. Thank You.

If interested in participating in any of these group meetings,
please read next steps below:

1. People Confirmed for any of these groups:

All groups have people who pre-register at the zoom link below, but do not indicate their participation here, so the number of people signed up for the group meeting here is not the total number of people who may have already have signed up for it.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoce2vpz8tHde_P3yvdIKUWKdLcIpMW0XW

2. Pre-Register & Test Access PRIOR to Virtual Gathering via ZOOM VIDEO:
3. Once you pre-register, you will get a confirmation email with log in information
5. Quiet Setting/Low Visual Motion for Virtual Group Meeting:

• In order to better enjoy these meetings yourself and the other members of the group,please choose a quiet setting to join the meeting from prior to logging into the meeting. While in the meeting, please keep your speaker on mute and un-mute when you would like to share with the group.
• If your location setting, due to noise or too much visual motion, is too disturbing for the group leader and/or rest of the group, you will be asked to leave the group and rejoin when you are in a better setting.
• To share or comment in any of the group meetings, please raise your Zoom Hand and if you are not familiar with that zoom tool, please view the video: https://youtu.be/eESg2cK69xQ
• Thank You.

### Reaffirming Notice – Please Read

MyGriefAngels.org is a 100% volunteer-powered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All offerings—including our peer-led virtual grief support groups, the unsupervised online grief chat at Chat.MyGriefAngels.org, and free online grief courses at UGrief.com—are provided for peer support and educational purposes only and are not professional therapy, counseling, or medical care.

By participating, you acknowledge that involvement is voluntary and not a substitute for professional mental health services. If you are experiencing a crisis, please seek immediate professional assistance (in the U.S., call 911 or 988).

PLEASE CALL OR MESSAGE THE SUICIDE LINE AT 988 IMMEDIATELY.
The suicide line website is also provided below:
https://988lifeline.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=onebox

EMERGENCY HELP is available from the SUICIDE LINE at 988 - which is OPEN 24/7 and FREE to all or if you cannot reach them - call 911.

ONLY if you are not in any type of crisis, and have the approval of your mental health professional, please join us for any of the virtual peer-led grief support group meetings.

The support and information provided by all the volunteers in the peer-led virtual grief support groups, online chats - grief chat hours and other free online services are for general informational purposes and are not a substitute for professional mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment - always consult your own mental health professional prior to joining any peer-led grief support group, online grief chat community or any other peer-led grief support services..

Volunteers are not licensed therapists, counselors, or any other type of mental health professional - they are people grieving like yourself and volunteering their time to simply share their own grief journey and be present for others grieving or anticipating the death of a loved one.

Therapy, diagnosis of conditions, and prescription of treatments are NOT offered.

Always consult with a qualified mental health professional for any concerns about mental health or well-being. Please always consult your mental health professionals on whether free open virtual peer-led grief support groups are appropriate for you - as they are not appropriate for everyone.

All the chats, grief chat hours, and groups are OPEN free chats and groups and if now is the right time for you to participate, you are always welcome back when it might be

ONLY IF YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCING ANY SUICIDAL THOUGHTS;
including those of hurting yourself or others, and ONLY THEN,
please join us for:

A relaxed virtual gathering for and by people grieving the

LOSS of SIBLING, EXTENDED FAMILY OR FRIENDS.

IMPORTANT:
NO Auditors, Student Observers or PROMOTERS of ANY Website, People, Services, Products are allowed. VIDEO must be on at all times during the meeting and No Phone/Audio Only Participants. Thank You.

If interested in participating in any of these group meetings,

please read next steps below:

1. People Confirmed for any of these groups:

All groups have people who pre-register at the zoom linke below, but do not indicate their participation here, so the number of people signed up for the group meeting here is not the total number of people who may have already have signed up for it.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoce2vpz8tHde_P3yvdIKUWKdLcIpMW0XW

2. Pre-Register & Test Access PRIOR to Virtual Gathering via ZOOM VIDEO:
3. Once you pre-register, you will get a confirmation email with log in information
5. Quiet Setting/Low Visual Motion for Virtual Group Meeting:

• In order to better enjoy these meetings yourself and the other members of the group,please choose a quiet setting to join the meeting from prior to logging into the meeting. While in the meeting, please keep your speaker on mute and un-mute when you would like to share with the group.
• If your location setting, due to noise or too much visual motion, is too disturbing for the group leader and/or rest of the group, you will be asked to leave the group and rejoin when you are in a better setting.
• To share or comment during any of the groups meetings, please raise your zoom hand, and if you are not familiar with that zoom feature, review the video: https://youtu.be/eESg2cK69xQ

5. Thank you

### Reaffirming Notice – Please Read

MyGriefAngels.org is a 100% volunteer-powered 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All offerings—including our peer-led virtual grief support groups, the unsupervised online grief chat at Chat.MyGriefAngels.org, and free online grief courses at UGrief.com—are provided for peer support and educational purposes only and are not professional therapy, counseling, or medical care.

By participating, you acknowledge that involvement is voluntary and not a substitute for professional mental health services. If you are experiencing a crisis, please seek immediate professional assistance (in the U.S., call 911 or 988).