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About The Grief Club of Minnesota

The Grief Club of Minnesota offers multiple high quality, high compassion services to bereaved children, teens, young adults and their families (parents/caregivers), at no charge to the client, by professionally licensed mental health counselors. Our programs include individual counseling, family counseling, peer and family grief support groups, special events, crisis support and community education. Our place of healing is perfectly suited for special therapeutic events in nature and the outdoors. No other program in the state wraps around the entire family’s well-being in the same way, in one location. Our grief-focused, trauma-informed care supports everyone in the family unit, strengthening their performance, functionality and communication. Investing in our children and their families will help them build the resilience and coping skills needed to adjust to the death of a loved one and enable them to handle future challenges and make contributions toward building healthier and safer communities. Our Founders, Sarah Kroenke and Cara Mearns-Thompson, have dedicated their entire 50 years of collective professional experience serving as hospice social workers, school grief counselors, mental health crisis and trauma responders, local and national speakers on childhood and family bereavement, authors of grief support curriculum and private practice grief therapists. Sarah and Cara both experienced the death of significant members when they were kids. Therefore,recognizing and understanding the multifaceted emotions that are experienced when a family member dies and the importance of grieving and healing as a family in healthy ways. Since the launch of The Grief Club, the organization has emerged as a well respected leader in Minnesota specializing in grief care and mental health support, serving the entire family.