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The Bereavement Center, Scarsdale, NY

The Bereavement Center, 670 White Plains Road, Suite 213, Scarsdale, NY 10583.  The Bereavement Center, Scarsdale, NY, offers individual sessions and groups for those who have lost a loved one.   Individual sessions and groups are with a social worker or psychologist.  An adult group for parents who have lost a child meets twice per month, the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, throughout the year.  A group for adults who have lost a spouse, a group for adults who have lost a parent, and a group for adults who have lost a sibling are each run twice per year, Fall and Spring, for 8 weeks.  Individual sessions are Monday through Friday; day and evening hours are available.  The fee for individual sessions is $70 per session.  Groups have a suggested donation.  The Bereavement Center also has a school outreach program.  The Bereavement Center will go into a school and train staff and faculty, particularly school social workers, psychologists, and guidance counselors, in how to start a bereavement group in one’s school and what curriculum to use for the group.  Upon request, the Bereavement Center will have a professional co-lead a group with a school faculty member for 8-10 weeks; there is a fee for this service.   The Bereavement Center participates each year in the Guidance Expo, a gathering of elementary, middle school, and high school guidance counselors, and leads training workshops for the guidance counselors on child-based grief and loss.  The Bereavement Center is located in a professional office building that is part of a larger shopping plaza, with plenty of available parking.  They offer additional bereavement programs at other locations in Westchester.  Please call (914) 961-2818, and ask for the Bereavement Center, or email info@thebereavementcenter.org.  For a detailed description of their programs, please see their website at http://www.thebereavementcenter.org.

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