OLIVIAS HOUSE
826 South George Street, York, PA 17403 www.oliviashouse.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Olivia's House is an organization of care-giving professionals and volunteers committed to supporting grieving children. It's purpose is to facilitate healing through grief and loss education.

Olivia's House facilitates healing through grief and loss education by providing no-cost services such as: educational peer support programs for grieving children and their caregivers, individual and family grief counseling referrals to qualified professionals, grief education programs for the schools and community, pre-death support services, pet loss support services, social activities for program alumni, and a lending library containing resources on grief and loss. In 2019, 34 weeks of educational and support programs were held. A total of 128 participants were served through our programs: Hearts Can Heal,Little Ones, and the Workshop Series. For our family-based programs, Hearts Can Heal and Little Ones, we require families to attend all sessions of the either eight or four week programs (respectively). In 2019 we introduced our newest program, The Workshop Series, to educate adults in the community about specific grief related topics. This did not require repeat attendance, and were able to serve those who could not commit to the entirety of the family based groups. In addition, the WINGS program provides social activities for alumni of the grief and loss programs and their families. Our WINGS social program served approximately 194 participants, and five WINGS activities were held throughout 2019.After many years of providing educational peer support programs designed to guide children in a healthy expression of their anger and pain, Olivia's House found that without assessment for trauma and appropriate adjunctive therapy referrals, children often failed to use positive coping skills. Trauma referrals coupled with the educational peer support programs has proven to be more than effective. In order to make these assessments, Olivia's House allows plenty of time to tailor our support to the specific needs of the family. When a parent contacts us, we meet with them for an intake session, lasting at least one hour, in order to provide the family with bereavement education, address concerns related to the children, distribute one of our many tangible resources, and/or provide a referral to one of our adjunct therapists.Olivia's House provides referral services to community and professional counseling organizations when necessary. When clients' needs are purely of a bereavement nature, the clinical team at Olivia's House has begun offering limited individual support "in-house". In 2019, over 556 referrals were made and, in an effort to help off-set individual costs to the families, Olivia's House provided financial assistance to 30 participants. In addition, Olivia's House continues to grow its grief and loss lending library. New resources are added regularly as a result of the communities' continual use. In 2019, 369 different grief related resources, journals and workbooks were utilized. Olivia's House continues to be a "mentor center," providing guidance and wisdom for communities wishing to develop their own children's grief programming.

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