Grief Awareness
Children’s Grief Awareness Month: Studying Grief Through the Lifespan
by Lane Pease Hendricks, Director of Programs and Partnerships At Kate’s Club, we empower children, teens, and now young adults after the death of a parent, sibling, or caregiver. We may help children grieve, but ultimately we instill skills that will help them as adults. Grief is not an event, but a journey. Grief does…
Read MoreKeturah's Camp Good Mourning Story
Maybe it was the refreshing breeze, or the serenity I felt as I strolled through the camps pathway. Perhaps it was simply the joyous conversations coming from some of the campers and warm hugs and smiles from the buddies. Though I can’t pinpoint what it was specifically, I knew this combination made me feel right…
Read MoreA World Where it is Ok to Grieve
By: Kate Atwood [Today is National Children’s Grief Awareness Day. It comes on the heels of the tragic terrorist attacks around the world. And while a lot of us are grieving a sense of loss of our own freedom by these attacks, hundreds of families are experiencing the darkest days of grief as they mourn…
Read MoreGrieving Teens
By Lane Pease, Program Director Last week, Paris Jackson, Michael Jackson’s daughter, was rushed to the hospital in an apparent suicide attempt. An attorney for the family wrote, “Being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are. It is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you. Paris is physically fine…
Read MoreA Loss Is Now A Legacy
Kate’s Club is a place where children can have the space and opportunity to carry on the legacy of the loved one they have lost. This was the mission of Kate Atwood when she first quit her job to focus entirely on her newly founded club. Kate lost her mother to breast cancer when she…
Read MoreGiving Back
Kate’s Club has grown by leaps and bounds since the very first days of bowling trips and meeting at Barnes and Noble. Much of that growth has been made possible by the support of the many volunteers who believe in the mission of the club. One such person, Thomas Smith, was new to Atlanta and…
Read MoreHappy, Healing and Healthy
The death of a parent is always a traumatic experience for anyone who has had to live through it. Those emotions are only compounded when you have had to witness that death first hand. Ginger Florey-Powell was only 9 years old when she and her brother survived the car accident that took their mother. She…
Read MoreThose Who Understand
When Ashley Thomas lost her mother she, like Kate’s Club founder Kate Atwood, she was only 13 years old. Being a young teenager is challenging enough during the best of times but can become incredibly difficult when you are missing one of your parents. Unfortunately, at that time there were no programs available for…
Read MoreFaith
Losing a member of your family is always a trying time in a person’s life. Often times, we have reason to expect that someone we love is soon to pass while other times it seems that they have been taken without explanation, and often too soon. For 16 year old Faith that is exactly the…
Read MoreTragedy Turned to Light
In 2003 Andi Stein wife and mother to two sons, Alec and Adam, lost her husband to bacterial meningitis. Along with taking her husband’s life it also took from her children any sense of growing up as a normal kid. Alec felt out of place in school, knowing that he must be the only…
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