Kate Atwood
A 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 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…
Read MoreCamp Good Mourning 2012
The buzz of laughter and joy permeated the damp air and wound its way through the trails, cabins and activity areas of Camp Twin Lakes this past weekend. This isn’t what you might expect from a camp that serves grieving children. But Camp Good Mourning is no ordinary camp. Ordinary is fishing with bait. But…
Read MoreSupporting Children Through Grief
On Saturday, June 2nd, the AJC published an article by family psychologist John Rosemond in response to a concerned mother’s inquiry about how to support her 11 year old son grieving the death of his father. http://www.seniorcorrespondent.com/articles/2012/05/30/guiding-children-through-grief.415334 Kate’s Club feels it is extremely important to offer a public response to the mom who drafted the…
Read MoreGrief Awareness Day
With the approval of House Resolution 1567, today was declared Grief Awareness Day in the State of Georgia. “When a family suffers a tragedy, we often don’t know what to say. It’s important for people to have the support they need through the grief process.” said House Rep. Elena Parent. Rep. Parent was instrumental in…
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