The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization that offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and there are no membership dues or fees.

However, we do need your help.

How You Can Help

• There are several ways that you can help our chapter.
• Sponsor a newsletter in memory of your child. Help defray the costs of printing and mailing the newsletter to remember your child in the months of their birth or death.
• Help with setting up chairs or clean up at the monthly meeting just show up a half hour earlier than a meeting.
• Assist with special events (picnic, candle lighting ceremony)
• Assist with greeting at the monthly meeting. A friendly face at the door means so much.
• Sponsor our new phone line in memory of your child. Help defray the costs of having a dedicated telephone line to remember your child in the months of their birth or death.
• Assist with the library – our chapter has a library of books on grief, healing, and inspirational titles. We need help with monitoring check-out and return of the books by chapter members.
• Birthday Table – set up and “host” the birthday table during the month of your child’s birth. Bring snacks and drinks to share.
• If you are further along in your grief, consider taking an active role in helping the newly bereaved at the meetings. We need the help that you are uniquely equipped to give – you have been there.
• Assist with telephone calls to the newly bereaved
• Assist with mailing letters or cards
• Financially – Since we charge no dues or other membership fees, your love gift assists in helping us to pay for copying, office supplies, printing, postage, books, brochures, and literature.
  

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Love Gifts

Our Privacy Policy

According to the principles of The Compassionate Friends, “We treat what is said at meetings as confidential and what we learn about each other as privileged information.”Out of respect to this principle and to protect the privacy of our members, The Heart of Florida (Longwood) Chapter of TCF abides by the following guidelines:

We do not post personal information such as Telephone Friends, love gifts or "Our Children Remembered" on our web site. Our mailing list (e-mail and regular mail) is used for TCF purposes only and is never released or sold to any outside agency or person.

We do incur costs to run our local Chapter, and we do need your help. Donations or "Love Gifts" can be made in memory of a loved one and will be mentioned in the next printed newsletter. (Please note your name and your child's name so we know who to credit in the newsletter. In addition, please understand because of our privacy policy we will not publish this info in our online newsletter.). Love Gifts can be mailed to this address: P.O. Box 916482, Longwood Fl. 32791-6482 or left in the basket at the monthly meetings. Please help when you can, everything is appreciated.

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Newsletter or Phone Sponsorship

Sponsor a newsletter or our new phone in memory of your child. Help defray the costs of printing and mailing the newsletter or having a dedicated telephone line to remember your child in the months of their birth or death.

If you would be interested in sponsoring a newsletter please approach a Chapter leader or facilitator to get information on how to sponsor a newsletter.

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Chapter Positions

* The secret of TCF's success is simple: As seasoned grievers reach out to the newly bereaved, energy that has been directed inward begins to flow outward and both are helped to heal.

As we become seasoned grievers it becomes important to remembers those that were there to prop us up, hug, and hold us in our most difficult time. It becomes our duty to back these people up, and relieve them if necessary. Its important to be there for the new families that surely will continue to come through our door.

So it becomes important that we fill vacant positions on our Board of Directors and Steering committee. To give a voice for the direction and operation of our chapter in fullfilling our TCF mission.

If you would be interested in filling a chapter position please approach a Chapter leader or facilitator to get information. It is important to note that some may not be allowed to participate early on in the grief process. Simply because it would not be fair to burden you with such responsibilities at a time when you should be receiving care instead of giving it.

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