COPE June 2019 Newsletter

20 years helping parents and families living with the loss of a child

COPE Newsletter

June 2019

The Next Level of Healing is Helping

In this Newsletter

President's Message

Parent Column

Healing Tips

COPE's Camp Erin NYC ®

Calendar of Events

June Passings and Birthdays

COPE Supporters

Quick Links

COPE Book Corner

Parent & Sibling Writings

Camp Erin NYC

COPE Labyrinth

Amazon Smile Link

Email Us

President's Message

from Sandra R. Wolkoff, PhD., LCSW-R

Grief and Gratitude

I have spoken to parents about their kids since my first job right out of college where I worked as a counselor in a drug treatment program with teens and their parents. This was the early 70’s and I was only a few years older than many of my clients. I was wearing bell bottom jeans with my favorite macramé braided belt laced through the hip hugging straps and long hair to my hips. I have since thought that just seeing someone who looked like me and had survived the 60’s was a relief to many of the parents. Maybe they were assured that their own kids might survive their adolescent turmoil as well.

To read the full President's Message click here .

Thank you to everyone who helped make

COPE Foundation’s

20th Anniversary Annual Golf Outing

our most successful yet.

Click here to see photos from the event which was held

Monday, May 20th at Glen Head Country Club.

PARENT COLUMN

Birthdays are very hard. My son would have been celebrating his 33rd this June 29th.

It is very hard still to know he will not be here with his jokes and that infectious smile that just radiate light on any room he enters.

I LOVE YOU ANDRE GRAYDON - STILL MY BABY BOY!!!

-Stephanie Draine

HEALING TIPS

Gardening and Grief

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow"

- Audrey Hepburn

Gardening can reduce the feelings of grief. Some of the benefits of gardening include improved physical health, emotional well being as well as increased social interaction. These are all positive ways to walk along the grief journey.

To read more clic k here .

COPE'S CAMP ERIN® NYC

It’s almost officially summer!

No school, no work, fun in the sun - a child’s perspective, of course.

We are busy planning, interviewing campers and organizing staff. Must mean Camp Erin NYC is around the corner.

Very excited for our 8th summer. Some new ideas in hopes of making our campers experience even better.

As always, should you know a family who could benefit from a weekend of healing and hope, please have them contact me or pass along my information:

Ann Fuchs, Camp Erin NYC Director

E mail: afuchs@copefoundation.org

Phone: 914-552-6919

We still have spaces available.

Many thanks and Happy Summer! Thumbs up - all good!

Ann

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COPE partners with Eluna to offer Camp Erin NYC, a FREE, weekend long grief support camp designed to help children and teenagers ages 6 – 17, who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or someone close to them. This year, Camp Erin NYC will be from August 23 through 25, 2019.

For more information on Camp Erin NYC click here .

CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

Click here for a full calendar of events

June Passings & Birthdays

Please click here to help us honor and remember the June passings and birthdays of loved ones who were taken from us before their time (go to section titled June 2019).

COPE Supporters

We thank our generous supporters for making donations to COPE during the month of May 2019.

Please click here to view donations made including those made in honor and memory of loved ones (go to Donations May 2019).

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