We are pleased to include bereaved persons in the AfterLoss Grief Recovery Program. AfterLoss Grief Recovery Program is a caring, easy-to-understand, step-by-step program of grief recovery. The AfterLoss Program includes a monthly 8-page HelpLetter which gently guides the bereaved, step-by-step, through the grieving process toward recovery. AfterLoss teaches that grief is a process, not an event. Specific questions about lonliness or fear, guilt or anger and other topics are answered, bringing comfort, encouragement and most of all, valuable information and insights about grief. Approximately a month after a loss, we send the first issue of the AfterLoss helpletter to the home of the surviving family. Then, for the next five months, we send an issue in the recovery series. The recipient then has the option of receiving another six Afterloss helpletters from the funeral home. We send additional information along with our monthly mailings.

A number of supporting publications are offered to complement the AfterLoss program, covering a wide array of subjects and providing specific levels of assistance, guidance and comfort for surviving loved ones. These special publications include:

Widowed - offers special support for widows and widowers

The Lament of Child Loss - encourages bereaved parents as they struggle to survive one of the most tramatic of all losses

Grief is a Process, Not an Event - answers to the questions most frequently asked during bereavement classes

The First Effects of Grief and How to Deal With Them - four special folders dealing with four issues facing the bereaved: The Effects of Grieving on Your Health, Lonliness Lives Here, Getting Past the Anger, and Guilt, the Common Thread

After My Loss - summarizes areas in which the bereaved need help and understanding and specifies what family and friends can say and do to provide comfort

Facing the Holidays After Your Loss - brings assistance, comfort and courage to those who must now face a holiday season without their loved one


If you would like to receive a six-month, free subscrition to the AfterLoss HelpLetter, please call us at 319-524-2340 or 800-699-2340 or contact us by clicking on "Contact Funeral Home" below and in the comments box type "Please send Afterloss Newsletter".