Bereavement Support
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Organisation | Acorns Children's Hospice Trust |
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Drakes Court
Alcester Road B47 6JR Wythall |
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supporter.services@acorns.org.uk | |
Phone | 01564 825009 |
Website | http://www.acorns.org.uk |
Opening hours | Monday 9am–5pm Tuesday 9am–5pm Wednesday 9am–5pm Thursday 9am–5pm Friday 9am–5pm Saturday Closed Sunday Closed |
We provide emotional support to families of babies, children, young people and their families accessing Acorns services, from diagnosis through to end of life and following the death of a child.
An assessment of each family’s needs is undertaken by a family team worker, who is fully qualified with a background in nursing and or social care. They will then offer and provide pre and post-bereavement support to meet emotional and practical needs of families as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Each family has access to a family team worker to provide psychosocial, emotional and practical support.
Siblings are supported through a specialist siblings service which may take the form of group support, time limited individual support or a bespoke residential programme.
At end of life, the family will be supported by the whole hospice team. This includes:
-Advance care planning to prepare for how to deal with the actual reality of bereavement, helping give families choice and control around the end of life of their child
-One-to-one or family home visits
-School visits providing bereavement support to siblings and advice and support for teachers
-An out of hours service is also available 24 hours a day
-Support to extended family such as grandparents
-Support via group work and workshops
-Practical advice and support with funeral arrangements, registering a child’s death, liaising with other agencies and ensuring other family members are informed
-Access to the special bedroom after the death of a child
-Encouraging and facilitating memory capturing – this may include photography, building memory boxes or books
-Inviting and supporting families at memorial events
-Access to the hospice memorial garden
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Categories | Loss, breakdown and bereavement |
Gender | both |
Quality standards |
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- Staff are suitably qualified