Young children and grief

http://www.growingartpress.com/books/books.html
This book is a tool to help young children to open up about grief and be able to share, talk and reach out about the grief they may be experiencing after a loss of a loved one.
Tell them Heavenly Angels in Need sent you.

OCT 15, 2008 Remember our angels in Heaven

Light a Candle for your baby tonight!

Remembering our angels. Loss of an infant, child or any family member is so hard on all of us. Please remember to understand that when someone needs to talk "let them".
Remember when the family who experienced loss needs to cry " let them".
Remember if they need to get mad "let them".
If they need to pray "let them".

Consider lighting a candle tonight at 7 pm tonight in memory of someone you love.
This month is infant loss awareness month!

2 recent emergent request

We usually have a spreadsheet we have with lists of places to give to and our volunteers pick a place and just send something to a need off of the list. However randomly we receive an emergent request. One request recently was for a casket.
We were able to provide a family a casket we also sent burial clothes and a memory box. It was wonderful to see how our volunteers all came together to get this request done. And also the funeral home that helped donate a casket to this family who was in great need.
Then another came and with in the next day the parents were being sent a quilt, memory box, burial clothes, and more.. It was wonderful to see how quickly our volunteers were able to meet the needs of another emergent need.

I have to brag and say our volunteers are priceless!!!

Serving bereaved families

Here are a few questions I am asking so we can serve bereaved families better as an organization. I am asking this from all who feel like speaking up!!

We offer memory boxes for parents after losing a baby (heavenly angels in need does). What type of art or sayings are appropriate for us to use to decorate on these boxes? What colors? What kind of thing would you want inside the box? Would you want something that has teddy bears, butterflies, Asian symbols, basically what is appropriate to you for us to decorate the boxes with?
Thank you for this. We are really working on striving to give what is needed and wanted. But want to ask direct from the families and whomever can help as much as possible!!
Also,we are also considering personalizing boxes. Like have parents send us a "copy" of a picture of their baby and we could decoupage the picture onto a box. This is for parents who did not get anything such as a memory box when they were at hospital. Not for parents who did.
What do you think about this idea?

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Remembering our Angels

http://heavenlyangelsinneed.org/
Front page

In Memory of baby Tayden

Baby Boy Tayden was only 24 weeks gestation and this little angel went to be with the Lord.
Here is the Casket HAIN gave to Tayden's family to bury him in and his gown..

We are deeply sorry we had to use this part of our ministry but we are humbly happy we could be there for this family in their time of grief..

And his memory box

Donate your wedding gown, prom gown etc..

Before and After

http://www.freewebs.com/weddinggowns4angels/beforeafter.htm

Click on link above to see before and after pictures of wedding gowns that have been donated and turned into burial garments

Our New Bereavement site

Ok its here! http://Heavenlyangelsinneed.org We are still working on site and forum. The forum is having some issues but be sure to keep trying!