Wendt Center for Loss and Healing

Remember a time … feeling as though a train has roared through your heart, splitting it into a million pieces. Feeling as though happiness is a complete luxury that you will never be able to afford again, when everything that you breathe, feel, sleep, dream and think is grief and pain. It covers you like a shroud …it invades your lungs and your brain and your bones and your joints. It makes you feel completely alone. And suddenly you see a break in the bleakness, almost like sunshine, or you hear a small peaceful song …that is my definition of the Wendt Center and their staff.

—Wendt Center Client

Welcome

The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing is a premier resource for addressing grief in adults and children. We provide mental health services, training, and education to ease the impact of illness, loss, and bereavement. We respect individuals and their experiences, understand the pain of loss, and support people in times of illness and death.

The Wendt Center for Loss and Healing understands the need to reach out for help when the stress associated with illness and loss is overwhelming. We also understand that not everyone has the means to pursue professional or peer assistance and people often feel lost among the countless support options now available. We have created this web site in an attempt to provide useful, practical and accessible information for those interested in learning more about the process of healing around life-challenging illness, loss and grief.

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What's New!

Camp Forget-Me-Not
August 1, 2, and 3, 2008

Camp Applications Click Here

DC Homicide Resource Guide 2008
Information for Families, Community Organizations, and Professionals impacted by homicide. Click Here

Volunteers Needed!
Please call our Volunteer Coordinator, Sarah Berry, on 202.624-0010 x 107. The Wendt Center welcomes volunteers to support our programs.
sberry@wendtcenter.org

Annual Benefit 2008

Thank you to everyone for another successful Benefit in 2007! Please mark your calendar for next year's Benefit to be held on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at the Four Season's Hotel in Georgetown. Click Here for 2007 Photos

United Way and CFC Campaigns
The Wendt Center is one of the charities you can designate if you participate in the annual United Way Campaign. Our agency code is #8345 and CFC Code is #17145 - thank you for remembering us!

Manual on Facilitating Grief Groups Available...
Click here to learn about this manual written by Wendt Center staff.