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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/Camp Erin DC - 2010
The 2010 Session of Camp Forget-Me-Not/Camp Erin DC will be held on June 11-13, 2010 at Arlington Echo Educational Center in Millersville, MD. All Volunteer and Camper Applications will be available on March 1, 2010.
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GINGERBREAD HOUSES
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donated by David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc.
We would like to thank David M. Schwarz Architects and all their collaborators for their donation of the "sweetest" gift--handmade Gingerbread Houses. We are grateful that you chose the Wendt Center again this year to receive these wonderful gifts made with love and much hard work. Our office smells so good! Thank you!!
To see other pictures click here
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The 34th Anniversary Benefit
Emcee David Gregory and guest speaker Roger Rosenblatt
Our 34th Anniversary Benefit was a big success. We would like to thank all of you for your support over the years. We look forward to seeing you again at our 35th Anniversary Benefit on Thursday, November 4, 2010 at the Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20007.
To view the pictures from the 34th Anniversary Benefit click below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dng/sets/72157622708960913/show/
For more information contact Ricarda Dowling on (202) 204-5010 or Rdowling@wendtcenter.org
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2009 Camp Forget-Me-Not/Camp Erin DC
July 31 - August 2, 2009
Thank you sponsors, volunteers, and staff for all of your hard work and support which helped to make the 2009 Camp Forget-Me-Not/Camp Erin DC session the best one yet. It was truly an extraordinary experience for everyone. We look forward to doing it again next year!
Camp Forget-Me-Not/Camp Erin DC was highlighted in a two-page article in the Washington Times on Tuesday, August 4, 2009. The link to the article with photos is here. Enjoy, and thank you so much for your support of our work!
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The first annual Wendt Center Memorial Butterfly Release was a great success!
Click here for photos from “A Day to Remember”
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The Wendt Center's Spring
2009 Newsletter
Click here to view
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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!
+624-0062&agency_phone=(202)+624-0010&agency_email=shester%40lossandhealing.org&sessionId=&cartId=5258776)
www.unitedwaynca.org
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Grief Therapy Groups!
Enroll Now!! The Fall 2009 Grief Therapy Groups are starting soon. Most of the groups are on-going for all ages. For more information contact Grace Metz at 202.204.5014.
Click Here for List of 2009 Fall Grief Therapy Groups
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Manual on Facilitating Grief Groups Available...
Click here to learn about this manual written by Wendt Center staff.
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