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!

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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Calling all Campers

and Volunteers!

2009 Camp Forget-Me-Not/Camp Erin DC

July 31 - August 2, 2009

Thank you for your interest in the

2009 Camp Forget-Me-Not/Camp Erin DC session, unfortunately, we are no longer accepting applications. We hope to see you next year!

 

All CAMPER APPLICATIONS and required paperwork were due by

Friday, June 5, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

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New Position Available

"CRIME VICTIM PROGRAM CASE MANAGER"

For more information click here

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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!

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Support Groups!

The Support Groups kick-off was in October 2008. Most of the groups are on-going for all ages. For more information call Beverly Jones at 202.204.5016 See Group Schedule.

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