Compassionate Friends

Space Coast Chapter

P.O. Box 360678

Melbourne, FL  32936-0678

(321) 610-7875

The Compassionate Friends, USA

Florida Space Coast Chapter of The Compassionate Friends

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Our Mission

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Luncheons

You can contact Mary Lane (407) 892-7417

 for information on all our luncheons.

If you have never attended one of our luncheons before,

we heartedly endorse them!

They are more social than our meetings and give you a chance

to meet your fellow TCF members in a more personal way.

We encourage you to come out one month and try it out.

Credo

Siblings Walking Together

Resources

Special Events Links

 

The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.

 

The Compassionate Friends was founded 40 years ago when a chaplain at the Warwickshire Hospital in England brought together two sets of grieving parents and realized that the support they gave each other was better than anything he, as a chaplain, could ever say or provide. Meeting around a kitchen table, the Lawleys and the Hendersons were joined by a bereaved mother and the chaplain, Simon Stephens, and The Society of the Compassionate Friends was born. The Compassionate Friends jumped across the ocean and was established in the United States and incorporated in 1978 in Illinois.

 

Each chapter, along with the supporting National Office, is committed to helping every bereaved parent, sibling, or grandparent who may walk through our doors or contact us.

 

Today more than 600 chapters serving all 50 states plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico offer friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, grandparents, and other family members during the natural grieving process after a child has died. Around the world more than 30 countries have a Compassionate Friends presence, encircling the globe with support so desperately needed when the worst has happened.

Seven Principles

 

The Compassionate Friends was established based upon seven principles. The principles are reviewed and minor wording changes have been made from time to time, but they continue to stand the test of time.

 

 

TCF offers friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents.

TCF believes that bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents can help each other toward a positive resolution of grief.

TCF reaches out across society's barriers to all bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents.

TCF understands that every members has individual needs and rights.

TCF reaches out to the bereaved primarily through our community of local chapters.

TCF chapters belong to their members.

TCF chapters are coordinated nationally to extend help to each other, and to bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents everywhere.

 

Click below to access the national site's home page:

  The Compassionate Friends National Organization