Pennsylvania Long-Term Resources

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Please also visit:

Before the Birth
During Birth
After the Birth (immediate postpartum and long term healing)
Farewell Celebrations to link into immediate funeral/burial/cremation information that is not based on location, as well as personalized farewell options such as crafts or special events, and support resources.

Groups:

MEND
The SBD Love Cupboards host various group gatherings, including Sewing Circles
The SBD Professional Doulas host various group gatherings, including Birthing Healing retreats and workshops for stillbirthday parents
Face2Face Philadelphia Suberbs

Organizations:

Fatality Review Program of Philadelphia
Ms. Slyvia Urrata
321 University Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 685-7408
Fax: (215) 685-7592
Services: Home visits for families who lost babies
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Bureau of Family Heath
Ms. Kimberly Early
Health/Welfare Building, East Wing, 7th Floor
7th & Forester Streets
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Phone: (717) 772-2762
Fax: (717) 772-0323
Email: kiearly@state.pa.us
Website: www.health.state.pa.us
Services: grief & bereavement referrals, counseling & educational information & resources. Provides services to families who have experienced the death of an infant age 364 days or younger for any reason. Some bilingual materials. Covers state of PA.
SIDS of Pennsylvania
Mrs. Judy Bannon
Executive Director
810 River Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Phone: (412) 322-5680
Fax: (412) 322-5686
Email: sidspa@aol.com
Website: www.sids-pa.org
Services: grief support, education and research
SIDS Resources
Jackie Souders
519 Saw Mill Road
Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
Phone: (717) 766-3824
New Drawing’s of the Grief Assistance
Christina Williams
321 University Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 685-7448
Email: williamsgap@aol.com

The International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation has an emphasis on therapist guided psychotherapy and a resource list to locate one near you.

Books, Websites and More:

Please be sure to visit the immediate emotional health resources that include crisis hotlines, websites, and books on bereavement.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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Miscarriages are labor, miscarriages are birth. To consider them less dishonors the woman whose womb has held life, however briefly.

— Kathryn Miller Ridiman

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

— Joseph Hall

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

— Robert Bolt

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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