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Dignity
Supporting Children and Adults Who
Have Experienced a Loss Due to Death
The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss
Bereavement Center is a community
based grief support program that offers
individual counseling, crisis response,
educational programs, and school
and workplace services. In addition
to traditional support groups, the
bereavement center offers a variety of
art therapy groups, massage therapy,
and yoga for individuals on their grief
journey. These wellness initiatives offer
a unique opportunity for the bereaved
to be with other grieving individuals and
to express their feelings creatively.
Collaboration with community partners
is important to the bereavement center.
This is the second year we assisted
the ALS Association Northern Ohio
Chapter in providing a camp for
children who have a loved one with
ALS. The bereavement center provides
art therapy, as well as creative problem
solving activities. In addition, this is our
third annual camp collaboration with the
Children Who Witness Violence program for
children who have experienced a death
due to trauma. The bereavement center
continues to provide annual bereavement
day camps and special events for hospice
and community families.
“Art therapy focuses on the creative process as a healing
process, and on the resulting artwork as a form
of communication. The art in and of itself is healing.”
–Diane Snyder Cowan, Director of The Elisabeth
Severance Prentiss Bereavement Center
14 | Hospice of the Western Reserve
Scarlet Tanager by Gary B.
Spirit House by Carol D.
comfort | hope | healing
The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Bereavement Center makes over
700 visits and receives more than 550 inquiry calls in 2005.