Alyssia Green
"Helping one person might not change the world, but it could change the world for one person."
Hi everyone!
My name is Alyssia. Let me tell you why I love Henry Ford SandCastles Grief Support Program and hold it so dear to my heart.
My own experience with grief and loss is why I find myself working at SandCastles today (and interning last year!). That loss occurred when I was 5 years old and my father died very suddenly. Thankfully for us, my mom was referred to a grief support group in Ann Arbor that made a world of a difference in our lives. For the two years that we attended, we got to be around others who had also experienced the death of someone close to them and who could truly understand what we were going through. We weren't told to "move on" or rush through our grief, we were given the space to heal and grieve and move forward with our lives. We were encouraged to talk about my dad, to keep his memory alive, and to always hold a space for him in our hearts.
This is the kind of amazing support that Henry Ford SandCastles Grief Support Program provides to children and their families and I am so thankful that I get to be apart of this amazing organization and give back to others what I was given as a child. We provide a safe space that facilitates grieving and healing through the encouragement of sharing (but never forcing it), supporting the expression of all feelings and demonstrating how to manage those feelings in a safe and healthy way, and allowing for our participants' persons to be memorialized, remembered, and honored each time they come to program.
I encourage you to help me make a difference in the lives of children and families who have lost a loved one.
You can help by:
- Joining my fundraising team!
- Making a donation in memory of someone you have lost.
- Volunteering your time as a group faciltator, program aide, camp helper, or camp faciltator. Check out www.aboutsandcastles.org/get_involved/volunteer/ for more information!
- Sharing this page on any of your social media accounts (facebook, instagram, twitter, etc...)
Thank you for joining me in helping to sustain this valuable program and to help Build The Castle! <3
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