The frontline professionals providing bereavement care to individuals, families, and communities are critical to the well-being and the ability to cope.

Our communities — and by extension, our neighbors — are the fabric of our society, creating supportive networks that foster solidarity, support, and love.

Every day in communities across the United States, families are silently confronting significant hardships following the death of a loved one. There are countless professional “touch points” for these families, and each interaction has the unique opportunity to become a hallmark memory.

Professional responses in support of families can make all the difference in short- and long-term health, solvency, and stability of a newly bereaved individual, family, caregiver, or community.