HIVE Directory: Support For Bereavement

A Centre for support for people with life-limiting illnesses
Rowans Living Well Centre drop-in service is available Monday to Sunday, from 10:00 – 16:00. The Living Well Centre offers a range of both face-to-face and virtual activities, and the opportunity to meet new people who can support and guide you. Please see below for full details on all available activities or contact us for more information.

Our Child Bereavement Support service (known as Rowans Meerkat Service), offers specialist emotional support to children and young people who have a significant adult (such as a parent or grandparent), with a life-limiting illness or, who have been bereaved of an adult close to them. We work alongside families with children up to the age of 18.

Online and/or Telephone Based.

Simon Says offers bereavement support for Children and Young People, with a wide range of resources which can be read, watched, and downloaded from the website. https://www.simonsays.org.uk/

The Helpline (023 8064 7550) is manned 9am-5pm Monday - Friday by trained volunteers who will be able to provide information and advice, and if appropriate, the child/young person can be registered with Simon Says for support.

PositiveMinds is a new style of service offering informal support for anyone who feels low, worried or hopeless in Portsmouth.

We're here to help you, if you are in despair about anything – such as housing, money, relationships, work, bereavement, or living away from home at university.

School Nurses in Portsmouth work in local authority schools, our role is to support the health and wellbeing of school age children by promoting good health to enable children to reach their full potential.

We work across all schools in Portsmouth often meeting families in schools, family hubs or where necessary, at the child’s home.

What the organisation provides – types of interventions and support -
National child measurement programme (NCMP)
Assessment of School Entry Health Questionnaires
School Clinics
Bedwetting advice
Constipation and soiling advice and support
Support and advice healthy weight growth and development
Healthy sleep routine information and advice
1 to 1 sessions with Young People following referral
Support with complex health needs
Individual care plans for children
Help if parents are worried about their child’s health
Adherence to safeguarding and child protection policies and guidance

Unfortunately, we are unable to support with behaviour needs or identification/assessment of neuro disabilities and would recommend parents/carers to discuss these concerns with school.

Who can access the service?
Children who live and attend a school within Portsmouth city. Children who are educated at home can also access our service.

Provides support and treatment for individuals experiencing complex and/or prolonged bereavement
The service accepts referrals from any health professionals working in the service’s community catchment area, including GPs.
Referral forms are available on request
Telephone: 023 92238548

Sue Ryder provides end of life and bereavement support for people with terminal illness

Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide meets the needs and overcomes the isolation experienced by people over 18 who have been bereaved by suicide.

Bereavement support after the death of a child from one month old up to an adult child and from any cause.
All of our volunteers are bereaved parents or adult siblings. We offer private Facebook Group support, online group support meetings, one to one local and group support, a grief library and leaflets written by parents about many aspects of losing a child.

You are not alone - you can be supported by us through our Helpline on 0345 123 2304 and our online support.

Age Ranges:
from one month old up to an adult child
Please note that we also offer support to adult bereaved siblings.

website www.tcf.org.uk or email helpline@tcf.org.uk

All of us at The Good Grief Trust have lost someone we love, so we want to help you find the support you need as quickly as possible. You will find stories from others who have had a similar loss, practical and emotional support and signposting to a choice of immediate tailored local and national support on each of our pages on our website.
Our hope is that you find useful information, advice and encouraging stories from others to help you in this most difficult of times and to find a way forward with your life.