Parents Are Partners

STAR-Center provides a monthly parent psychoeducational group, “Parents are Partners” to teach parents about the symptoms, causes and treatments of depression. Additionally, STAR-Center offers bereavement support groups for adults, children and teens that have lost a loved one or family member to a completed suicide.

Parents are Partners

·  Parents learn about the causes, expectable course, and treatments for depression.

·  Depression is discussed as an illness that occurs, not a condition that is “someone’s fault.”

·  Parents also will discuss, with a trained professional to what extent usual expectations at home and at school should be adjusted in light of their child’s depression.

Survivors of Suicide (SOS/Bereavement Groups)

·  The purpose of the group is to give survivors an opportunity, in a safe environment, to voice the many painful feelings that suicide leaves in its wake.

·  A professionally-led support group to help members cope with the death of a loved one from suicide.

·  Survivors share their experiences with other survivors who are in different stages of grief, and learn from each other.

·  Open to anyone over 18 years of age, and with any type of relationship to the deceased.

·  The group meets in an 8-week session. A new group begins each fall, winter, and spring.

·  There is a monthly group for those who have participated in the weekly group.

Children’s Grief Group

·  A grief support group can provide children with the opportunity to share their experiences with others who have also lost someone. The group leaders can help children to learn more about how to express their feelings and more about the natural processes of grief.

·  A professionally-led support group to help members cope with the death of a loved one.

·  Open to children ages 518 who are family members of the deceased.

·  Children’s group continues until the family or child feels they are done but can return at any time.

·  Children may share their feelings in a supportive atmosphere while going through the grief process.

For more information on these services, please contact Alexis Pape, at or 412-246-5619