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The Compassionate Friends

Greater Manchester, NH, Chapter

We Need Not Walk Alone

About Us

The Compassionate Friends is a self-help, mutual assistance organization offering friendship and understanding to bereaved families following the death of a child.
The Greater Manchester Area Chapter is one of over 600 chapters in the United States and 29 countries throughout the world.  We are non-denominational.
The mission of TCF is to assist families in the positive resolution of grief and to provide information to help others be supportive.
Healing comes through sharing.  Those who are further along in their grief reach out and give support and understanding to those who are newly bereaved.  Meetings are safe havens where members feel free to talk about their children and the emotions they are going through.  We learn we are not alone in facing this terrible journey and together we heal.
How does the chapter run?
Our chapter is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization.  We have no fees or dues and run entirely on voluntary contributions.  Members work in honor of their children and siblings to oversee the running of the chapter.  These members also give back to honor those who reached out to them when their own grief was new.

Chapter Offerings:

[A Butterfly]

In addition to this web site, which provides information about chapter activities as well as other bereavement resources available on the web and locally, our chapter of TCF offers the following:

 

  • Support and friendship to all bereaved parents, grandparents, and adult siblings.
  • Monthly meetings offering small group discussions.  A safe place to share your grief and your memories with others who understand.
  • Information about the grieving process through programs, handouts, and a large Lending Library of books, audiotapes, and videos.
  • One on one support through phone calls or informal meetings with a parent who has "been there".
  • The Children's Memorial Butterfly Garden, a comforting place for remembering our children and siblings and for quiet reflection.
  • Yearly Memorial Events
    (Where friends and family may join us in remembering all our precious children.):
    • Garden Butterfly Release
    • December Candle Lighting