ASSOCIATION VIVRE SON DEUIL 1901 law association (non-profit-making organization)

 

I) Vivre son deuil works with voluntaries

* doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers

* experienced people coming from support associations

 

For all of them

* selective entry

* training

* supervision

 

II ) Phone-listening is national

* Vivre son deuil sends bereaved people from the provinces to local associations and to the interassociative groups which are setting up

* Vivre son deuil works permanently with them and tries to support them as much as possible (documents, advice, training ..)

 

III) Support to bereaved people

In the association this support is offered under different forms :

Phone-listening : 33 (1) 42 38 08 08

* Voluntaries and professionnals offer a permanent phone-listening for bereaved people and their close relations

* This permanency also appeals to national education, hospital staff employees

* There is someone on duty from Monday to Friday

* All contributors have received a specific training to be able to listen, converse, inform and eventually advice

* Book references, specific adresses according to the kind of helps required, bereavement specificity or inhabitation place can be communicated.

* These options are available all over France, Belgium and Switzeland

 

Individual and family conversations

* Individual or family conversations can be organized to help people to take up difficulties and to choose the best ways to be helped according to their situation

* Individual psychological support may be provided

* Mutual aid and support groups

* Some people desire to meet other bereaved people to share their story and to find a comfort in a convivial atmosphere. After conversation they can integrate a mutual aid group

* Other people are living difficult bereavements like death by suicide : specific support groups have been especially created to help them

* Support groups are also organized for children and teenagers

 

IV ) For bereaved children

* Phone conversations and advice for families and professionnals in contact with these children

* Conversations with bereaved children and their family. Possibility of a regular follow-up (drawing is one of the childrens favorite way of expressing themselves)

* Groups workshops for bereaved children and teenagers to help them to express themselves and share their motions and fears

 

Support documents

* videos for families and contributors

"Today, yesterday, tomorrow, to live his bereavements…" (20 mn)

"Bereaved children…" (40 mn)

* drawing book

* booklet "you are in mourning…"

 

V) Other activities of the association

1) Theoretical and practical trainings

6 x 2 days seminars every year ( 4 in the provinces)

specific trainings according to numerous demands

 

2) Communications

* speeches broadcast about death and bereavement thanks to the media

* contacts with other associations to work together

* congress every other year : Paris, october 11th & 12 th, 2002 : collective deaths and bereavements

 

3) Publications

* review : bereavements and separations (coming soon)

* published books by the leaders of the association

* specific folders and small volumes "you are in mourning…"

 

4) Evaluation and supervision of all the activities

 

5) Researches

 

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Vivre son Deuil Ile de France - 7, rue Taylor - 75010 PARIS

Phone-listening for bereaved people - 33 1 42 38 08 08

Secretary office : 01 42 38 07 08 (9 A.M. to 12.30 A.M.)

Fax : 33 1 42 38 08 88

Internet : HYPERLINK http://www.vivresondeuil.asso.fr

Email : HYPERLINK mail to : vivresondeuil@vivresondeuil.asso.fr

 

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