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I - Vivre son deuil works with voluntaries
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• doctors, psychologists, nurses, social workers
• experienced people coming from support associations
For all of them
• selective entry
• training
• supervision
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II - Phone-listening is national
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• 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 ..)
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III - Support to bereaved people
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In the association this support is offered under different forms :
Phone-listening (French speaking only) : 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
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Individual and family conversations
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• 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
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IV - For bereaved children
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• 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…"
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• 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…"
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V) Other activities of the association
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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
Vivre son Deuil Ile de France - 7, rue Taylor - 75010 PARIS
Phone-listening for bereaved people (French Speaking only) - 33 1 42 38 08 08
Secretary office : 33 1 42 38 07 08 (9 A.M. to 12.30 A.M.)
Fax : 33 1 42 38 08 88
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