Time saver: These groups are for grief in general.  For specific losses (such as that of a child, spouse, or otherwise), please click to see related keywords.

Hospice sponsors facilitated groups in a variety of areas of Charlotte, Pineville, and Davidson for people who have lost a loved one (adult or child) to any cause. For more information on the groups, click here to see their list or call Hospice at 335-3902 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information about groups in Lincoln County, call Chaplain Carol Lawler at Hospice of Lincoln County (704/736-0264). (Click for overview of Grief resources)

A twice monthly daytime group for any adult who has lost a family member or close friend to any cause.  For details call the Buddy Kemp Caring House at 384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Click for overview of Grief resources)

A weekly evening group for any adult who has lost a family member or close friend to any cause.  For details call the Buddy Kemp Caring House at 384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  (Click for overview of Grief resources)

An ongoing weekly evening group for any adult who has lost a family member or close friend to any cause.  For details on a group meeting at the Buddy Kemp Caring House, call BKCH at 384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30  p.m.

Sister groups meet in Matthews at the Levine Senior Center in the late afternoon and early evening.  For details, call the Presbyterian Hospital Hospice and Palliative Care at 704/384-6478 Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.   (Click for overview of Grief resources)

This group schedule includes a variety of activities which sometimes contains a support group.  Their focus is both on the loss of a child as well as other family members.  They also start and run a GriefShare course for folks who have lost anyone close to them as well as individual encouragement.  The Footprints newsletter is worth reading.  For individual assistance or more info, click here to see their website or call Jerry at 704/509-6603 Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.   (Click for overview of Death of a Child resources)

The Grief Group at Idlewild ARP  (1997)   (1035,709)
Caregivers Bereavement Support Group(1632)
Calvary Church Grief Support Group  (1998)    (1403,709)
Circle of Friends  (2002) (1528,709)
Fragrance of His Love & Solo Flight    (1602,709) Note: no response to multiple messages although answering machine exists.
Hospice at Charlotte Loss of a Parent Group (2000)   (1539) 
Pet Loss Support Group (1999) (1443,709)
St. Gabriel's Loss of a Parent Group (2003)     (1448;709

These folks provide a wide variety of services on a sliding scale for children and adults who have lost a family member or friend.  These services include groups and individual counseling for parents who have lost children of all and any ages (including during and after pregnancy) and for children through young adults who are grieving the death of a family member or friend.  There are no limits to which the manner that the person died.  Call 376-2580 Monday through Thursday 9-5 or Friday 9-3 for details; their address is 1320 Harding Place, Charlotte, NC 28204; click to go to their website at www.kindermourn.org. (Click for overview of Grief resources)

This service provides comprehensive data and referral assistance for nonprofit and government resources in the NC counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, and Anson counties and in or near the city of Mooresville, NC.  If you are calling on a landline or residential phone in one of those counties, dial 2-1-1.  If that fails, if you are calling on a cell phone, or if you are calling from anywhere else in NC, call 866/744-7778.  For calls from out of NC, use their local number of 704/377-1100. Although they are open 24 hours a day, you may wish to call weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for non-emergency questions.

The friendly staff at this full service library can help you research any medical topic using their up-to-date computers, databases, journals and books.  No previous research experience or medical knowledge is required. Click here for details or call them at 704-384-6393.

TO LIFE (a nonprofit organization founded by Alexis Stein and Howard Winokuer) served Charlotte and the surrounding area from 1979 to 1996 providing a wide variety of grief related services.  It unfortunately no longer is in existence, but is included here because of its historical importance and the contribution Alexis,  Howard, and the staff made to Charlotte.

MedLinePlus

This service of the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health is one of the better one-stop shops for beginning your search on the internet for medical information.  For those of you who live in Mecklenburg and Union counties in NC, we recommend that you contact the Health Library for more personal assistance from the experts there in searching for reliable medical information. Click here for their details.

Click to link to any of these lists of national groups: 

The Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine Index
The Genetic Alliance
NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) Database

Click here to branch to the American Self-Help Clearinghouse listing of toll-free phone numbers for a wide variety of topics.