The COPE Foundation – A non-profit grief and healing organization dedicated to helping parents and families living with the loss of a child

PARENT SUPPORT GROUPS

Losing a child is devastating. Having the peer support from other parents who can understand is life saving. COPE parent support groups offer parents a safe place to share their grief and find the tools to live with their unimaginable loss.

SIBLING SUPPORT GROUPS

There is no greater support than someone who can also relate and understand the depths of your grief. Oftentimes, the loss of a sibling is overshadowed by the loss of a child, and siblings will sometimes feel alone or forgotten.

CAMP ERIN NYC

The COPE Foundation partners with the Moyer Foundation to offer Camp Erin NYC, a FREE, weekend long grief support camp designed to help children and teenagers ages 6 -17, who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or someone close to them.

Upcoming Events

The COPE Line

The COPE Line is a resource for grieving individuals with an immediate need for support. Each caller reaches a COPE Line volunteer who has been trained by COPE’s Clinical Director. Volunteers respond to the caller in a personalized way; providing resources, referrals and information or simply offering emotional support.

COPE Line – (516) 364-COPE (2673)

Monday – Friday, 9am-9pm
Saturday – Sunday, 10am-3pm

Thank you!

COPE’s 14th Annual Walk was on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at the Long Beach Boardwalk in Long Beach (at Laurelton Boulevard).

Nearly 400 COPE families, friends, and supporters walked to honor the memories of our loved ones, while also raising funds to support the foundation’s work. Walkers are bereaved parents and siblings as well as friends, family, and supporters.

We just updated our COPE Walk page with the most recent images and memories.

Click here to visit the COPE Walk Photo Gallery

COPE Photos

GREETINGS FROM CAMP ERIN NYC!

Children often grieve in different ways. At camp we offer many different outlets for them to express their feelings – through conversation, art, music, or activity. This year we are making drums so they can have their own instrument to play at drumming. In addition, they will be able to take them home and use them as a tool in their grief journey and remind them of their experience at Camp Erin NYC.

We depend on the kindness and generosity of our communities, families, friends, and corporations to help provide the funds and supplies necessary for camp. We are collecting rolls of colorful and decorative duck tape to be used at camp this year for their drums. If you would like to donate any new or leftover rolls of tape from your kids craft boxes, we would be most appreciative! Please contact Ann: 914-939-5338 or email afuchs@copefoundation.org to set up a drop off.

In Loving Memory

Dedicated to our children who have passed, COPE helps us to Connect Our Paths Eternally, sustaining the bonds of love and energy that connect us.

Special Foundations and Websites

Photos of our Children

COPE Labryinth

COPE Foundation has dedicated a permanent labyrinth in Eisenhower Park’s Memorial Plaza, where COPE families can dedicate a brick in memory of their child, sibling or loved one. Our next dedication ceremony will take place late Fall or Spring, 2017.

Click here for more information

Founders Statement

The COPE Foundation was inspired by a dream.

In 1992, my 20 year-old daughter, Michelle, lost her life tragically in a car accident. In the midst of my grief, she came to me in a dream and said,
” I’m okay, Mommy. You’re the ones who aren’t okay and you need to reach out and help each other.”

I woke with a vision of grieving parents and siblings coming together for emotional support.

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