Showing posts with label Compassionate. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Worldwide Candle Lighting December 11 Unites Families Mourning Children

With the difficult holidays aloft us, beggared parents and families accept a day all their own, the additional Sunday in December, to bethink all accouchement who accept died. The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting, with abutment from affiliated organizations, churches, burial homes, and caring individuals, is accepting captivated Sunday, December 11 at 7 p.m. bounded time about the globe. Tens of bags of families will participate. More than 300 academic casework were captivated in the United States abandoned endure year, an access of about 100 percent in the accomplished two years.

Oak Brook, IL -- United in their adulation for a adolescent who has died, hundreds of bags of families about the apple will accompany calm Sunday, December 11 to ablaze candles in afterthought of all accouchement gone too soon, behindhand of age, could cause of death, religion, or aboriginal origin.

The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting, captivated annually the additional Sunday in December at 7 p.m. bounded time, unites ancestors and accompany about the apple who ablaze candles for one hour to account and bethink accouchement missing from their lives, but not from their hearts. Observances are captivated throughout the day. This is the event’s ninth year.

“The Worldwide Candle Lighting is one way that we try to accompany ablaze out of black during the holidays, a time of the year that is difficult for a lot of beggared families,” says Patricia Loder controlling administrator of The Compassionate Friends, the nation and world’s better self-help afflication organization. “Like a ring, this amphitheater of ablaze surrounding the apple represents that there is no alpha and no end for the adulation we backpack for our children. It exists for all eternity.”

The amount of academic Worldwide Candle Lighting contest submitted to The Compassionate Friends civic website has added about 100 percent over the accomplished two candle lightings, beyond 300 endure year in the United States alone. Services are planned not alone by capacity of The Compassionate Friends, but aswell by affiliated organizations, burial homes, churches, and caring individuals. In addition, bags of breezy candle lightings are accepting captivated in homes with accompany and ancestors in areas area no academic candle lighting is planned, or bodies are clumsy to attend. Known services, including those in added countries, are listed on The Compassionate Friends civic website at www.compassionatefriends.org.

For all who ambition to leave a bulletin in anamnesis of a adolescent who has died, a “Remembrance Book” will be accessible December 11 at The Compassionate Friends civic website.

The Compassionate Friends has about 600 TCF capacity in the United States with locations in all 50 states, as able-bodied as Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. The alignment has a attendance in an estimated 29 countries about the world. For added information, appointment The Compassionate Friends civic Website or call, toll-free 877-969-0010.

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Compassionate Friends Bereavement Organization Recognizes 141 Compassionate Employers Nationwide

Employers that accept apparent added acuteness to advisers that accept accomplished the afterlife of a child, sibling, or grandchild are accepting recognited as Compassionate Employer Recognition recipients as accustomed by The Compassionate Friends, the nation's better afflication alignment with added than 600 chapters. Representing 39 states, these administration ambit from baby companies to those with bags of employees.

Oakbrook, IL -- One hundred forty one employers, apery 39 states additional Washington DC. are accepting accustomed by The Compassionate Friends for assuming added acuteness to beggared advisers afterward the afterlife of a child. The Compassionate Friends (TCF) is the nation's better self-help afflication alignment with over 600 capacity confined all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico.

So generally advisers who accept accomplished the afterlife of a adolescent are accepted to acknowledgment to plan in three days, handle the aforementioned plan amount as before, and to leave their affliction at home There is oftentimes a abridgement of compassionate by administration about the realities of affliction in the workplace. These 141 employers, ample and small, accessible and private, are accepting accustomed for accouterment the benevolence and compassionate that is so basic to the afflication process. Nominated by the bodies they accept anon helped, these administration are accepting Compassionate Employer Recognition in 2009 for traveling aloft and above the accustomed behavior of a lot of companies in allowance their advisers if the afterlife of a adolescent occurred.
   
Criteria for Compassionate Employer Recognition include, but are not bound to:
1.   Allowing added time off after accident of benefits.
2.   Allowing adjustable plan schedules and assignments.
3.   Allowing elbowroom in job achievement standards.
4.   Fostering an ambiance of alternate abutment a allotment of coworkers.
5.   Providing able affliction counseling, animal assets support, or advice apropos self-help afflication organizations.
6.   Other behavior and practices that go above what is accustomed in the community.

This is the ninth year for acceptance of employers, with recipients jumping from three the aboriginal year, to the accepted 141 for 2009. Employers ambit from baby companies with as few as four advisers to ample companies with abounding bags of employees.

The 2009 recipients of TCF's Compassionate Employer Recognition are (by state): ALABAMA: Dynamic Contract & Consultant Services, Montgomery; ALASKA: Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Anchorage; Family Centered Services of Alaska, Fairbanks; ARKANSAS: Middleton Heat and Air, Bryant; CALIFORNIA: American Honda Finance Corporation, Torrence; Centerplate, San Diego; Employment Development Dept, Sacramento; Hegge Electrical Contractors, Indio; Hughson High School, Hughson; Huntington Hospital, Pasadena; Little Company of Mary, Torrence; Maxim Craneworks, Long Beach; MV Transportation, Fairfield; Pacific Medical Buildings, San Diego; Petrol Advertising, Inc., Burbank; Radiological Associates of Sacramento, Sacramento; Service Rock Products, Victorville; Skyway House, Chico; Victor Valley Union High School District, Victorville;

COLORADO: Century 21 Metro Alliance, Colorado Springs; Holland & Hart LLP, Denver; CONNECTICUT: Michael P. Krol & Co., CPA, PC, Stafford Springs; FLORIDA: Beach City Motors, Ft. Walton Beach; Crown Auto Group, St. Petersburg; Florida Hospital Centra Care, Winter Park; Hospice of Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach; PGA Tour, Inc., Ponte Vedra Beach; St. Johns County School District, Augustine; GEORGIA: Mount Vernon Bank, Mount Vernon; Schroeder Enterprises, Inc., Atlanta; IDAHO: Kingston Companies, Idaho Falls; ILLINOIS: Kenneth B. Gore, LTD, Chicago; Outback Steakhouse, South Elgin; Quad City USA Family Restaurant, Moline; Standard Industrial and Automotive Equipment Inc, Hanover Park; Urban Retail Properties, Chicago; INDIANA: Bowen Engineering Corporation, Fishers; DRIVE Medical Consulting & Communications, Indianapolis; The Hearth at Prestwick, Avon; IOWA: Bourbon Street & Voodoo Lounge, Cedar Falls; LaJames International College, Fort Dodge; Lisbon Community School District, Lisbon; Mercy Hospital of the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters, Oelwein; Quality Medical Services, Mason City; Tripoli Nursing Home, Tripoli; Young Plumbing and Heating, Waterloo; KANSAS: PKM Steel Service, Salina;

KENTUCKY: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort; Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital, Ashland; LOUISIANA: HomeCare Inc, Baton Rouge; Northwestern Mutual Financial Network of Louisiana, Metairie; Northwestern State University College of Nursing, Shreveport; Salario Law Firm, Marksville; MAINE: Fidelity Investments, Marlborough; MARYLAND: American Mechanical Services, Laurel; Cecil Bank, Elkton; Southern Maryland Skin Specialists, Prince Frederick; Southwest Airlines, Baltimore; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda; Washington County Hospital, Hagerstown; MASSACHUSETTS: Au Bon Pain, Boston; Charles River Laboratories, Shrewsbury; City of Lowell School Health Unit, Lowell; First Electric Motor Service, Woburn; J.G. Pyne Arts Magnet School, Lowell; New Horizons CLC of Boston, Waltham; Watermark Environmental, Lowell; WJDF, Orange; MICHIGAN: Autocam Corporation, Kentwood; Hastings Surgeons, P.C., Hastings; MINNESOTA: Cambridge Isanti School District / Community Education, Cambridge; University of St. Thomas, St. Paul; USG Interiors Inc, Red Wing; MISSOURI: Century 21 Show-Me Realty, Houston; Heartland Lion's Eye Banks, Springfield; HNTB, Kansas City; MONTANA: Kringen Construction Co, Sidney; NEBRASKA: Marriott Global Sales and Customer Service Center, Omaha; NEW HAMPSHIRE: Henry Wilson School, Manchester; Londonderry School District, Londonderry; Parks-Tuttle/ New England Financial Services, Manchester; NEW JERSEY: MedQuist Inc., Laurel; NEW MEXICO: Carlisle Office Center, Albuquerque; Inland Kenworth, Albuquerque; NEW YORK: Evo Merchant Services, Melville; Miteq Inc, Hauppauge; Wegman's Food Markets, Depew; NORTH CAROLINA: A.G. Edwards, Greensboro; Hardin Construction Company, Raleigh; Jones Family Practice, Shelby; OHIO: Career Tech, Willoughby; Community Health Care, Inc, Canal Fulton; Health Care Management Group, Cincinnati; Laser Care, Batavia; Motor Carrier Service, Northwood; Tween Brands Inc., New Albany;    

OKLAHOMA: HighMount E&P, Oklahoma City; Nabholz Construction, Tulsa; Oklahoma Cardiovascular Associates, Oklahoma City; OREGON: American Red Cross, Oregon Pacific Chapter, Eugene; Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton; Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Roseburg; Fred Meyer, Albany; Hanna Strader, P.C., Portland; Liberty House, Salem; PENNSYLVANIA: Faulkner-Ciocca, Quakertown; H. J. Heinz, Pittsburgh; Interim Health Care Pittsburgh Office, Pittsburgh; Sam's Club, Wilkes-Barre Twp.; Unionville Chadds Ford School District, Kennett Square; SOUTH CAROLINA: Maurice Stephens Financial Group, Myrtle Beach; McLaughlin Group Inc., Greenville; TENNESSEE: Dairy Partners, LLC, Decherd; Deloitte and Touche, Hermitage; ServiceMaster, Memphis; Town of Collierville, Collierville; TEXAS: Citigroup, San Antonio; Genecov Physician Group, PA, Dallas; Hallsville ISD, Hallsville; Keller Williams Realty, San Antonio; LakePointe Medical Center, Rowlett; Medical Center of Plano, Plano; Sign Tech International, Austin; Wylie Independent School District, Abilene; Zale Corporation- Zales North America, Irving; UTAH: Marriott Global Incentives and Gift Cards, Salt Lake City; Smart Schofield Shorter and Lunceford, Murray; VERMONT: Northeast Primary School, Rutland; The Vermont Country Store, N. Clarendon; VIRGINIA: Bon Secours Hospitals, Richmond; Doctors On Call, Virginia Beach; WASHINGTON: Mt. Baker Care Center, Bellingham; Providence Everett Medical Center, Everett; Providence St. Peter Hospital-Olympia, Olympia; W.B. Sprague, Inc., Tacoma; WISCONSIN: HJ Martin and Son, Green Bay; Luther Midelfort - Mayo Health System, Eau Claire; Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee; Rexnord Industries LLC, Milwaukee; Transport Refrigeration, Inc., De Pere; Washington, D.C.: US Capitol Police.

"So generally advisers who accept accomplished the afterlife of a adolescent are accepted to acknowledgment to plan in three days, handle the aforementioned plan amount as before, and to leave their affliction at home," says Patricia Loder, Executive Director of The Compassionate Friends. "There is oftentimes a abridgement of compassionate by administration about the realities of affliction in the workplace. These 141 employers, ample and small, accessible and private, are accepting accustomed for accouterment the benevolence and compassionate that is so basic to the afflication process."

The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to abetment families against the absolute resolution of affliction afterward the afterlife of a adolescent of any age and to accommodate advice to advice others be supportive. To acquaintance The Compassionate Friends, alarm toll-free 877-969-0010 or appointment the TCF civic website at www.compassionatefriends.org.

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