#ChildrenGrieveToo #YouAreNotAlone #HealingHurt #RestoringHope #StopTheViolence
Violence and homicide has overtaken our local communities, affecting the lives of our children daily. This is where our children are forced to be among the thousands of Detroiters struggling to survive in the culture of crime that grips many neighborhoods. Although homicide cases receive heightened attention from media and the criminal justice system, the children who are directly affected lack adequate support. Here's where our organization steps in!
Our Info:
Miracles to Inspire Change and Healing After Experiencing Loss (MICHAEL) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that helps to provide trauma informed therapy, grief counseling, support groups, education, mentoring, recreational activities, and financial assistance to children who have lost a parent or close relative due to violence. Seeking to empower our youth and enrich their childhood experience through hope; We address grief and trauma, as well as provide mental health support. Our organization helps to connect children with their peers who have shared a similar loss, learn new coping skills, build resilience, and help them to understand they are not alone throughout their healing journey.
If grief can bring adults to their knees; imagine then the struggle of one in every 20 children who will experience the death of a parent or close relative before they graduate high school. Children and teens often grieve differently than adults. They may not know the words to express their feelings or they may act out their grief. For this very reason, their grief is often misinterpreted or overlooked, causing them to become the “forgotten mourners.”
Children suffering the loss of loved one do not ask for their lives to be so drastically changed. With your generous support, together we can help children with small things that may make a HUGE impact.
We're participating in the 2020 Rock Family of Companies Community Challenge! Please make a donation today to support our mission and help us win prizes!