About H.O.P.E.

We are a support group in the Northern Kentucky area for bereaved parents who have lost a child of any age from any cause.  Our goal is to provide a safe and supportive place in which to mourn and explore new ways of coping with loss.

The mission of H.O.P.E. is to provide support, friendship, understanding, and resources to parents and families following the death of a child and to provide information and education to help bereaved parents support one another.

 The pain resulting from the loss of a child is best understood by those who have experienced it.  Never is such pain more overwhelming than when we are confronted with the anniversaries of our children's births and deaths.

Meetings & Directions: 

Second Monday of each month from 6:30 P.M. to  P.M. The Hospice Center of St. Elizabeth Medical Center,  483 South Loop Drive, Edgewood, KY.  Across the street (south) from St Elizabeth Medical Center.  Coming from I-275, take Turkeyfoot Rd to Thomas More Parkway and follow it to South Loop Rd, which is just past the Visitor Entrance of St Elizabeth Medical Center. (Look for the Surgicenter, turn right).  From the south, take Dudley Rd to Medical Village Dr, across from the Edgewood City Building, turn right onto South Loop Rd.

 Children are not supposed to die...Parents expect to see their children grow and mature. Ultimately, parents expect to die and leave their children behind...This is the natural course of life events, the life cycle continuing as it should. The loss of a child is the loss of innocence, the death of the most vulnerable and dependent. The death of a child signifies the loss of the future, of hopes and dreams, of new strength, and of perfection. - Arnold and Gemma 1994, iv, 9, 39

A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. But...there is no word for a parent who loses a child, that's how awful the loss is! - Neugeboren 1976, 154

"The view from the top is great, but don't miss the many senic overlooks along the way."

When a parent dies, you lose your past; when a child dies, you lose your future. - Anonymous