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Walla Walla—Community members throughout the region are invited to join a ten-week grief support class offered this winter by the Walla Walla Community Hospice (WWCH.) The class will begin Wednesday, January 10, 2024, and run through March 13, 2023. It is offered in person at WWCH and virtually. Attendees need not be family members of current or former hospice patients; there is no charge to the participants. All forms of grief support offered through Walla Walla Community Hospice are free.

The hybrid weekly support group will be held on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. It will be facilitated by WWCH grief support specialists utilizing the book, “Understanding Your Grief” by Dr. Alan Wolfelt. The winter group will close to new members after the second meeting or when registration is filled. 

After winter’s 10-week class, the next Grief Support Class will begin on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

To participate in any of WWCH’s grief support groups, please register via 509-525-5561 or info@wwhospice.org. To learn more about the grief support opportunities, please review support options listed at http://www.hospice.org.

WWCH was founded in Walla Walla in 1980. The not-for-profit agency provides compassionate end-of-life comfort care, family support, and bereavement support in Walla Walla and Columbia Counties and NE Umatilla County. Hospice addresses all the needs of the patient and family during the last stages of an illness. Patients who contact WWCH when they first learn an illness is incurable are able to receive the most comprehensive care. Patients of any age and with any terminal illness are eligible for a hospice benefit.