Grief Week
Do you personally know someone who needs our help? Let us know.
Email us at Contact@KLTFoundation.com, or fill out the form on our contact page. Please provide as much detail as you can; who passed away, who are the family members, are there any applicable details about the situation you think would help us understand what is needed, etc.
The routine of life is disrupted so dramatically after the loss of a child that there are no words to fully describe it. Every aspect of life is affected—physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and psychologically. It is an unfortunate club that no one chooses to join, and only those who have experienced child loss truly understand the depth of the pain that families must endure.
It is during this first week of unimaginable grief—what we call Grief Week—that the support of family, friends, and community is often needed most.
Inspired by the extraordinary compassion shown to our own family following Kathryn's death, the Grief Week Support Program provides practical assistance to families during those first difficult days. We know we cannot take away the pain of losing a child, but we can help relieve some of the everyday burdens by providing meals, household essentials, and other practical support for the family and the loved ones gathering around them.
By caring for the practical needs of daily living, we hope to give families the time and space to focus on what matters most—being together, receiving the support of those who love them, and simply allowing themselves to grieve.
Thanks to our contributors we are able to provide:
The Kathryn Leigh Thurgaland Foundation guidelines to initiate our Grief Week response for a family is directly related to our experience and our story. It’s what inspired us to create the KLT Foundation, to help parents and siblings who have lost a child.
Each situation is different, special, unique, and truly impactful to us. We try to help in the best ways we can whenever we are made aware of a life taken too soon.
Our program focuses mainly on the loss of a child; someone 18 or younger.
Grief Week services: (Supplies, grief care package, catered meals for a week, funds)
We also recognize that a “child” is not always easily defined by age. The KLT Foundation considers a variety of factors when informed about the death of a young one, who is older than 18 and offers different services on a case by case basis.
Losing a loved one and having to adapt to living with grief is a lifelong journey. We deeply sympathize and relate to anyone who is grieving a death in the family, as much as we wish to, our humble foundation does not have the financial means and volume of volunteers needed to help everyone at the same level, with our “grief week response”.
At the very least, however, we provide resources in hopes of helping families cope with the loss of a family member and navigate through the initial shock and lifelong grief. These resources are provided through our resource page. Here you will find things that we personally have found helpful…anecdotes, advice, counsel, inspirational items, and books; and we hope that they also help you through your grief journey. Realize that you are not alone. There are other grieving families just like yours, and we believe that your lost loved one is not completely gone, but rather still with you, watching over you.