The Centre for Living with Dying program provides emotional support to adults and children facing life-threatening illness or the trauma of having a loved one die. The Centre also provides crisis intervention services and broad-based educational programs on grief and loss. Whether clients choose individual counseling or grief groups, they are gently given tools for coping with loss and trauma. The Centre also provides family counseling and group counseling for children, teens and adults.  For more information please click here.

Special services include:

• Healing Heart Youth Program
• Bay Area CISM Team (Critical Incident Stress Management for emergency responders and healthcare professionals)
• Circle of Care for people living with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones
• Crisis Intervention on site at schools, businesses and community organizations
• Community Education dealing with issues related to grief, death and trauma
• School Outreach Counseling
• Adult Services

Program Profile:

• Served over 130,000 clients since 1976
• Trained volunteers and interns
• Multi-cultural and multi-lingual
• Educational programs on grief and loss
• Crisis Intervention services
• Deep commitment to a difficult mission
• Support provided as long as the need exists
• Unique counseling offering a safe, nurturing environment for clients throughout the entire Bay Area

The Centre program is certified to provide law enforcement training, nurse training, clergy and mental health professional education and a variety of support groups, including survivors of suicide, survivors of homicide, breast cancer support, gay and lesbian grief support, parental grief and neo-natal grief.

For the full training schedule or more information on services, click here. 

Or call (408) 243-0222 or email thecentre@billwilsoncenter.org