National MISS Foundation
1. The MISSing Angels Nov/Dec 2004 newsletter is now available online! Don't MISS this fantastic issue, that includes features such as:
-Children's grief art
-"Seasons" memoir
to the holidays and grief
-Family stories
-Memorials:
http://www.missfoundation.org/newsletter/index.html
2. Welcome new volunteers
and board members:
http://www.missfoundation.org/bios/index.html
3. The MISS Foundation's 2005 Passages Conference Registration is now available: http://www.missfoundation.org/conference/MISS2005_reg.pdf
4. You can donate
to the MISS Foundation
here:
http://www.missfoundation.org/About_MISS/donate.html
More than $.93 of every $1.00
goes directly to our Family Outreach
Programs and Services. Memorial
cards are sent and donations
are also acknowledged in the
newsletter.
5. Learn about GBS
testing and other high
risk factors on the Baby's
Breath site:
http://www.missfoundation.org/babysbreath/index.html
6. A safe place
for bereaved fathers only-
meet Gregg Carder, father
of Alesia Dawn. His precious
daughter died suddenly
in her sleep at age 14
and he has helped many
many other fathers through
the MISS Foundation:
http://www.missfoundation.org/family/dads/index.html
7. Stillbirth takes
the lives of more children
than all infant death causes
combined! In an effort
to learn more about childbirth
and stillbirth, the MISS
Foundation's research,
the MOMS Study, is in need
of many more women who
have experienced stillbirth
and live birth to respond
to the research. Please
recruit family, friends,
and neighbors to this site:
http://www.momstudy.com .
The MISS
Foundation's committee, MISS Task
Force, Mission for Infant Survival
and Stillbirth, charged with education,
reduction, and reform, has nominated
Mary Geitz as its director. Ms
Geitz has seven years of experience
in working with families experiencing
stillbirth and has committed to
a broad range of parental bereavement
services for all child death. Her
main objectives for the program
include: a)
Supporting the MOMS Study and future
research related to stillbirth
and perinatal mortality. b)
Educating women and professionals
on risk reduction factors. c)
Advocacy and reform in public health
at the states and federal level,
including increased funding for
research and bereavement services.
To contact Ms Geitz about the Mission
for Infant Survival and Stillbirth
Task Force, please contact mary@missfoundation.org or
call 630.546.9543.
WA
MISS Chapter, Washington
State
Wanted to let you know the latest information about support thru WA MISS. Our monthly West Seattle meetings at Delridge Library are on hold for now. Those meetings may start up again in 2005, and we will let you know when things are rescheduled. In the meantime, here's our scheduled NCMD event info and updates on all the on-going outreach contacts. Please note that some of our outreach contacts are available to meet one on one as needed during this monthly-meeting-hiatus, so just ask, okay? And outreach contacts are always available via email and phone. Here's the update info:
Cafe Luna, Vashon Island, Sunday, December 12th, 2004, 6 to 7pm National Children's Memorial Day - FREE event. Stories, music, and candlelighting for support and inspiration... Bereaved parents of any gender, race, religion -- ALL -- are welcome. Feel free to bring momentos, photos, memory albums or other touchstones that you might like to display on our "remembrance" table. We'll have some basics available like water, kleenex, and memorial candles available for free. The Cafe will be open for purchases of tea, coffee, or other edibles. This event will host music, a storyteller, a henna artist offering free memorial designs, facilitated computer internet searches for seeking online resources, and an art table in the first half hour or so of the event. The second half hour will be the candlelighting ceremony. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to be in touch with us! kara@missfoundation.org
On-going
Outreach in WA State
Vashon
Island peer-to-peer
support is offered
throughout the month.
Please call Kara for
information 206-251-6706
(cell) or email Kara
at kara@missfoundation.org with
your query.
West Seattle peer-to-peer support offered throughout the month. Please contact Krista at krista@missfoundation.org for support and outreach information.
Eastern WA peer-to-peer outreach is offered throughout the month. Sarah can give you information about local contacts and outreach materials if you email her with your query at sarah@missfoundation.org.
Southern WA Please email kara@missfoundation.org if you are outside the Seattle area of WA and looking for support. We do have outreach & local support information for the Southern WA area.
