Helping Parents Heal, Inc

The role and purpose of the Board Member is to offer friendship, understanding, and hope to families that have experienced the passing of a child and to operate as a liaison for Helping Parents Heal, Inc.

One of the unique aspects of HPH relates to the open discussion of spiritual experiences and afterlife evidence. This discussion can be tremendously healing because it addresses the need for hope that bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings often experience.

There is no religious affiliation, and Helping Parents Heal, Inc. charges no individual membership fees or dues. All family members who have experienced the passing of a child are welcome. Founded in Arizona in 2009, Helping Parents Heal, Inc. became a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit incorporation in 2012. Under that provision, the organization's more than 175 local Affiliate Groups throughout the US, Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Norway, South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand also operate. We currently have over 30,000 parents and siblings who belong to Helping Parents Heal, Inc.

We offer support through resources that are available free of charge, including our Affiliate Meetings, both by Zoom and in person, our 34 volunteer Caring Listeners, who speak ten different languages, our Main Group Zoom meetings with experts from the Grief and Afterlife Communities, which are posted to YouTube (we currently have over 520 videos available), our individual Facebook Groups for each Affiliate Group, our list of recommended reading as well as recommended Providers, and our bi-annual Helping Parents Heal Conference, to which 900 parents attended in 2022. We provided 110 scholarships to this event and plan to donate even more at our 2024 Third Helping Parents Heal Conference. Helping Parents Heal has also published a book to help parents move forward and heal. It is available on Amazon, entitled 'Life to Afterlife: Helping Parents Heal - the Book.' We give it away for free through Amazon Kindle every three months.

Our most important goal as we move forward is to raise awareness for our group through advertising and marketing to allow more parents and families to know about the free resources and peer support available through Helping Parents Heal. Our organization is currently 100% volunteer-based, and we would like to research grants to provide funding for administrative roles, advertising and marketing, and diversity outreach.

Helping Parents Heal offers a wide variety of ongoing Zoom meetings to allow parents and families to move forward and heal. This is done through an underlying belief that our loved ones in spirit are happy, healthy and whole, and that they want us to be so as well. We hold Affiliate meetings, group meditations, guided meditations, Reiki sessions, Music Therapy, Gentle Yoga, Yoga Nidra, one-on-one discussions with the Caring Listeners, and many other modalities to help parents their own preferred way of healing. We also have a strong Zoom presence for the main group, and hold at least 2 meetings a week. These meetings are recorded uploaded to Youtube so that people throughout the world can watch and benefit. We currently have over 520 YouTube videos with experts from the Grief and Afterlife communities. All of our resources are free of charge.

We also hold a Helping Parents Heal Conference once every two years. The first conference was held at the Embassy Suites in Scottsdale in April 2018, and had room for 500 parents and 40 speakers. It sold out immediately. We gave away 50 scholarships at that conference.

The second Helping Parents Heal conference was held at the Sheraton Grand Wild Horse Pass in Phoenix in August 2022 and had room for 900 parents and 44 speakers. It sold out immediately. We gave away 110 scholarships.

Our third Helping Parents Heal conference will be held at the Sheraton Grand Wild Horse Pass in Phoenix in August 2024 and we will have room for 1000 parents and 50 speakers. We expect it to sell out immediately.