What About Remembering Me Center, Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Grief Support Program
The WARM Place is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) agency that provides bi-weekly peer-support groups for children and their families after the death of a loved one. Founded in 1989, The WARM Place has companioned over 43,000 children and their families along their grief journey. Our program, led by trained volunteers, provides a safe environment for children to express feelings and emotions as well as the opportunity to meet with children and families who are experiencing situations similar to their own. Families are never charged a fee for our services, there are no geographical limitations, and no time limits - families are welcome to participate as long as the children are receiving benefit from the program.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
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Grief Support Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
The number of children and caregivers who received direct support services from The WARM Place.
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The primary goal of The WARM Place is to companion children and their surviving family members along their grief journey and help them manage the overwhelming feelings of grief to reduce the likelihood of long-term physical and mental health problems, and ultimately, to restore their joy of life.
The staff at The WARM Place is dedicated to continuous improvement of our programming through the collection of data from our participants' surveys which are administered annually. The WARM Place has identified six key outcomes for which the success of the program is measured.
These outcomes include:
1. Increase the feeling of support in a family's grief journey
2. Decrease the feeling of loneliness in a family's grief journey
3. Teach families coping skills to deal with the death
4. Increase the child's ability to appropriately express feelings about the death
5. Decrease the effect of the death on a child's school performance
6. Increase the family's ability to talk about the death
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
After a death, a parent or guardian schedules an intake appointment to visit with one of our licensed mental health professionals who serves the roll of the Group Director" for the group nights. During the appointment, the family meets with a Group Director to discuss the death of their loved one and its impact on the children. The Group Director explains our program, gives the family a tour of our agency, conducts a mock group session, and then assigns them to a group. Our program is conducted out of a unique facility that was specifically designed to resemble a home." This was done with the purpose of creating a warm and caring environment that promotes open and relaxed conversation among families and children.
In-person group nights begin at 6:15pm with a potluck dinner for our families and volunteer group facilitators. This gives the children and families an opportunity to get to know others who share a similar loss. At 7:00pm, following the potluck dinner, the children break into smaller age-specific groups, which are open-ended and meet throughout the year. Trained volunteer facilitators, under the supervision of the Group Director, lead the discussions and direct activities designed to help participants express their emotions constructively. Drawing, painting, journaling, and discussions may all be part of a group session. These activities help the children express feelings they are often uncomfortable discussing in other settings.
While the children meet in their age-specific groups, the parents and caregivers meet together with the Group Director and a volunteer group facilitator. They also participate in discussion and writing activities to process through their grief and learn tools to better care for their grieving child.
After each group session, the facilitators and their assigned Group Director debrief to allow the facilitators the opportunity to process the events of the evening, to provide feedback to the Group Director regarding the effectiveness of the group activities, and to address any concerns. Group Directors serves as a sounding board for facilitators so that they can maintain a healthy perspective in their daily lives and avoid internalizing the difficult experiences of the children they facilitate.
In addition to in-person groups, The WARM Place offers virtual groups for families on the wait list and families who are more comfortable meeting virtually.
Ultimately, our objective is to teach children coping skills that will aid them throughout life, to provide support, to reduce the family's sense of isolation, and to open up healthy communication within the family.
To maximize our impact, The WARM Place utilizes an extensive volunteer network. In 2022, 328 volunteers donated their time and expertise by serving as trained group facilitators, houseparents, family night volunteers, event committee volunteers, and board members. Conservative estimates value these 10,143 donated hours at $303,783.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback
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What About Remembering Me Center, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 01/23/2024
Mr. Jeremy Raines
RMP Industrial Supply Inc.
Term: 2019 - 2025
Susan Adams
Huselton Morgan & Maultsby, PC
Gordon Appleman
Thompson & Knight LLP
Peggy Bohme
Retired - The WARM Place
D. Russ Brown
Retired - Philips Lighting
Kate Casey
Autumn Ridge Counseling & Wellness
John Fonvielle
Retired - Alcon Laboratories, Inc.
Raj R. Gandhi, MD, PhD
Acclaim Physician Group
Russell Green
Merrill Lynch
Justin M. Lauderdale
Admire Sanford & Lauderdale, PLLC
Shirley Montero
Retired - The WARM Place
Nick Murray
Retired - Alcon Laboratories, Inc.
Roger Nober
BNSF Railway Company
Joseph P. Regan
Jackson Walker LLP
Joe Greenhill
Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP
Kimberly Brown
Cook Children's Medical Center
Keirah Burrell
Hewlett Packard
James Delaune
Crestline Investors
Emery Harbuck
Mr. Duct Cleaner of Fort Worth
Jessica LeFlore
Think Differently Counseling
Amy Robichaux
Community Volunteer
Micah Woodcook
The Perimeter Group
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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