Pathways Programs

This group supports parents who have lost a child of any age.

Dates: Once yearly, six sessions; please check calendar or call for schedule
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Fees: $50
Sign-up: Registration required
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

PATHWAYS has developed presentations to help people learn how to help children through grief and loss, whether at home or at school. We offer programs to parent groups, in schools and in other settings.

Dates: Schedule
Time: Schedule
Location: On-site or at the PATHWAYS building at the Pathways Hospice Fort Collins location
Fees: Vary; non-profit rates available
Sign-up: Schedule
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

Designed for families who have experienced the death of a family member, this program offers support groups for children, teens and parents at the same time so that everyone in the family may conveniently attend the specialized support group they need.

Kids Grief Connection gives children ages seven to twelve, who have experienced the death of a loved one, help in understanding and expressing their feelings of loss.

Teens Grief Connection is open to teens grieving the death of a family member or friend. The group focuses on the unique issues of teenage grief in a safe setting among other bereaved teens.

Parents Grief Connection provides support and education to parents whose family is grieving a death loss.

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Sign-up: Registration required
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

HOPING provides education and support to parents who have experienced prenatal loss or the death of an infant. Meetings include time to share experiences as well discussion about grief, loss, relationship changes and resources.

Dates: Monthly; please check calendar or call for schedule
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Sign-up: Drop-in
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

A therapeutic riding retreat for bereaved children and teens, this program is a collaboration between of Pathways Hospice, Community Care for Northern Colorado and the Hearts & Horses Therapeutic Riding Center in Loveland. It helps participants explore grief through activities that will include the care of horses, horseback riding and counseling in a group setting facilitated by a hospice grief counselor. .

Dates: 1 day, yearly in summer; please check calendar or call for dates and times.
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Location: Hearts & Horses Therapeutic Riding Center
163 N. County Rd. 29, Loveland, CO 80537
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Sign-up: Registration required
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

Children naturally express their experiences, thoughts, problems or emotions through play. Play serves an important developmental function, assisting children with problem-solving, learning and expressing events present in their lives. Play therapy helps children cope with challenges they face. As a child plays, with a variety of toys, imaginary people or roles they may assume, the therapist witnesses or perhaps engages in the play. A trusting relationship is created as well as opportunities for a child to process their thoughts, questions or feelings. Play can assist in processing difficult events, such as death, in a manner that is not necessarily logical or verbal. The child begins to understand life events in a way that makes sense to them.

Dates: By appointment
Time: By appointment
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Fees:
Sign-up: By appointment
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

PATHWAYS provides private, individual counseling to adults, adolescents and children who are grieving or living with a serious illness. Counselors specializing in grief and loss provide counseling on a grief therapy model. Depending on your needs and interests we also provide specialized individual counseling through creative therapies as well as play and sand tray therapies for children.

Fees, Insurance & Medicare
Family members of Pathways Hospice patients receive counseling, without a charge, as part of the patient’s hospice benefit. For other community members, Pathways provides grief counseling on a sliding fee scale based on ability to pay. This enables people to receive the care they need, regardless of financial circumstance. Some insurance companies do include grief counseling in their coverage, but we are most likely “out of network” and the co-pay may be higher. We are a Medicare provider for counseling and it will cover grief counseling on a case-by-case basis

Dates: By appointment
Time: By appointment
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Fees: No fee for families of Pathways Hospice patients; sliding scale for other community members
Sign-up: By appointment
Contact: T: 970.663.3500

In this dynamic process, children use figurines, miniature objects, trays of sand and sometimes water to create worlds in the sand. These worlds can represent the unconscious or conscious life of a child. Because sand tray therapy is primarily a non-verbal medium, it can go beyond the reach of language to tell a story of loss to a caring and attentive grief counselor.

Dates: By appointment
Time: By appointment
Location:
Fees:
Sign-up: By appointment
Contact: T: 970.663.3500