Courageous Parents Network: Decade of helping parents cope with grief and loss

Courageous Parents Network: Decade of helping parents cope with grief and loss
Fig City News, by Julie M. Cohen; 1/9/24
“The reason grief can be so hard is because it can feel so isolating,” Julia Ong reflected while discussing the 2021 death of her younger child, Avery. Even before their daughter died, the Newton resident and her husband, Jordan Bray, experienced the crushing weight of grief upon learning the baby’s diagnosis. They soon learned about a Newton-based nonprofit, the Courageous Parents Network (CPN). The organization, which in 2024 is marking its 10th anniversary, “orients and empowers parents and others caring for children with serious medical conditions, by providing resources and tools that reflect the experience and perspective of other families and clinicians,” according to its website ...
Editor's note: Also see the Courageous Parents Network website: https://courageousparentsnetwork.org/.