Families Helping Families

Compassionate Workplace

It is critical to have supportive environments following a loss. To ensure this need can be met, Families Helping Families (FHF) provides education for organizations via the Compassionate Workplace program.

The Compassionate Workplace provides consultation and education for employees and co-workers to work together to facilitate a healthy and successful transition back to work.

A Compassionate Workplace supports grieving employees in many ways including:

* Understanding the need for grief support services and making them available to employees.
* Extending customary 3-day Bereavement Leave.
* Lightening an employee’s workload to facilitate gradual re-entry.
* Encouraging “flexible hours”, “job sharing” and other temporary accommodations.
* Extending bereavement leave to “special friends” whose loss is equally devastating.

If you have suffered a loss, or someone in your organization has, and you want to make your workplace a compassionate workplace, please contact us.

Compassionate Workplace is a fee based program. Fee’s based on sliding scale.