Events & Happenings
Compassionate Connections:
Good Grief Meals
BURKE COUNTY SERVICE AREA
March 5, 2025
3:00 p.m.
Las Salsas, 2113 S. Sterling St., Morganton, NC
HIGH COUNTRY SERVICE AREA
March 5, 2025
3:00 p.m.
Dos Amigos,187 New Market Centre, Boone, NC
CALDWELL COUNTY SERVICE AREA
March 6, 2025
3:00 p.m.
JD's Smokehouse, 2731 Morganton Blvd., SW, Lenoir, NC
The Good Grief Meal is sponsored through Ashewood Grief and Counseling Services, grief support services of AMOREM, and is one of many opportunities offered to help individuals of all ages and families cope with the loss of people they love. The Good Grief Meal is a time of fellowship and socialization for individuals who are grieving. AMOREM reserves meeting space and participants are responsible for the cost of their own meal. Locations and times are subject to change. Please verify before attendance. Contact Katie Pekman at kpekman@amoremsupport.org for Burke Service Area, Nichole Annas at nannas@amoremsupport.org for Caldwell Service Area and High Country Service Areas. You may also call 828.754.0101 with any questions.
Adult Volunteer Training
March 4 & 6, 2025
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
AMOREM Palliative Care Center
274 Archie Carroll Road, Boone, NC
March 10 & 12, 2025
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
McCreary Family Professional Center
526 Pine Mountain Road, Hudson, NC
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference? Do you have the compassionate spirit needed to be a companion for someone’s journey? AMOREM is hosting two opportunities for a two-day training session in October for adults who are interested in becoming hospice volunteers.
An array of topics will be covered to help prepare attendees to become successful volunteers. Participants will learn about the strong community history and commitment of AMOREM, the physical, spiritual, and psychosocial issues hospice patients face, and much more from AMOREM's staff of end-of-life care experts.
Currently, there is a need for volunteers to provide companionship to patients in the patient’s homes or long-term-care facilities. Other specific needs include volunteers who can provide transportation to doctors’ appointments and shopping excursions for patients, etc., and veterans to visit and make Veterans Honoring Veterans presentations to patients who are veterans.
Attendance is required at each session and meals will be provided. For more information or to register for the March 2025 adult volunteer training opportunity, contact us at 828.754.0101 or contact Cyndi Akins at cakins@amoremsupport.org.
Good Mourning Children's Grief Camp
BOONE CAMPUS
Saturday, March 15, 2025
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
274 Archie Carroll Road, Boone, NC
HUDSON CAMPUS
Saturday, March 29, 2025
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
526 Pine Mountain Road, Hudson, NC
AMOREM offers two opportunities to help grieving children. We may not recognize their grief because children express grief differently from adults. When children experience death, they may think they are the only ones in the world who have ever lost a mom, dad, grandparent or other loved one. At Good Mourning Children’s Grief Camp, children will learn that they are not alone, their feelings are normal, and it is okay to remember their loved ones.
AMOREM’s annual Good Mourning Children’s Grief Camp will be on Saturday, March 15, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 274 Archie Carroll Road, Boone, NC, and on Saturday, March 29, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 526 Pine Mountain Road, Hudson, NC. For more than 20 years, children ages six through 12 who are grieving the loss of a loved one have been invited to spend a day devoted to remembering and healing through grief related activities. Through age-appropriate activities, children will gain a better understanding of grief and realize they are not alone. As they talk, draw, write, listen, and laugh, children can find the healing tools they need.
Good Mourning Children’s Grief Camp, presented by Ashewood Grief Support Services, is provided at no cost to participants due to the generosity and support of the community, and is facilitated by AMOREM staff and specially trained adult and teen volunteers. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Ashewood Grief Support Services, grief support care of AMOREM, helps individuals of all ages and their families cope with the loss of people they love. Grief support services are provided at no cost to the community, even to those with no affiliation with hospice services. For more information, or to register for grief camp, contact Director of Grief Services Kimberly Setzer, MSW, LCSW at 828.754.0101, email ksetzer@amoremsupport.org, or visit www.amoremsupport.org. Download registration form here.