New Hope understands
You're surrounded by people who understand.
Grief can feel like a lot to carry. At New Hope, you’re welcomed into a warm, peer-led circle of people who truly get it, where, together, healing begins and hope returns.
Our programs
Find the support that fits.
Our support groups are small, warm, and welcoming, more like a living room than a clinic. You’ll be surrounded by people who truly understand, guided by facilitators who have found healing themselves.
Adult Grief Support
A welcoming group for adults carrying any kind of loss, sudden or after a long illness. Most people find their place here.
Adults grieving a spouse, partner, parent, sibling, child, or friend
Suicide Loss Support
A dedicated, gentle space to heal after losing someone to suicide, surrounded by others who truly understand.
Adults grieving a death by suicide
Child Loss Support
For parents grieving the loss of a child of any age, held by others who know this grief from the inside.
Parents who have lost a child, teen, or adult child
Family Programs & Camp
Year-round family programming and our annual Family Camp, where children and parents grieve, play, and heal side by side.
Families and children grieving together
School & Student Support
Peer support groups brought right into schools, helping grieving students feel seen, supported, and understood.
Bereaved students in the Greater Long Beach area
New Hope for the Holidays
A welcoming group for adults carrying any kind of loss, sudden or after a long illness. Most people find their place here.
Anyone navigating the holidays after a loss
Gently, at your pace
What to expect at a New Hope group
A small
circle
8–12 people, so everyone is truly heard.
8 gentle
weeks
One evening a week, 90 minutes, at your own pace.
A home-like
space
Intimate and confidential, never clinical.
Led by people
who get it
Trained facilitators who have grieved themselves.
There is a $100 registration and materials fee, and scholarships are always available, so cost is never a barrier to getting support. To keep every circle confidential we ask people to register in advance rather than drop in. New Hope groups are peer support rather than one-on-one therapy; if you’d like individual counseling too, we’re glad to refer you to trusted local partners.
Reaching out is a brave,
hopeful first step.
We’ll reply within two to three business days to talk through the right group for you.