Community Services

Whether its been months or years since your loss, Mt. Hood Hospice offers support groups and education for caregivers and after a death.

Help is Here

Dealing with and living with a loved one’s death is difficult. Whether it has been months or years since your loss, Mt. Hood Hospice offers support groups and education for bereavement. Mt. Hood Hospice offers support groups for family members and friends witnessing the declining health of an important adult and for adults  grieving a loss due to a death. These groups can provide a supportive environment to help you develop coping skills. See below for a list of groups.

Support Groups

• Facebook Groups
• Living With Grief
• Caregivers Together
• Grief and Complicated Circumstances
• Individualized Support Groups

Outreach and Education – Speaker’s Bureau

We come to you! Whether it be a senior center, fraternal organization, church, residential facility, community center, school, or other organization, it is important for Mt. Hood Hospice to educate the public with:

• Hospice: the what, where, and when
• Advance Care Planning
• Loss and Grief presentations and trainings

Laura Lirette, Director of Bereavement Services

Laura Lirette previously worked in affordable housing, parent education and trauma recovery with marginalized populations. She also worked at a different hospice and in the Neurotrauma ICU at a local hospital. She has taught in public schools and has a Masters in Education and a Masters in Social Work. She is currently the bereavement coordinator at Mt Hood Hospice in Sandy, Oregon and has her Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) license.