These groups will employ evidence-based and widely accepted bereavement and grief education and group process to offer support in coming to terms and making meaning of loss.

Register: bit.ly/USCGrief

Every two weeks, September 1 - December 8, 2021

5:30 - 7:00 PM @ URC205

WEDNESDAY - Grief & Loss During COVID19

Many students will have experienced one or more losses during the periods of pandemic shutdown and social distancing. All losses during this period are COVID related losses whether or not the virus was the direct cause of their deaths or loss of health status.

Facilitated by Mark Miller, Psy.D, USC Campus Wellbeing & Education

THURSDAY - Grieving Lost Time & Potential

This group employs a wider definition of COVID related losses. In this safe and supportive forum, losses of any type will be shared, held, and honored by the group. Losses shared in this group might include loss of a year of friendships, independence/ maturation, advancement in studies, identity expression and development (gender, sexuality, etc.), graduation ceremonies job and internship experiences, dating, Greeklife, shared religious expression and practice, travel, missing family and friends’ births, deaths, engagements, weddings, etc.

Facilitated by Vanessa Gomez Brake, M.Div., USC Office of Religious & Spiritual Life