My Nonprofit Reviews

Family Lives On truly believes in what they do. They take the pain and grief and sorrow that children have to learn to live with when they lose a parent -and they help the children then learn how to celebrate the parent they have lost through keeping beloved traditions alive. When you lose a parent at such a young age...that pain and loss never go away. You learn to just live with it. But there are the constant life-long reminders of how they are missing in your life- High School Father/Daughter dances, Donuts with Dad in grade school, family vacations, the empty seat at the dinner table. You hold onto the memories that you made with that parent as if they are gold. Family Lives On helps these kids keep those memories going and turns them into a positive feeling instead of a somber one. I know this as fact as my nieces lost their mom and have gone through the program. I was there and helped them celebrate their mother during the Family Lives On sponsored traditions. It WAS a celebration of her life... I also know the pain firsthand as I lost my father when I was 10 and would have loved to have had something like this to "Celebrate" my dad instead of having everyone tip toe around me and my siblings. It would have helped make the pain and everyday loss a little more bearable. So, I am not only a past participant in the Celebrations- I now work as a volunteer to try to make sure as many children as we can support- can smile at the memories of their parents instead of feel the deep sadness of the loss- even if it is just for a day. I love what Family Lives On does....