Kara Videos
- An overview of Kara's services (PC,
Mac)
- Three clients share about their loss and experience with Kara
(PC, Mac)
- Youth & Family Program (PC,
Mac)
- Kara's Camp
Erin
Monthly News Updates (Sign
Up for Kara News!)
Newsletters (Sign
Up for Kara News!)
Kara publishes a semi-annual newsletter called "Reaching Out",
that includes information about upcoming events, volunteer activities,
training dates, inspirational stories of how Kara's dedicated volunteers
and staff have helped those in grief, and information on how you
may get involved in Kara's Mission.
Here is our most recent Spring
2010 newsletter. The newsletters are in pdf form. If you
need a viewer, one can be downloaded for free from the Adobe
web site.
Archives
Kara In The News
The
art of remembrance:
At Kara, people pay tribute to loved ones by creating memorial quilts
Palo Alto Weekly Article by Rebecca Wallace, March 26, 2010
Kara's
Summer Celebration
Palo Alto Daily News: 8/1/09
Moms
channel grief into book to help others
The Mercury News, By Patty Fisher: 06/19/2008
Kara
Offers Grief Support around the Bay Area
Santa Clara Weekly article, By Cynthia Cheng, June 4, 2008
Kara's 2006 At Your
Own Pace Walk
Kara 2006 Candlelight
Service: Our Town - Remembering Loved Ones
Palo Alto Weekly Article by Don Kazak, December 20, 2006
San
Jose Mercury News article, by Loretta Green, August 6, 2000
(PDF file)
San
Jose Mercury News article, by Loretta Green, July 30, 2000 (PDF
file)
"Space
wars: squeezing the nonprofits", Palo Alto Weekly, by Charlie
Breitrose, July 19, 2000 (PDF file)
"Family
partners in grief", Los Altos Town Crier, by Joanne Griffith
Domingue, July 21, 1999 (PDF file)
"A
safe place for grief", Palo Alto Weekly, by Pamela Otheiser,
August 3, 1994 (PDF file)
"When
a Loved One Dies", Palo Alto Weekly, sidebar, August 3, 1994
(PDF file)
Articles
The Journey Through
Grief: The Mourner's Six "Reconciliation Needs"
by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
NEGATIVE
VIEWS OF GRIEF COUNSELING ARE NOT SUBSTANTIATED BY THE RESEARCH,
EXPERTS SAY - APA Press Release July 29, 2007
What
Has Become of Grief Counseling? An Evaluation of the Empirical Foundations
of the New Pessimism. Dale G. Larson and William T. Hoyt (PDF
file)
Contact
Us
457 Kingsley Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
650-321-5272
Office hours are M-Th 9AM to 4PM, Fr 9AM to 1PM
Pacific time.
Here is a map
to our office.
Kara is the Gothic root of the word "care."
It means to reach out, to care, to lament, to grieve with.
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