Jenny's Hope is a grief center for children and their families. Jenny's Hope provides excellent tools to help young children learn to walk out the difficult road following the death of someone they value and love. We want our children to have the very best resources available.
Jenny's Hope was birthed when our Executive Director's 31 year old daughter, Jenny Bizaillion, died from sepsis in February, 2010. Jenny had a precious 9 year old daughter left to sort through the confusion and pain of grief. Jenny loved children and she clung to the concept of Hope. Jenny's Hope opened in September, 2018 - FIVE YEARS AGO!
Happy Birthday to Jenny's Hope!
We are grateful for our ministry!
During the last couple of school years, Jenny's Hope has repetitively been called to help school districts following a student or a teacher death. We facilitate walking the staff through the tools and techniques that can be helpful for grieving children. A year ago several members of our staff arrived at a small elementary school in our community following the sudden death of an extremely loved second grader. Her mother was a staff member and several students witnessed the tragedy. One of the teachers told us that she didn't want to get out of her car that morning because she knew she would have to face a group of young children with news that would break their tender hearts. She expressed the relief that flooded her when she found out Jenny's Hope was already in the building.
When we go into these schools, we take resources and we spend time, lots of time, teaching, answering questions, offering support. There is not an Independent School District in Texas set up to pay a 501c3 for these services. We will continue to offer help because we know how to enter into this difficult territory. We will continue because we love children and want to offer the best help available for them to learn to walk out the hardest days of living. We are providing tools that these students and teachers will use for the rest of their lives.
Whether in our small groups or in our schools, ALL of the services at Jenny's Hope are provided free to grieving families. We need your donations to continue to take are of these broken-hearted children. Following our groups last spring, one father stayed behind to thank his facilitators, saying "We are grateful for Jenny's Hope. Now our children are living again."
Jenny's Hope is under the umbrella of Wise County Christian Counseling which is a 501c3, a nonprofit counseling center that offers professional counseling on a sliding scale basis. We do not believe that emotional or relational pain knows economic boundaries. We do not refuse services for financial reasons. Wise CCC does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Our clients are as young as three years old and we've had clients in their nineties.
We have counselors trained in play therapy, mindfulness, relationship skills, a variety of marriage therapies, EMDR, and other trauma work.
We are currently serving children from over 29 school districts. This massive range is based on the quality of our staff and our affordability.
We are now providing counseling and grief services in Spanish too.
Since 2006 WCCC has provided professional counseling for children, teens, and adults struggling with things like depression, anxiety, marriages, grief, relationships, and other concerns. Clients range from preschoolers to senior adults. While people experience a wide variety of pain and struggle, we believe that basic human need is the same. We all want hope for the journey, love in safe relationships, and compassion that encourages us to find bravery and courage. WCCC offers tools to help people experience love and belonging.
Under the umbrella of Wise County Christian Counseling, Jenny's Hope opened its doors in 2018 for grieving children and their families. We host nine weekly group sessions, twice a year where our children explore grief language and find ways to incorporate hard emotions into daily life. We also host a variety of grief events when these sessions are not going on.
Jenny's Hope, our grief center, is in need of financial resources to update our supplies and materials so our grieving children can have the best tools to build the emotional and spiritual muscle required to carry the heaviness of grief.
Our team needs to gather kits filled with supplies to take into schools following the death of student or teacher. These resources will be prepared and ready to go on a moment's notice.
We need workbooks and supplies for groups. Another way we are meeting the growing need for counseling at Wise CCC is through group work. We believe in the power of groups - the shared empathy, shared compassion, shared vulnerability, and shared ownership. A large portion of our donations from NTGD will be used to provide the most helpful workbooks and supplies.
Please help us as we walk with the grieving and broken-hearted children among us!
Wise CCC does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Organization name
Wise County Christian Counseling & Jenny's Hope
Causes
Mental/Behavioral Health, Seniors, Youth & Children
Operating Budget
$500,000 - $999,999
Counties Served
Wise
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
1650 S FM 51 Ste 400