Aetna Group Insurance Provides Grant to Support the Center for Grieving Children; Funds Will Support National Education for Grief and Loss Training.Business Editors PORTLAND, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2004 Aetna Group Insurance and the Aetna Foundation have awarded a $15,000 grant to The Center for Grieving grieving Mourning, see there Children (The Center) in Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, which is at the mouth of the Fore River and part . The grant will provide support for Project Beacon Beacon, city (1990 pop. 13,243), Dutchess co., SE N.Y., on the E bank of the Hudson River; settled 1663, inc. in 1913 when Fishkill Landing and Matteawan villages were united. , an initiative to provide national training to address the needs of children and families facing grief, change, and loss. "Aetna is proud of its long history of solid corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while and strongly believes in giving back to the communities where our employees and customers live and work," said Cathy Liston, head of Aetna's Portland Maine Disability Service Center. "As a life insurance provider, Aetna continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. seeks services that will help our beneficiaries cope with the loss of a loved one. We are supportive of The Center because they are providing much-needed grief support and assistance to children and families." Aetna's grant will be used nationally to support volunteer-based groups which will help children dealing with grief and loss related to bereavement Bereavement Definition Bereavement refers to the period of mourning and grief following the death of a beloved person or animal. The English word bereavement , life-threatening illness and other transitions. Project Beacon includes a Peer Support Training Center, remote training, and peer support training materials, which The Center will use to train new grief support programs. In addition, Aetna's grant will provide health and education professionals and others with access to information on how to support children who are grieving or suffering loss. "With Aetna's grant, we are able to inspire others who seek to create or enhance their programs to help children on a national level," said Anne Lynch, executive director for The Center. "This grant paves the way for continuing Project Beacon, which supports children and their families who are grieving the death or coping with the life-threatening illness of a family member or friend or any situation that involves loss. Through sharing a common experience with other children and adults, and facilitated by volunteers, children are given life-long tools for facing change, transition, and loss." About Aetna Aetna is one of the nation's leading providers of health care, dental, pharmacy pharmacy, art of compounding and dispensing drugs and medication. The term is also applied to an establishment used for such purposes. Until modern times medication was prepared and dispensed by the physician himself. In the 18th cent. , group life, disability and long-term care long-term care (LTC), n the provision of medical, social, and personal care services on a recurring or continuing basis to persons with chronic physical or mental disorders. benefits, serving approximately 13.0 million medical members, 10.9 million dental members, 7.4 million pharmacy members and 12.3 million group insurance customers, as of December 31, 2003. The company has expansive nationwide networks of more than 600,000 health care services providers, including over 362,000 primary care and specialist physicians and 3,626 hospitals. For more information about Aetna, please visit the company's web site at www.aetna.com. About The Center The Center for Grieving Children was founded in 1987 to provide loving support to grieving children, teens, families, and the community through peer support, outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. , and education. The Center has developed a volunteer-based, peer support model for use in groups dealing with grief and loss related to bereavement and life-threatening illness. The Center also provides training and education to other grief support programs across the country, educators, and professionals in how to support children and families in time of grief through Project Beacon, launched in 2003 with funding from the Aetna Foundation. |
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