Bereavement Support Groups 
Carbondale, Marian Community Hospital
For information call 281-1000
Clarks Summit, Our Lady of the Snows Parish
First Wednesday of each month, 10:00 A.M.
Every other Sunday 2 P.M.
Convenes at Our Lady of Snows Parish Center (301 S State Street/US 6 & 11, church lower level)
Registration not required; for information call 586-1741 and ask for Nettie Goldate.
Mountaintop, St. Jude Parish
May and November series
For information contact the parish office, 474-6315
Pittston, Parish Community of St. Casimir, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Joseph
Healing Hearts
Tuesday evenings, May & June, 7:00 P.M.
Tuesday evenings, September & October, 7:00 P.M.
Convenes in the Parish Dining Room
For information, call 654-0053
Pocono Pines, St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish
Second Wednesday of every month, 9 A.M.
Convenes in Our Lady of the Lake Hall, lower level of the Church
For information, call 646-6424 (weekdays) or 839-9346 (evenings).
Wilkes-Barre, Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish
Annual series in November
For information, contact the parish office at 824-7832.
Bereavement support for parents
Our Lady of the Snows, Clarks Summit
Contact Susan Brier, 586-2162
Individual or marriage counseling offered through Catholic Social Services. Ask your pastor or the Office for Parish Life for the name of a Catholic counselor in private practice.
Special Assistance
Catholic Social Services - For information about individual, marriage or family counseling, adoption, financial assistance and other services, call 822-7118 (Wilkes-Barre) or 207-2283 (Scranton) or click on Catholic Social Services.
Victim Assistance – The role of the Victim Assistance Coordinator is to provide, directly and through others, for the immediate pastoral care of persons who claim to have been sexually abused when they were minors by a priest or deacon. The coordinator is also charged with informing those who have suffered such abuse that the diocese stands ready to assist them. For more information, you can contact: Joan Holmes, Victim Assistance Coordinator, 344-5216
Domestic Violence – “When I Call For Help” is the US Bishops’ message regarding domestic violence, including advice for battered women.
Post-abortion support: Project Rachel www.hopeafterabortion.org and Rachel’s Vineyard diocesan retreat
Contact: Catholic Social Services
Denise Rowinski Mengak, Coordinator, 822-7118
Ed Casey, Coordinator, 207-2283
