GROWW offers many areas where the bereaved can share experiences with their peers. The success of GROWW's interactive environment is the number of men, women and children who move on and the numbers who remain to volunteer their support to the newly bereaved.
GROWW's most prominent attribute is the provision of chatrooms. The "chat format" is an interactive area for discourse and conversations where bereaved discuss and address issues relative to their loss. GROWW maintains proprietary rooms for this activity on its website and provides rooms for specific issues such as loss of child, loss due to drunk driving, loss of parent, loss of spouse and a number of other specialty rooms. An initiation room known as Grief Recovery is the primary source of information gathering. An entrant may remain here and/or share his specific loss and be further directed to a "Branch" room, all of which are hosted and some with password security.
GROWW is staffed primarily by volunteers who originally came to GROWW looking for support. Many members remain with GROWW as Hosts who augment their healing by helping others. The sharing of experience, strength and hope among peers is a proven remedy to recovery.
The success of GROWW cannot be measured simply by the current membership of thousands but the many more who have moved on.
Measurements of success in the pursuit of grief recovery are impossible to discover especially when the covenant of anonymity is supported. Our success stories can be found in the message boards of the website, (especially Email to Heaven) and the numerous sites on the internet who choose to link to GROWW. Corporations, Union shops and associations are welcome to bring their bereaved to GROWW to assist in the grieving process and the return to productivity.
Services rendered by GROWW are free. Their "dues" have been paid.
GROWW offers hope that there is recovery from grief. This hope offers strength to become
the person that now exists after the loss. The strength to communicate with others that have understanding of the pain and reach out is a giving and acceptance that let's us grow.
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