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Date: 18th June 2011 Time: 9.00am – 2.30pm Venue: Grace College – Walcott Street University of Queensland, ST LUCIA Guest Speaker: Associate Professor Judith Murray – Bereaved parent, author and Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. Judith’s major themes of research have been in the area of reactions to bereavement and other situations of loss and the development of evaluation of interventions…

Our caring thoughts are with you all for Mothers’ Day Mothers Day can be an especially difficult day for bereaved Mums (and their families) because, on the one hand there are the efforts to acknowledge the happiness and celebration of it, but on the other there is the heartache and sorrow of being without one or more of our children. Those of you who have had your only child die—we feel so deeply for you, and to those mothers who…

LORRAINE GRENNAN Tweed Shire’s 2010 Citizen of the Year The Tweed’s official Australia Day Awards paid tribute to many Local heroes with inspired mother Lorraine Grennan named the Tweed Shire’s 2010 Citizen of the Year. Mrs Grennan was recognised for her ongoing work with the worldwide support group The Compassionate Friends for bereaved family members, an organisation which came to her aid when her son Michael died of…