Mourning Hope Grief Center

04/07/2026

A new time. The same space for connection.

Our next Adult Grief Support Group begins Thursday, May 7. This 8-week group will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

If you're an adult navigating life after the death of someone significant, we invite you to join us. There’s no right way to grieve—but being with others who understand can make the path feel a little less lonely.

Participation is free. Pre-registration is required, and participants are asked to attend all eight sessions.

Learn more or sign up: https://tinyurl.com/MH-groups

04/06/2026

With Hope in the Morning just ten days away, we are grateful to share appreciation for more of this year’s Companions of Hope. 💜

From new partners to those who have deepened their support—and those who continue with us year after year—each plays a meaningful role in making grief support accessible to our community.

Join us in thanking Baylor Evnen Wolfe & Tannehill, LLP, Ellen and Pat Beans, Black Hills Energy (), Mary and Doug Campbell, Cornhusker Bank (), Forvis Mazars US(), Julie Hill, Cheri Parent, and TMCO, Inc. ().

Together, you help ensure no one has to grieve alone.

Read more about the breakfast and view this year’s supporters:
https://www.mourninghope.org/supportus/him.html

04/05/2026

"Accepting your own grief as worthy of respect helps create a world where all loss is held as worthy." - Megan Devine

🖋Refuge In Grief ()

04/04/2026

Board of Trustees member Julie Smith teamed up with Gary McCown to prepare the wooden bases that will support the stepping stone centerpieces at this year’s Hope in the Morning breakfast.

We’re so grateful for the time, talent, and care that go into every detail—each piece coming together to create something meaningful with the breakfast now just around the corner. 💛

04/03/2026

Holding Hope returns for its final gathering of the 2025–2026 school year on April 15. 💛

For families who have participated in at least two Family Grief Support Group series, this monthly gathering offers a chance to reconnect, share time together, and continue walking the grief journey in community.

Join us for this evening of connection before we pause for the summer months.

Advanced registration is required: tinyurl.com/mh-holdinghope

04/02/2026

🔆Host Spotlight: Jack Mitchell

Helping guide this year’s Hope in the Morning breakfast is someone many in our community already know and appreciate—Jack Mitchell.

As event host, Jack will offer opening and closing reflections. A Lincoln native and Lincoln East graduate, he’s well known as the voice behind LNK Today with Jack & Friends () on 1400KLIN.

Before moving into broadcasting, Jack earned his law degree from the University of Nebraska and practiced civil litigation locally. Today, he’s known for his humor, thoughtful perspective on local news, and genuine support of community causes.

Many also recognize Jack for his “Walk of Shame” fundraisers across Lincoln—good-natured penance for making bad on-air weather predictions—which have raised meaningful support for local nonprofits, including Mourning Hope. It’s a fitting connection to this year’s Stepping Stones of Hope theme—showing up, taking steps forward, and supporting one another along the way.

We’re grateful to have Jack as part of this special morning.

Learn more about Jack and this year’s Hope in the Morning event:
https://www.mourninghope.org/.../hope-in-the-morning.html

04/01/2026

Connection matters—especially when it comes to mental health and su***de prevention.

On Sunday, April 19, the UNL Out of the Darkness Campus Walk invites our community to come together in support of su***de prevention efforts and to raise awareness around mental health. Hosted by the American Foundation for Su***de Prevention (), this event is part of a national movement engaging young people in the fight to prevent su***de and make mental health a priority.

When we show up, walk together, and start conversations, we help reduce stigma and remind one another that support is always within reach.

💜 Learn more or get involved:
https://afspwalks.donordrive.com/UNL

03/31/2026

🌟 Recognizing Our Ongoing Companions of Hope 🌟

There are some partners who have simply become part of this work—showing up year after year in support of grieving children, adults, and families.

As we continue recognizing this year’s Hope in the Morning sponsors, we’re grateful to highlight these ongoing Companions of Hope:

💜 Ameritas (), Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird () and Scott Baird, The Bare Family, Bryan Health (), Cancer Partners of Nebraska (), Pam Dinneen (.dinneen) and John Dinneen, Hausmann Construction (), The Kindler Hotel (), Olsson (), Pat Clinch Peace Project, Pinnacle Bank (), Security First Bank, Sinclair Hille Architects (), and Sheryl Laduke-Wells Fargo Advisors.

Thank you for continuing to stand alongside Mourning Hope and the families we serve. Your support helps ensure that grief support and resources remain available to anyone who needs them, at no cost.

Learn more about Hope in the Morning and view this year’s supporters:
https://www.mourninghope.org/supportus/him.html

03/30/2026

Grief.

Five quiet letters - yet it carries a weight that is anything but small.

03/29/2026

Grief and loss are universal—but the isolation they can bring doesn’t have to be.

In her powerful talk at Ignite Lincoln, Sara Sedlacek Yates shares how creating space for honest conversations about death and grief can help us show up for one another in more meaningful ways. Drawing from both her personal experience and her work as a bereavement coordinator at HoriSun Hospice and trained death doula, her message reflects something we believe deeply: connection is what helps carry us through grief.

We’re grateful to have Sara as part of the Mourning Hope community—as a group facilitator and Bereavement Council member—and to share this meaningful reminder that no one should have to grieve alone.

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Sara Yates addresses how grief and death, though universal experiences, often create profound loneliness and isolation. By learning to openly discuss death, ...

03/28/2026

Thanks to the generosity of Scheels (), Mourning Hope’s Emotion Commotion room has a new punching bag.🥊

After a death loss, feelings can be overwhelming. This space gives kids a safe outlet to release those big emotions — kicking, punching, knocking the bag down, or simply burning off steam.

Because this room gets so much use, the punching bag eventually wears out. We’re grateful to Scheels for once again stepping in to replace it so grieving children continue to have a healthy way to express their feelings as they move through their grief. 💜

03/27/2026

Thank you to the Women’s Inspiration Network (WIN) at Ameritas () for spending time with us during Women’s History Month. 💜

This group jumped in to help organize our art room—supporting a space that plays such an important role in how children and families process grief.

We loved seeing a familiar face return from last year, and were encouraged by the group’s thoughtful questions and interest in staying involved—from learning more about Camp Erin to exploring ways to support through a future supply drive.

We’re grateful for this growing partnership and all it makes possible.