Tides Nights
Tides Nights is a fundamental program at Tides. We meet on the first and third Thursday of each month, September–May, at the Mount Nittany Middle School. At 6:00 p.m., everyone gathers to enjoy pizza and get to know the other group members. From 6:30-7:30 p.m., children, adolescents, and adults break into individual peer support groups.
School Programming
Tides is supporting students throughout Centre Region by facilitating school-based grief peer support groups, offering grief specific guidance to counselors, providing grief toolboxes for counselors, and distributing age appropriate and loss specific Bags of Hope to students who recently experienced a death.
Crisis Support
Tides is one of the few organizations in Centre County specifically designed for community crisis support in response to a death. This means that when a group of individuals experience a shared loss we are able to work with the group to provide assistance in addressing and working through the trauma of the death. We have trained staff with over 30 years of experience and through this program, we have been able to serve several community groups to help children, teens, and adults through their individual response to grief.
In need of urgent support? Contact us (814) 692-2233 or evelyn.wald@tidesprogram.org.
Grief Education and Training
Grief education is an important part of the resources provided through Tides. We offer an annual event, Grief Matters, which is a one-day seminar designed to educate school counselors, psychologists, and other interested attendees on how to effectively support grieving individuals. In addition, we offer individualized grief training sessions by request. These grief support trainings are typically hosted in local schools for counselors and mental health professionals, or other local nonprofit organizations. Grief Matters and the grief support trainings typically cover; common grief responses of children, teens, and adults; age-appropriate activities; appropriate things to say or avoid saying; and the impact a positive support system has on someone who is grieving.
Interested in learning more about how to support others through their grief journey? Contact us at (814) 692-2233 or evelyn.wald@tidesprogram.org.