Contact Person: Shauna Libsack, Operations Director or Lindsey Wimmer, Executive Director

Email: shauna@starlegacyfoundation.org, lindsey@starlegacyfoundation.org

Phone Number: 952-715-7731, ext 701 for Shauna, Ext 700 for Lindsey

Description of Services:

*Grief Support Line - 952-715-7731, Ext 1 - Staffed by perinatal bereavement support specialists

This line is available to all individuals that are impacted by perinatal loss including parents, extended family members and also health professionals

*Bereavement & Prenatal Health patient information. We provide free materials to families and health professionals, hospitals and clinics on various prenatal and bereavement topics.

*Support Groups - We offer a large number of free support groups for various groups held virtually. Each group is led by mental health professionals that have a personal experience with perinatal loss and/or have specialized their work on perinatal loss.

*Peer Companion Program - Our Peer Companion program coordinator will match newly bereaved individuals with a trained peer companion that has had a similar experience and if possible lives in close proximity.

Peers are available for the entire family from mothers, fathers, grandparents and more. Every effort is made to match new individuals with someone with the same type of loss history as well if at all possible.

*Childbirth Classes for Pregnancy After Loss - monthly classes to help loss couples consider or journey through a pregnancy after loss. Taught by a 30-year labor and delivery nurse who has specialized her work with the perinatal loss community.

*Ask An Expert - Our medical expert team and advisors graciously make themselves available to answer questions our constituents send in to try to shed light on the lingering questions that bereaved families have. This is a confidential service and information is not shared beyond the medical experts and the family. Sometimes even learning what did not cause a loss is important to know, especially when planning/experiencing a subsequent pregnancy.

*Family Support Specialists - Our team includes a group of Family Support Specialists that work with bereaved families to identify resources that the family might need along the way. Resource needs may be for referrals for medical/mental health services, financial, funeral planning and so much more. To reach out to a Family Support Specialists, call 952-715-7731, Ext 1

*Our dedicated seamstresses keep us well stocked with items like blankets, burial gowns, hats and diapers that can be provided to hospitals/birth centers to provide to their patients.

*Pregnancy Research Project - Many families are eager to have their own story help researchers in their efforts to identify risk factors for pregnancy loss and infant death. The Pregnancy Research Project is the nation's only comprehensive registry of pregnancies for this purpose. Participation in the Pregnancy Research Project is completely confidential.

*Health Professional Training - We also provide in person and online/on demand training for health professionals to help them care for pregnancy and infant loss patients/families.