Founders of defunct South Bay grief program launch nonprofit to continue original mission

WHEN A LONGSTANDING PROGRAM offering grief counseling and mental health support services in the South Bay lost funding and had to shut down in December, two women who served the organization for years began making their own plans.

“We wanted to figure out a way to continue doing the work,” Janet Childs, who co-founded the program known as the Centre for Living with Dying in 1976, told San José Spotlight.