Establish peer support group for families& friends of homicide victimsL.I.N.C. (Long-term Inmates Now in the Community) Society

Survivors have told us that here is a lack of services for individuals struggling with the devestating and on-going impact of homicide. Many family members and friends of people who have been murdered feel very alone in their grief. Marjean Fichtenberg, the principal writer and writer of the L.I.N.C. feasibility study, whose son Dennis was murdered and myself, along with the L.I.N.C. board decided that a peer support group for survivors would be a good first step. Our group model was the pilot group established by Marlyn Ferguson, bereavement counsellor and survivor herslef, at Valley View Funeral Home in Surrey, B.C. Two facilitators-Misty Cockerill and Roy Schubert have been trained. Space to run the groups has been donated. Valley View Funeral Home has given us in-kind and financial support. L.I.N.C. is raising funds for the project from the sale of organic vegetables grown in the L.I.N.C. plots at the community garden it manages in Mission, B.C.