- Housing for families of children who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other life threatening illnesses - Families assigned own room. Each family supplies own food - Outside and inside play area, living rooms, recreation rooms and kitchens - University hospitals provide shuttle service - Volunteers provide rides to grocery stores, Target and many other helpful duties

Staff are available for speaking engagements pertaining to Tamarisk, Inc.'s mission specifically, or issues regarding the consequences of life-threatening illness for the individual and family from a non-medical perspective, caregiver wellbeing, or grief and loss

- Renewing Life: 8-week educational/support series - Resource library on emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and death - Workshops and seminars - Weekly meditation, yoga, and life enrichment/death awareness sessions - Art room - Guided imagery workshops - Educational workshops intended to support a self-empowered approach to healing as complementary to their traditional medical care

- Housing for families of children who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other life threatening illnesses - Families assigned own room. Each family supplies own food - Outside and inside play area, living rooms, recreation rooms and kitchens - University hospitals provide shuttle service - Volunteers provide rides to grocery stores, Target and many other helpful duties

- Housing for families of children who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other life threatening illnesses - Families assigned own room. Each family supplies own food - Outside and inside play area, living rooms, recreation rooms and kitchens - University hospitals provide shuttle service - Volunteers provide rides to grocery stores, Target and many other helpful duties

Offering support and education to people who have cancer, have had cancer, family members, friends and children

- Class D Hospice program - Care for terminally ill patients - Support for family members

Hospice care is delivered through a team of professionals under St. Mary's Hospital Hospice. The mission of Itasca Hospice is to support and assure access for patients and families to quality Hospice services as provided by Itasca Hospice, and to educate the community on issues of dying, death and grief. Hospice offers a variety of support groups dealing with illness, death and grief.

Outpatient counseling is provided in person and virtually for partners, individuals, children and adolescents. Providers work with clients ages 5 and up. Provides services for: - Anxiety - Behavioral concerns inchild - Bereavement/grief - Chronic illness - Depression - Difficulty with workand/or school - Discernment Counseling - Gender and/or sexualidentity concerns - Holocaust survivorcounseling - Life transitions - Parenting stress - Prepare & Enrich - Relationship stress - SPACE (SupportiveParenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) - Symptom management - Traumatic experiences

- Housing for families of children who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other life threatening illnesses - Families assigned own room. Each family supplies own food - Outside and inside play area, living rooms, recreation rooms and kitchens - University hospitals provide shuttle service - Volunteers provide rides to grocery stores, Target and many other helpful duties

- Information about funerals, cremation and burial. Includes information and appropriate referrals on topics such as: law, grief counseling, prepayment of funerals, anatomical gifts, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrom (SIDS) - Provides appropriate literature and teaching aids to the general public, schools, churches, service and community organizations, on subjects of death and dying and the funeral - Will supply qualified personnel to conduct study groups, seminars and speakers for discussion groups of all ages - Works with all support groups, (Theos, Compassionate Friends, Hospice Coalition Group, Suicide Survivor Therapists)