Hope Has a Home
Built to help the future
All-Inclusive Grief Support Center
The Retreat at Quarters Lake, by The Hospice of Baton Rouge, is intended to provide a tranquil environment and serve as a safe space for the children, teens and adults of Greater Baton Rouge to learn how to better cope with and process grief and loss beyond the traditional clinical counseling. The grief support center is free of charge to anyone in the community thanks to caring individual, corporate donors, and The Hospice of Baton Rouge.
Hope Has a Home
The Retreat at Quarters Lake will offer traditional grief and bereavement services, including individual counseling and grief support groups. In addition to traditional grief support services, The Retreat at Quarters Lake will also offer alternative, holistic therapies in order to ensure individuals - of any age - are able to process their grief effectively and in a supportive environment. Alternative therapies will include art therapy, music therapy, pet therapy, guided spiritual exercise, and grief yoga and meditative movement, to name a few. Listed below are the facilities The Retreat at Quarters Lake will host:
Our Values
Empathy – People of different circumstances, ages, backgrounds, and personalities will handle grief in their own unique ways. The Retreat’s approach will start with empathy: stretching our mindset, care, and approach where possible in consideration of the perspectives of our team members and those we serve.
Community – The Retreat is a guiding light in the fog — a rare resource for the broader Baton Rouge community and ultimately the state. Through our inclusive grief support services and resources, we not only build community, but we serve all in the broader community who need us. This includes partners and competitors, schools and corporations, faith-based and secular organizations — everyone experiences grief, and that is who we are here for.
Creativity – As with the design of The Retreat facility itself, we pride ourselves in taking creative, sometimes unconventional approaches to holistic grief care and programming. This could mean unique sessions that represent a different take on grief support, it could mean creative partnerships with other organizations, or it could mean original ways to allow loved ones to celebrate and memorialized those they have lost. We are only limited by our imagination.
Sustainability – While The Retreat is a mission-driven facility with a purpose of serving our community, we run it in a way that creates stability and long-term impact. This is inherent in our approach to creating revenue streams and structuring partner relationships. A sustainable Retreat enhances our impact.
Community Engagement
Additionally, The Retreat at Quarters Lake will function as a dedicated educational hub, allowing for collaboration with other community organizations and stakeholders. As an Educational Center, The Hospice of Baton Rouge can help educate the community at-large on what grief entails, how it can present itself, and how various disciplines can work together to assist those bereaved individuals.
