Tamarack Grief Resource Center strengthens and honors individuals, families, and communities throughout their journey with grief. With offices in Missoula, Kalispell, and Browning, we help individuals and communities navigate grief and loss through counseling, grief camps and retreats, school-based programs, support groups, community workshops, urgent response support, and professional education.
Our therapeutic, nature-based programs are grounded in research-supported best practices and designed to help participants feel understood, gain tools, and access hope.
TGRC follows the International Association of Trauma Professionals’ (IATP) tri-phasic model of care and follows the National Standards for Bereavement Camps. TGRC is a proud member of the National Alliance for Children’s Grief.
Tamarack Grief Resource Center is a 501(c)3.
History
Tamarack Grief Resource Center (TGRC) is the only organization dedicated to providing year round, comprehensive grief support for youth, teens, and adults in Montana. We actively collaborate with organizations, foundations, individuals, businesses, corporations, and service agencies to provide high-quality grief support and education for children, teens, adults, and families. In 2008, when the regional bereavement program in Western Montana was discontinued, area hospices, hospitals, youth service programs, and counselors worked together to identify community needs, services, and how best to address gaps. Tamarack Grief Resource Center formally organized, filed for non-profit tax exemption, and accepted responsibility for continuing grief camps, groups, and educational programs that originated in 1992-2005 with Executive Director and Co-Founder, Tina Barrett, EdD, LCPC. Dr. Barrett has coordinated grief programs since the 1990s, directing SEASONS Bereavement Program for over a decade and working with children and families since 1989. Dr. Barrett has led over 100 grief camps and retreats for kids, teens, and adults, is a nationally respected specialist in outdoor-based grief support programs, and a speaker at state and national conferences.
