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Help is available

Posted February 14, 2008 10:00 pm

NIU Students, staff and their families coping with grief and anxiety related to Thursday's tragedy can contact any of the following agencies.

• Rainbow Hospice. For people who have lost loved one through any means. Groups for teens, families, general grief, parent loss, adult loss of siblings. Individual counseling available. Based in Park Ridge. (847) 692-8884 and www.rainbowhospice.com

• Hospice of the North Shore. (847) 467-7423

• Hospice of Northeastern Illinois. Based in Barrington, (847) 381-5599 www.hospiceanswers.org/griefsupport.html

• Any hospital. Most major hospitals will have grief support help available, through groups and individual counseling.

• Hospice of DuPage. Based in Carol Stream. (630) 690-9000.

• Fox Valley Hospice. (630) 208-6754

• Heartland Counseling, Elburn. (630) 365-0899

• McHenry County Crisis Line. (800) 892-8900.

• Suicide Prevention Services, based in Batavia. (630) 482-9696.

• Crisis Line of the Fox Valley. (630) 966-9393

• Depression hotline:

(800) SUICIDE

• National Crisis Help Line:

(800) 273-TALK

• 24-hour crisis hotline, DuPage County. (630) 627-1700

• Information and advocacy: National Alliance on Mental Illness, DuPage. (630) 752-0066.

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