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Did You Know...

  • Share has been helping bereaved families for 29 years
  • there are 26,000 stillbirths each year in the United States
  • Share is an international organization
  • each year in the United States, 900,000 early pregnancy losses occur
  • Share offers a free information packet to bereaved parents
  • there are 19,000 neonatal losses each year in the United States
  • Share provides support not only during the bereavement period, but also through subsequent pregnancies
  • Share provides an informative, interactive website with a chatroom and message boards. Visitors to the site have increased tenfold in the last two years, with currently 7,000 visitors to the site and 300 new messages posted on the message boards each day
  • Share publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, Sharing, that is free to bereaved families for one year
  • Share provides referrals for further support of the bereaved to healthcare facilities and other physicians as needed
  • members of the media look to Share for correct information and statistics, and a better understanding of the death of a baby for their reporting
  • Share was a participant in the National Institute of Health, which determined the need for research on the cause of stillbirths. $3 million was allocated for research in 2003
  • Share dedicated the 5th Christmas Box Angel of Hope Monument in St. Charles, MO in October, 1998. There are now 57 Angel of Hope Monuments around the United States
  • there are nearly 100 Share groups across the country
  • caregivers can use Share's resources in their outreach to bereaved families
  • Share provides bereavement education and training to professionals, clergy and funeral directors