Find Resources & Support

  • Bereaved Parents of the USA
    A national non-profit self-help group that offers support, understanding, compassion and hope especially to the newly bereaved.
  • Brief Encounters
    Offering support groups in the Portland Metro area for parents of pregnancy loss, fertility issues, and subsequent pregnancies and adoptions.
  • Centering Corporation
    Education on grief and loss for professionals and the families they serve.
  • Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families
    Offering support for children and teens in the Portland area.
  • Glow in the Woods
    For parents of lost babies and potential of all kinds. In the beginning you stagger, disoriented, through this storm. We want to be a glow through the trees, a golden refuge of log and glass.
  • HAND: Helping After Neonatal Death
    Helping After Neonatal Death helps parents, their families and their healthcare providers cope with the loss of a baby before, during, or after birth.
  • Hygeia
    To comfort those who grieve the loss of a pregnancy or newborn child.
  • Jizo Ceremony for Children Who Have Died
    Annual ceremony at Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie.
  • M.E.N.D. Miscarriage Support
    Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death is a Christian, non-profit organization that reaches out to families who have suffered the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth, or early infant death.
  • MISS Foundation
    A non-profit, volunteer-based organization committed to providing crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause.
  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Forums
    Support forums for bereaved families. Affiliated with national non-profit organization offering photography for families whose babies have died or who anticipate a loss.
  • Grief Watch
    A small, family-run non-profit that has one mission in mind, assisting you in your time of pain and personal journey through bereavement.
  • Resolve: The National Infertility Organization
    A non-profit organization promoting reproductive health.

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Visit the Memorial

One of the founding goals of the Nora Madelyn Fund for Infant and Child Loss was to construct a memorial in Providence Newberg Medical Center's healing garden to provide a place of reflection, comfort and hope for parents who have lost a child at any age or stage of pregnancy.

The memorial was completed and installed in the Spring of 2006. Portland artist Greg Lewis created the glass butterfly sculpture. A memorial plaque has been placed with the artwork.

A dedication ceremony led by hospital chaplain Rev. Gregg Selander was held July 22, 2006. View photos of the memorial and dedication ceremony.

We are so grateful to everyone who has supported Nora's Fund; because of you, the community has a permanent memorial to remember our children. We hope that it provides comfort and hope to families for many years to come.

For those who wish to view the memorial in person, Providence Newberg Medical Center is located just off Hwy. 99W at 1001 Providence Drive in Newberg. Enter the healing garden through Ruth's Cafe. The memorial is on the eastern edge of the garden.

Additional landscaping around the memorial includes perennials, a pink dogwood, and Love roses, one of the parent roses of Fire and Ice (or "Nora's Rose").