Widowhood is a survivor mission. When you google ‘Widow Survivor Mission’, you won’t find much. Maybe a few military and VA widows who have fought long and hard to ‘Ax the Widows Tax’ and our Survivor of Suicide Support Group at Modern Widows Club. But not much else…….
Widowhood isn’t something identified as something to survive. That’s only part of the problem for the invisible women and men who are truly surviving the most stressful life event according to the Holmes and Rahe social readjustment scale giving losing a spouse a 100 stress point score placing it in the #1 one spot on the list.
Modern Widows Club is now the only resource listed in the #MyFloridaMyFamily database under CARE by adding the filter 'grieving' and keyword 'widow' for support (or at least to find us as a resource). Yet, there are 914K Florida based widows, and 80K in the Central Florida area where our nonprofit organization was founded. Finding state support doesn’t exist for widows or widow programs.
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