Compassionate Friends of Sioux Falls

10/15/2026

A place where bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings can find connection, compassion, and understanding, because grief may change over time, but love never ends.

You Need Not Walk Alone.

10/05/2026

Some losses happen before we get the chance to bring our babies home. Some happen after we have briefly held them in our arms. And sometimes we do not even have the chance for that. No matter when the loss occurs, the love is there and so is the grief.

Pregnancy and infant loss can be deeply isolating. Milestones, due dates, holidays, and everyday moments can bring waves of grief that others may not see.

If you are grieving the death of a baby, you don't have to navigate that grief alone. The Compassionate Friends offers connection, understanding, and support for bereaved families.

This month and always, we remember the lives that changed us forever.

09/17/2026

The Compassionate Friends offers resources and opportunities for connection, including:
💜 Local TCF Chapters - Find a community of bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings who understand the experience of child loss.
💜 Online Support Communities - Connect with others through virtual support when you are not able to attend a local group.
💜 Private Facebook Groups - TCF offers a specific community for those grieving a loss to cancer, along with groups for different family relationships and circumstances.
💜 Grief Resources - Access articles, brochures, educational materials and We Need Not Walk Alone, TCF's national magazine featuring stories and support from bereaved parents, grandparents, and siblings.

08/31/2026

Today on International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember the children, siblings, and grandchildren whose lives were lost to substance-related causes.

Behind every loss is a family learning how to live with an unimaginable absence. Grief after a substance-related death can bring unique challenges-questions, stigma, anger, guilt, confusion, and feelings that can be difficult to share with others.

You don't have to navigate that grief alone.

The Compassionate Friends offers a compassionate judgment-free community for families grieving the death of a child, sibling, or grandchild.

Join our Loss to Substance Related Causes or Sibling Loss to Substance Related Causes private Facebook groups.

08/31/2026

Losing a child is devastating, and there is a critical need to develop better support for bereaved parents. The University of Miami is currently conducting a study that is exploring how social relationships are impacted by the loss of a child. To find out if you may be eligible to participate, please click here:

08/11/2026

07/03/2026

SAY THEIR NAME! 💜

One of our main aims here at ACOM and on National Bereaved Parents Day is to keep every single child's memory alive. We must remember them and say their name.

If you have been affected by the loss of a child or baby, share their photos and say their name in the comments below.

Let's remember them together! 💜

05/07/2026

via All the Things Joni

05/03/2026

Some days don’t show up on every calendar…
but they are written on our hearts all the same.

Today is International Bereaved Mother’s Day.
A day for the women who carry both love and loss in the same breath.

If this day belongs to you, I want you to know…
I see you.

I see the quiet strength it takes to keep going.
The way you hold their memory in the middle of ordinary moments.
The love that didn’t end… even when everything else changed.

You are still a mother.
Always have been. Always will be.

There is no timeline for this kind of love.
No finish line for this kind of grief.
Only a sacred, ongoing story…
where their life continues to matter,
and your love continues to speak.

Today, we honor you.
We speak their names.
We remember alongside you.

And if your heart feels especially tender…
be gentle with yourself.

Love like yours never dies.
It just learns how to live in a different way. 💜

04/24/2026

Dear TCF members,

I am writing to share some difficult news about one of our members. One of our dads, Josh Cauwels, passed away on Tuesday, April 21, 2026. His son Ernest (Ernie) passed away on June 9, 2019. There is a memorial gathering planned for Friday, May 1st @ 10:30 a.m. Please consider attending to honor Josh’s life and support his family, including his two daughters, Lucille & Ophelia.

https://www.millerfh.com/obituary/joshua-cauwels

A GoFundMe has been set up to help with funeral expenses https://gofund.me/c68f292cc

Josh was employed at the St. Francis House at the time of his death. At our May meeting, we will be collecting monetary donations and purchasing a memorial gift (something that would be of use to them) in honor of Josh.

If you feel so inclined to support in one or both ways, I know it would be very much appreciated by his family and the St. Francis House.


With deep compassion,
The TCF Leadership Team

Joshua Ronald Cauwels, age 36, of Sioux Falls, SD, passed away unexpectedly on April 21, 2026, in Sioux Falls. A memorial service will be held on Friday, May 1st at 1030 AM at Miller Funeral Home - Downtown Location 507 S Main Ave in Sioux Falls, SD. Family will be