Live Like Phillip Foundation (LLP) was established to provide love and compassion to help families in the Bucks County Community who have experienced the loss of a school-age child.
The foundation was born after the devastating loss of my son Phillip. Through the indescribable pain and unimaginable grief came an incredible power to help and assist other families facing this unimaginable loss.
LLP’s original mission was to provide support for unexpected expenses and hardships encountered, due to lost wages, funeral expenses, therapists, bereavement retreats for the family, support groups for the surviving child and their parent, comfort care packages full of books and resources to help in the excruciating pain of child loss.
After a year, I recognized the incredible importance of establishing peer groups for the surviving siblings as I had no idea how to help my 13-year-old daughter.
As a parent, we are supposed to help our children and I felt hopeless about how to help my daughter who was grieving the loss of her brother. Her heart was shattered and she and I both knew she needed help. Meeting others who were on this same painful journey of losing a sibling seemed to be the help my daughter was so desperately looking for. In my search for this kind of community and support, I came up empty and so came the idea of starting our own peer group.
LLP’s vision is that no child will grieve alone. Processing grief is the hardest work you will ever do and it is lifelong. Kids, teens, and young adults need an outlet for their grief, so it does not come out in unhealthy ways. Our vision is to own our own home and create a space and community for children grieving in Bucks County.
The ripple effect of my dream is that one day the kids who come to the peer group now will come back to serve and lead others who are walking this painful journey and give back some of the hope they were given.
We depend on the support of the community to help provide care for teens, young adults, and their families in need and it is with your support that we will make this dream a reality.
Lynn Osereduk
President & Founder
Live Like Phillip Foundation