My name is Jessica Porté, Founder and Consultant with Wayfinder Family Co., an organization focused on supporting children and families navigate grief, change, and loss. With over a a 12 years of experience in nonprofit, I have worked with children, teens, and families with life challenges related to grief, substance-use disorder, foster care, and other loss that impacts your community. I’ve worked with over 30 school districts in the Riverside and San Diego County area providing trainings, group facilitation, resources, crisis response, and consulting. As a consultant, I specialize in developing programs, curricula, trainings.

As a Grief-informed Coach, 1 in 12 children are impacted by the death of a parent or sibling in the United States by the time they reach 18 year old (CBEM, 2023). That number more than doubles by the age of 25 years old. What we know is that loss of a significant person in childhood cam greatly impact development, and adversity to stressors. What is also found is proper grief-informed support, education, community, resources minimize those impacts. I believe it is the responsibility of caregivers, community, and leaders to develop a grief-informed lens to support the outcomes of our future. I offer education and programming to families who are struggling after a loss to navigate the “now what” of life after death.