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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Each year, members of Share Pregnancy and Infant |
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| Loss Support Group in Springfield meet at a "Walk to Remember" |
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| to honor the lives of their children that have died; and
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| WHEREAS, Share was started in 1977 at St. John's Hospital |
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| in Springfield by Sister Jane Marie Lamb, OSF, after she had |
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| worked with bereaved parents in Decatur with a group called |
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| AMEND (Aiding Mothers and Fathers Experiencing Neonatal |
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| Death); at the time, there was not much support or knowledge |
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| for parents experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death |
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| of an infant; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1978, Share began providing education on |
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| perinatal loss and bereavement in hospitals, colleges, |
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| seminaries, and support groups; this became part of the |
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| curriculum for St. John's Hospital School of Nursing, Lincoln |
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| Land Nursing School, SIU School of Medicine, and for various |
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| departments at the University of Illinois - Springfield; and
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| WHEREAS, The national Share office has moved from |
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| Springfield, first to Belleville, and then to its present |
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| location in St. Charles, Missouri, but the Springfield chapter |
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| of Share continues to meet monthly in support of bereaved |
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| parents; and
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| WHEREAS, Nearly every month for close to twenty years, |
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| Kreston and Elizabeth Lipscomb have facilitated the |
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| Springfield Share chapter; they have shared their own |
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| experience with painful losses and the joy of their three |
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| living children with literally hundreds and hundreds of |
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| bereaved parents, thus offering comfort, support, empathy, and |
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| hope for the future; and
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| WHEREAS, This year, the annual "Walk to Remember" is |