Our House in Los Angeles
Grief support in Los Angeles since 1993
Our House Grief Support Center has walked alongside grieving children, teens, and adults across Los Angeles for more than three decades.
Looking for support in Los Angeles?
Visit Our House Grief Support Center
Our House in Los Angeles offers groups for children, teens, and adults, Spanish-language groups, Camp Erin, school-based groups, and on-site grief response.
Visit ourhouse-grief.orgCall 310-473-1511
West Los Angeles: 3415 S Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 120
Woodland Hills: 21860 Burbank Blvd, North Building, Suite 195
How Our House began
A need nobody was meeting
In the early 1990s, Jo-Ann Lautman was leading parenting classes and working with hospice patients in West Los Angeles when a young participant died suddenly, leaving behind a partner and a small child. She saw how little grief support existed, especially for younger grievers who were expected to “bounce back” and move on.
After two years of supporting grieving people informally, she opened Our House Grief Support Center in October 1993 as a place, in their words, to “start the process of rebuilding lives after the devastation of the death of someone close.”
Today Our House has two centers in Los Angeles, in West Los Angeles and Woodland Hills, along with groups in schools and community sites across Los Angeles County. Their mission is simple: to provide the community with grief support services, education, resources, and hope.
The Our House Model
Groups matched with care
by the griever's age, their relationship to the person who died, and the time since the death.
Led by trained volunteers
Volunteer Group Leaders co-facilitate every group, trained and supervised by clinical staff.
Grief is not an illness
Groups offer community and understanding, not therapy. Grief is treated as a natural response to a death.
Beyond the group room
School-based groups, on-site grief response, and grief education for physicians, clergy, and mental health professionals.
