A place to visit: Solace brings the Parlor to forty new communities this summer.

Solace Technologies, Inc. today announced the largest expansion of Solace Parlor to date: forty new communities this summer, from Beaverton to Bend, Eugene to Cleveland — each one a quiet room, a Care team, and a place to visit.

"Eleven thousand families begin with us every day, and more than forty million voices are kept. But remembrance was never meant to happen alone in a parking lot with a phone. It deserves a room. Now it has forty more." — Katherine Voss, founder and chief executive officer, Solace

Forty rooms, one standard

Every new Parlor carries the flagship standard set in Seattle's converted bank: low chairs, cedar, consultation alcoves built around the first Listening, the Reminiscence Suite for in-room sessions, and Care Specialists trained in bereavement accompaniment — more than four hundred new Care roles hired and trained this year, each one starting with the same first sentence of the field guide: you are not a salesperson.

"We pick locations the way families pick cemeteries — close to home, quiet, easy to visit on an ordinary Tuesday," said Elena Marsh, Chief Care Officer. "Strip malls, main streets, the storefront next to the phở place. Grief lives in regular neighborhoods. So should we."

Opening this summer

New communities include Beaverton, Eugene, Salem, Bend, Vancouver, Tacoma South, Yakima, Missoula, Fort Collins, Mesa, Albuquerque, Wichita, Des Moines, Madison, Grand Rapids, Dayton, Lexington, Chattanooga, Greenville, Durham, and twenty more nationwide. Storefronts are papered and marked with the campaign that began it all: OPENING THIS SUMMER. A PLACE TO VISIT.

Walk-ins are always welcome: bring the shoebox, or bring nothing at all. Solace also confirmed that Companions — its companion experience for the family members who never said a word — is now available in all fifty states at $40 per month, directly and through partner veterinary clinics.

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