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Judi’s House
The vision of Judi's House is a community in which no child has to feel alone in grief. Our mission is to help children and families who are grieving the death of a loved one find hope and healing within themselves. At Judi's House, an environment of acceptance and understanding allows children and adults in peer support groups to share the experience of loss with others. Judi’s House increases awareness and knowledge of grieving children’s needs by extending grief support services to schools, faith-based groups, hospices, and other caregivers in the community.
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The Healing Center
The Healing Center is a grief-support community for adults, children and families. People come to us with a variety of losses, including the death of a partner, parent, sibling, child or infant. Our community offers a unique, long-term, multi-faceted approach to grief support, combining structured therapy sessions with informal events and social networks.
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The Children’s Treehouse Foundation
Founded in January of 2001 in Denver, Colorado, we are the nation’s only organization providing hospital-based, cancer-focused, psychosocial intervention training and programming dedicated to improving the emotional health of children whose parents have cancer.
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Wildflower Camp Foundation
The mission of the Wildflower Camp Foundation is to offer scholarship assistance for summer camp and enrichment programs to families in which a parent has died. It is our well-substantiated belief that this opportunity can provide a restorative experience both for the children and the surviving parent.
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The Cove
The Cove provides family and school-based programs utilizing the peer support group concept for helping children, teens and families work with their unresolved grief due to the death of someone significant in their lives and other traumatic losses. The Cove also provides professional development and training for adults working with children and teens.
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Cancer Connection
Cancer Connection offers a haven where people living with cancer, their families and their caregivers can learn how to cope with their changed lives and bodies and emotional turmoil by sharing strategies and resources.
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Manitou Experience
Our programs facilitate safe spaces where kids can explore their grief, break the isolation they may feel with their non-grieving peers, and have a whole lot of fun. They have the opportunity to meet and bond with kids who share similar losses. Under the guidance of professional bereavement staff and caring volunteers, campers and group members have the opportunity to share stories and remember the one who died, while exploring skills that will help them in their journeys through grief.
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Nancamp
Nancamp offers children dealing with cancer the opportunity to break free for two weeks from the awful pressure in their young lives by participating in a unique summer day camp experience on the ocean on Children’s Island, two fun-filled weeks at Small Fry/Explorers Camp at the YMCA or at Camp Simchah at the Jewish Community Center in Marblehead. At no cost to the family.
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Heartplay
HEART play sm is Wayside Hospice’s award-winning, free program that uses the creative arts to help children and teens cope with the illness or death of a loved one. An art therapist encourages families in their own homes or at the hospice residence to explore and express feelings of love and grief. Creative arts activities assist family members to support one another.
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Comfort Zone Camp
Comfort Zone Camp is a bereavement camp that transforms the lives of children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or primary caregiver.
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