With summer approaching, you might be thinking about a family vacation. After coping with a loss in your family you may decide to redefine your family vacation and make some changes. Others might find comfort in returning to a favorite place or activity. Do you stay with past traditions or do you try something new? [...]

“If we lost Uncle David, why don’t we go find him?”
Strategies for Talking with Young Children about Death, Dying and Loss
This interactive workshop will provide tools and strategies for working with young children around death, illness, and other painful losses. Participants will learn how to support and work with young children and their families through [...]

Are you thinking about making a more serious commitment to a new partner after the loss of your spouse?  You might be planning to talk to your kids about changing your living arrangement or getting remarried.  How do you balance your role as a single parent with a commitment to a new relationship? Children can [...]

Fostering Resiliency in Children Coping with Death, Illness and other Losses
This workshop provides social workers, counselors, teachers, and other professionals with the tools and  strategies to support children through all kinds of loss. Loss will be discussed not only as a crisis, but as an opportunity to develop and strengthen coping skills [...]

The Arlington Menotomy Rockets will join other local women’s hockey teams for a day of friendly competition and family fun to raise money and awareness for cancer research. The event will include games, live music, door prizes, raffle prizes, a silent auction, 50/50, and T shirt toss.
In 2008, Arlington moms, Diane Mucci and Jenn Tripp, [...]

Your relationship with your in-laws may change after the death of your spouse. Perhaps it’s a friendship that will stand on its own, or maybe it wasn’t a positive relationship before the loss. Your in-laws are your children’s family, and you will most likely feel it is your responsibility to keep your children connected to [...]

Creating a Crisis Plan: Helping Your Community Respond to Loss
by Creating a Crisis Team and Plan of Action

This training will provide participants with developmentally appropriate tools and strategies for helping children and adolescents cope with death, dying and loss. Working interactively, we will discuss how to create a ‘crisis’ or ‘caring’ team and [...]

Are you beginning to think about dating again after the loss of your spouse or partner?
It can be challenging to talk with your children about a new relationship. Perhaps you’re asking yourself: How do I get started? Is internet dating safe? Should I introduce my date to my children? There are so many difficult questions [...]

We are so pleased to announce that Martin Conneely and Maritza Ebling will be running the Boston Marathon in April in support of The Children’s Room. Our two marathon bibs are provided through the generosity of the John Hancock Foundation. John Hancock has sponsored the Boston Marathon for 25 years, and each year provides entry [...]

Helping Our Children & Teens Cope with Stressful Life Events
This presentation and interactive discussion will give parents, educators, and other concerned adults practical information about how children and teens understand and cope with loss. Participants will learn developmentally appropriate strategies and language to help children understand significant losses such as death, divorce, and illness.
Caring adults [...]