Halloween is behind us and Thanksgiving is just around the corner.  For grieving children, teens and families - or anyone grieving a loss - these are difficult times.  Whether your loss was recent or several years ago, each holiday season presents new challenges.
The Children’s Room has several resources that may help during this time.
Parenting Through [...]

Our Communications Director Anne Favaloro shares her family’s personal story with the Medford Boat Club to express her gratitude for their sponsorship, which made our event so meaningful for them.  We have reproduced it here with her permission.

Counselors and educators can never have too many hands-on, how-to techniques and strategies to respond to the needs of grieving children, teens and adults. Join us on Saturday, September 13, 2008 from 10am-2pm and learn new ways to utilize expressive arts therapies that encourage healthy coping strategies and enable youth and adults to not [...]

Multicultural Perspectives on Death & Grief:
A Conference for Caregivers, Researchers, & Educators

presented by
The National Center for Death Education, Mt. Ida College
The Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of MA
The New England AIDS Education Training Center
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Friday, September 19, 2008, 8 am to 5 pm
University of Massachusetts Boston - Campus Center
Loss is [...]

In 2008 Tufts Health Plan launched the Tufts Health Plan Foundation.  The Foundation’s mission is to promote healthy lifestyles and the delivery of quality health care in our communities.
The Children’s Room is pleased to be one of the first grant recipients of this newly formed foundation.  The Foundation is supporting our efforts to bring our [...]

Barbara Clarke, our executive director attended the National Alliance for Grieving Children’s 12th Annual Symposium in Houston, Texas. Almost 300 practitioners from the US and Canada attended these three days of workshops and key note speakers. Some of the highlights included:

Interesting keynote from William Worden who, along with The Children’s Room’s own Phyllis [...]

Join RESOLVE for an evening of creativity and healing. Presenter Laura Seftel will speak about creative expression as a response to pregnancy loss, failed fertility treatments, and stillbirth — that both validates and heals the “underground grief ” of these losses.
This workshop will feature a slide presentation of works from the Secret Club Project, an [...]