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 [...]

We offer a series of workshops that provide practical information and strategies to address challenging topics related to death, divorce, illness, or any crisis of loss.  These workshops are open to the community, and continuing education credits are available for participants. Workshops run from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm at our house in Arlington.
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On Friday, April 17th, the alumni of the Simmons College School of Social Work will be treated to several presentations from reprentatives from The Children’s Room as part of the college’s alumni programming.
The Keynote Speaker for the event is one of the founding board members of The Children’s Room Phyllis Silverman who will present on [...]

Donna Sharff, Program Director and Deborah Rivlin, Director of Education and Training from The Children’s Room will be presenting at this year’s conference for the Massachusetts School Counselors Association.  
This workshop will provide counselors with the tools of language and strategies, from a developmental perspective, to help children and adolescents understand, grieve and remember as [...]

This workshop is open to the public and is ideal for teachers and other professionals who work with children of all ages.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (Fee: $25, payable on-line or in person)
Location: The Children’s Room, 1210 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA
To register, email cshannon@childrensroom.org.  RSVPs are essential as space is limited [...]

As part of our on-going Parenting Through Grief series, a group of our alumni parents came together and shared their experiences of parenting a grieving teenager.  We are thankful for our Parent Council for organizing this and writing up the notes from their discussion.  The full version is in our Resources section.
Our next Parenting Through [...]

We are thrilled to announce that Deborah Rivlin, an acknowledged thirty-year expert in the field of child bereavement, has joined The Children’s Room as Director of Education and Training.
Deborah previously spent twenty years with the Good Grief program of Boston Medical Center.  Deborah developed the program The CIRCLE, providing support groups to families.  One of [...]

Grief is a term we often associate with the loss of a relationship through death yet the loss in our lives and those of the children and families with whom we work often extends beyond bereavement. David Luterman is a pioneer in working with children and families who have been impacted by loss related to [...]

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 [...]