Our Executive Director, Barbara Clarke, will be leaving The Children’s Room on July 31st. Barbara has been with The Children’s Room for almost three years, and has helped us enhance our community profile, professionalize our fundraising, and modernize our technological capabilities. We express our [...]
Mother's Day is often a difficult time for people who have experienced the death of someone. These two writings feature women who are missing their mothers at important milestones in their lives. A Mother Who Misses Her Mom is a poignant article by a [...]
At a recent 10th Anniversary Celebration of Volunteers and Staff, Karen Dillon delivered a heartfelt appreciation of her fellow volunteers. See what Karen had to say […]
The performance will be held at The Belmont Hill School, Kraft Theater, 350 Prospect Street, Belmont at 5:30 pm. The Performance Troupe is a group of teens who have written an original show about grief in the lives of today's teens. Each of the [...]
Join us this summer at The Children's Room for our inaugaral Summer Workshop Series. Day-long workshops will offer educators, mental health professionals and others opportunities to learn how to better support grieving children, teens and young adults. More info here.
Or donate toward our spruce tree, rose bushes, daphne…. Planting for our new Hope Grows Here garden is this week and we need to raise funds for our new cherry blossom tree and other beautiful plants that will brighten the front of the house. [...]
Our Parents Council, a group of "alumni" parents and other caring parents come together for workshops on a variety of topics. The following information was compiled from their recent workshop. Words That Don't Help We have all been hurt by people saying or doing [...]
The Children's Room wants to raise awareness about the prevalence and impact of coping with illness or death as a college student. We invite everyone to participate in the National College Student Grief Awareness Week, hosted by the National Students of AMF. Here is [...]
In her most recent article on the Psychology Today website, our board member and child bereavement expert, Phyllis Silverman writes that people instinctively want to protect children when someone has died. In her thoughtful piece, she proposes that a better approach is to guide [...]
As part of their new partnership with the Boston Celtics, TD Banknorth is providing teens from The Children's Room the opportunity to attend a Celtics game through the "TD Banknorth Kids Clubhouse" program. Celtics forward Al Jefferson hosts the program and will meet with [...]
The Children’s Room
1210 Massachusetts Ave.
Arlington, MA 02476
Phone: (781)-641-4741
Fax: (781) 641-0012
Email: info@childrensroom.org
Our business office hours:
Monday through Friday
9:30 am to 5:30 pm.
