Reflections from Mark RedmondI first learned about The Children’s Room through a classmate in my mental health counseling graduate program. I was fortunate to join the staff in 2005, soon after TCR moved into the house, and for five years I helped train, support, and...

Reflections and conversations with LisaSeveral years ago, Lisa attended a Children’s Room breakfast and recognized one of the speakers immediately.His children had participated in support groups years earlier, and Lisa remembered them well. Before he spoke, she introduced herself.What happened next caught her by surprise.The...

Reflections from GinaIn a high school, grief is often quieter than people expect.It moves through crowded hallways and classrooms. It sits behind unfinished homework, exhaustion, silence, irritability, or the student who suddenly seems unlike themselves. Sometimes everyone around a grieving student knows what happened. Sometimes...

By LucaWhen my mom first suggested I join a group at The Children’s Room, I wasn’t exactly interested. I didn’t know what to expect, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to talk about my dad with people I didn’t know.He died when I was two...

For 30 years, children, teens, and families have come to The Children’s Room carrying grief that often felt impossible to explain. What many found was something simpler, and perhaps more powerful: people who understood.There are certain feelings people remember long after details begin to blur.The...