Creating Safe Spaces for Latino Students to Grieve: Lessons from the Spanish-Speaking Grief Group

Creating Safe Spaces for Latino Students to Grieve: Lessons from the Spanish-Speaking Grief Group For many children and teens, especially in communities where grief is often kept private, going to school can mean carrying an invisible weight. Without spaces to talk about loss, students [...]

Strengthening Community Partnerships to Expand Grief-Informed Care

Strengthening Community Partnerships to Expand Grief-Informed Care At The Children’s Room, we know it takes strong partnerships across schools, health systems, and communities to ensure that no child or teen grieves alone. This summer, our staff had the opportunity to present for several community [...]

Supporting Students Who Are Grieving: How Educators and Parents Can Work Together

Supporting Students Who Are Grieving: How Educators and Parents Can Work Together Going back to school after a loss can be one of the hardest transitions for children and teens. Grief affects how students learn, connect with friends, and show up in the classroom. [...]

Supporting Grieving Families, Together: Community Partnerships in Action

Supporting Grieving Families, Together: Community Partnerships in Action At The Children’s Room, we know that grief doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The kind of support children, teens, and families need after a death often begins with a caring professional—someone who recognizes the need, opens [...]

Reflecting, Learning, and Growing Together: Highlights from the 28th NACG Symposium

Reflecting, Learning, and Growing Together: Highlights from the 28th NACG Symposium What does it mean to support a child through grief in today’s world? That question brought together hundreds of professionals, clinicians, educators, nonprofit leaders, researchers, and program staff at the 28th National Symposium [...]

TCR and Boston Children’s Hospital Partner to Provide Parenting Support for Families After Child Loss

TCR and Boston Children's Hospital Partner to Provide Parenting Support for Families After Child Loss For families facing unimaginable death loss, hospitals are often the first touchpoint—where grief begins and where support is needed most. At The Children’s Room, we know that grief doesn’t [...]

A Better Understanding of Grief in Our Community

The Parmenter Foundation recently hosted a powerful panel event at Regis College, bringing together experts from nonprofits to explore ways of better understanding grief in our community. The Children's Room was proud to participate. Christine Lambright, our Program Director for School and Community-Based [...]

Exploring Therapeutic Space Planning

Early this August, The Children’s Room welcomed a group of students from Tufts University for a special visit focused on therapeutic space planning. This engaging session, led by Laurie Moskowitz-Corrois, Associate Program Director for Family and Expressive Arts at TCR, offered a deep dive [...]

Creating Grief-Sensitive Classrooms: Insights from TCR’s Workshop at the Massachusetts Teachers Association Summer Conference

Last July, The Children's Room had the honor of presenting at the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) Summer Conference, held at UMass Amherst. Our workshop, titled "Integrating Social-Emotional Learning and Grief Support in the Classroom," brought together educators from across the state to explore innovative [...]