General

That answer depends on where you are. We offer you a number of ways to take a small or bigger step. You can sign up for our newsletters or follow us on Facebook if you want to become more acquainted with our work as [...]

We work with families whose person died for a variety of reasons. The majority of our families have had a parent/spouse/co-parent die, but we also work with families whose child/sibling died. The most common cause of death is cancer or other medical issues, but [...]

The Children’s Room is the region’s largest child bereavement organization. We serve over 700 people across our programs annually. Services include peer-based grief support groups for families with children and teens aged 3½-18, offered at our Arlington center, as well as in schools and [...]

The answer is as unique as the families' need. Typically, families come towards within the first year since their person died and stay with us 2-3 years. Since we offer a range of programming, including phone consultations, often families will participate in multiple programs [...]

All of our services are free of charge. We know that a death is often accompanied by financial hardship and we do not want to add to that burden. Grieving families have enough to deal with, without making cost a barrier. Because we offer [...]

Over 80% of our income comes from individuals. The Children’s Rooms does not charge fees for program participation: 98% of our annual budget is raised from private philanthropy; 20% from foundation and corporate funders and 80% from individual donations. We have created a donor [...]