bereavement resources
Trying to find compassionate and nonjudgmental support in grief can be exhausting, discouraging, and time-consuming.
We want to reduce the time it takes to receive the care you’re seeking and bring the information to you.
Helping a Child Who is Grieving
The Dougy Center:
Developmental Responses to Grief, ages 2 to 18
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National Alliance for Children’s Grief:
About Childhood Grief
How to Support an Autistic Experiencing Grief & Loss
National Alliance for Children’s Grief:
Children and End of Life Memorials and Rituals
The Dougy Center:
Tips for Teens Who Are Grieving
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You’ll find a list of organizations in Massachusetts below along with a larger list to download that includes a variety of resource types and covers a larger geographic region.
Please feel free to ignore what does not resonate. You are the expert on your unique grief process.
Massachusetts
Organizations
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Care Dimensions
Danvers, MA
They offer virtual support groups of all types for adults, including parents, and sometimes children as well. Tiene un grupo de apoyo en español también.
The Children’s Room
Arlington, MA
They offer in-person caregiver and child peer support groups.
Child Witness to Violence Project
Boston, MA
They provide free support to caregivers and families and children ages 0-8 who have been exposed to community violence, a trauma-related event, or domestic violence.
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton, MA
They offer a variety of adult bereavement groups (walking group, book club, expressive arts support group, etc.) and a bereavement program for those ages 5-18 at “The Garden.”
Dee Dee’s Cry
MA
They offer numerous groups for BIPOC individuals, including a teen group and a “Life After Loss” group for those who have had someone die by suicide.
E-motion
MA, New England, NY, & select U.S. states
They provide community for grieving people through movement and monthly virtual “sacred circles.” They offer in-person programs across MA, in New England, and NY.
Empty Arms Bereavement
Florence, MA
They provide virtual support groups for those living in Massachusetts who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons, or infant death. Tiene un grupo de apoyo en español también.
Good Grief Program
at Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
They provide individual therapeutic support for children and caregivers.
Massachusetts Organizations
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Good Shepherd Community Care Newton, MA
They offer groups for the death of a partner or spouse as well as a parent. Contact them for group information.
Heart Play
Newton, MA
They provide child-based groups, camps, and individual support. Individual support can be offered at their office in Newton, in your home, or virtually.
H.E.A.L.I.N.G.
Newton, MA
Scroll to the bottom of the webpage to find information about a “Caregiver Support Group” and a monthly adult group for those ages 22-35.
Hope Floats
Kingston, MA
They offer in-person child peer support groups, day-long retreats, "family nights" for parents and children, and parent bereavement groups.
Jeff’s Place
Framingham, MA
They offer in-person caregiver and child peer support groups in addition to a virtual grandparent group. Individual counseling support is available for a fee.
Junie’s Place
MA
An organization that supports traumatically bereaved parents and caregivers who have experienced the death of a child or infant. The loss of an infant could be during pregnancy, stillbirth, or early in life.
Massachusetts Organizations
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Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
Dorchester, MA
They offer support groups, mindfulness, and advocacy for those impacted by the death of a person by suicide, homicide, overdose and incarceration. They provide an emergency/crisis care in the first 24-72 hours after a homicide.
Newton Wellesley Hospital
Newton, MA
They offer a Child Loss Support Group for those who have had a child die before birth, at birth, or shortly after birth.
Rick’s Place
Wilbraham, MA
They offer peer support groups to youth and caregivers at their site as well as in local schools.
Samaritans
MA
They offer virtual and in-person support groups to those who have had a person die by suicide. There is one specifically for parents and caregivers of children who have died by suicide.
Sharing Kindness
Cape Cod & The Islands, MA
They offer suicide prevention, education, and grief support programs.
The Sun Will Rise
MA
They offer in-person groups all over MA and virtual meetings for those ages 18+ who have had someone die by overdose or substance related death. They have groups for grandparents, LGBTQ+ folks, a partner and spouse group, sibling loss, for those ages 18-35, a faith-based group, for people in recovery, etc.