Resources

Recommended Websites

  • National Alliance for Grieving Children
    The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC) is a nonprofit organization that raises awareness about the needs of children and teens who are grieving a death. The alliance’s nationwide network of professionals, institutions and volunteers promote best practices, educational programming, and critical resources to facilitate the mental, emotional, and physical health of grieving children and their families.

  • Comfort Zone
    Comfort Zone Camp is a bereavement camp for children and teen who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or primary caregiver.

  • Dougy Center
    The mission of Dougy Center is to provide grief support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families can share their experiences before and after a death. The Center’s peer grief support model has helped hundreds of thousands of people in need of bereavement support and services across the world.

  • Good Grief
    Good Grief builds resilience in children, strengthens families, and empowers communities to grow from loss and adversity. The organization’s vision is to provide innovative and comprehensive care to children and families through peer support, education, and advocacy, which includes program expansion throughout New Jersey so that no child ever has to grieve alone.

  • Rainbows for All Children (Rainbows)
    Rainbows for All Children (Rainbows) is dedicated to being the premier source of support for all youth as they navigate grief and heal from loss, whether from death, divorce, deployment, or other trauma. Rainbows fosters awareness that youth require support to heal, and nurtures a community of Rainbows-trained facilitators, supported with a repository of resources designed to guide youth in their grieving process.

  • The Coalition to Support Grieving Students
    The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a unique collaboration of the leading professional organizations representing classroom educators whose purpose is to create and share a set of industry-endorsed resources that will empower school communities across America in the ongoing support of their grieving students.

65%

agree that after their
parent died, they felt
like there was no one
they could talk to.

Nearly 80%

of those who lost a parent
growing up agree that
the experience was the
hardest thing they have
ever had to face.

56%

of those who lost a
parent growing up say
that their peers didn’t
know how to act around
them after the loss.

1 in 15 children in Massachusetts will experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18 *

* Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model (CBEM) developed by Judi’s House/JAG Institute www.judishouse.org/CBEM. See: Massachusetts

Cited statistics reflect findings from the New York Life Foundation’s 2017 Bereavement Survey as well as a 2012 survey of educators conducted by the New York Life Foundation in partnership with the American Federation of Teachers. See: Childhood grief: a pervasive problem

Casey's Place provides a free peer community for children and teens, ages 7-17, who have experienced the death of a parent or guardian.

We are currently serving the communities of Beverly, Danvers, Essex, Gloucester, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Rockport.

Now Accepting
Members

Volunteers Needed

Casey's Place is seeking caring adults (21+) to volunteer. You don't need to have experienced the loss of a parent or guardian, you just need to be open to helping children and teens on their grief journey.