Grieving families join other families at the Caring Place so that children of all ages, as well as adults, can meet together with their peers who have also experienced a death. Fifteen to 20 families come together for ten meetings every other week over four or five months.

Children meet together with their peers, and with trained adult volunteers, to share together their memories, their feelings and their experiences.

Traveling their roads of grief together, the children gather for fun times and deep times, able to laugh together and cry together after they've built trust in each other.

Children are encouraged by trained adult volunteers to find many ways to express their grief, from art, puppets, and telling stories, to writing on the wall-boards and sharing photographs of the person who died.

All members of a family come to the Caring Place, including the youngest. Here in the Preschool Room, children use play and art to express their own grief.

Parents and guardians of the children who come also attend, sharing their own grief with one another, as well as the ups and downs of living as a single parent or holding the household together after a child has died.