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Volunteers

On this special page for Highmark Caring Place volunteers, you'll find information that will be helpful to you in facilitating your peer support groups.

In the top section are documents with general information about preparing for and managing your groups.

Following that are group activities from the Children's Activity Manual.

You can arrange the activities in three different ways:

  • By Type (that is, by their relationship to the Grief Spiral)
  • By Age Group
  • By Category (e.g. "Group Discussion & Interview Activities," "Exploring the Caring Place Facility," etc.)

You are also able to add a new activity of your own by completing the form provided.

Documents & Training

Activities

We have captured activities that have been adapted and readapted where the original source is unknown. Although we can't credit all ideas back to their original sources, we thank all who have, knowingly and unknowingly, contributed to the creation of this compilation of activities whose purpose is to provide an outlet for grieving children and facilitate discussion within a peer support group.

The activities are presented with the ultimate goal that the volunteers' choices to use them will be led by themes of the grief spiral, the nature of the group and the individual children in the group.

Submit your own activity.

View activities by:

Note: For all activities, please remember to have children put their names on their projects. Names are important for week-to-week identification of the items left at the Caring Place.

*Note, activities marked with an asterick indicate those that can be used with caution in this age group of working with an older, more mature group within the age group. Please consult with a staff member prior to using these activities to discuss how to adapt them so that they are age appropriate.

For all activities, please remember to have children put their names on their projects. Names are important for week-to-week identification of the items left at the Caring Place.

*Note, activities marked with an asterick indicate those that can be used with caution in this age group of working with an older, more mature group within the age group. Please consult with a staff member prior to using these activities to discuss how to adapt them so that they are age appropriate.

For all activities, please remember to have children put their names on their projects. Names are important for week-to-week identification of the items left at the Caring Place.

Y = Young; P = Preschool; M = Middle; T = Teen; A = Adult