The Highmark Caring Place, A Center for Grieving Children, Adolescents and Their Families, is a safe place where grieving children and families can come together and be with others who understand what they’re going through.

An essential community resource, the Caring Place offers services at no charge to grieving families from throughout the community. 

The Caring Place program began in 1996, with the first facility opening its doors in Pittsburgh in 1997. Other facilities followed in Erie, Harrisburg and Warrendale, Pa. Across the facilities, the program has served tens of thousands of family and community members.

The Highmark Caring Place provides peer support, where the children who attend come to know that they are not alone in their experiences and feelings. They and their families get support and encouragement from each other, facilitated by trained adult volunteers.

In addition to these peer support groups, the Caring Place provides educational programs, consultation services, presentations and resources for schools and other professionals in the community who work with children. The Caring Place continually works to raise awareness of the needs of grieving children and how to respond to those needs.

Resources:

• Children's Grief Awareness Day

• Grief Support Groups

• Grief and the Holidays