After the loss of a significant loved one, life is never the same. Our goal at the Children's Bereavement Center (CBC) is to enable children and families to acknowledge change and integrate loss with healthful grief and mourning.

The CBC, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation, is a comprehensive, multicultural, community-based, bereavement support, education, and resource center. The CBC provides peer support groups for children elementary through college to share their loss experience, whether recent or in years past, with other grieving children. The CBC promotes the principles supported by research that grieving is a normal, natural process and that people have the ability to heal from their loss at their own unique pace and in their own style. This process is enhanced within a caring, relaxed, and accepting environment.

Concurrent education and peer support groups are provided for parents, caregivers, and any other adult who plays a significant role in the child's life. These groups enable adults to better understand the bereavement process through the eyes of their children. Within this supportive milieu, adults may share and help normalize this experience for themselves and their family.

Participants gain a better understanding of their own experience and learn to empathize with one another, contributing to self-esteem, trust and hope for the future.