Organization Details:

Our mission is to meet bereaved children and families wherever they are in their grief and fulfill their needs in a caring and knowledgeable environment through services to help them with their emotional journey and financial assistance to aid their future education. A Caring Hand also opened and operates the only comprehensive, free-standing bereavement center in Manhattan.

Description and/or History:
A Caring Hand opened and operates the only comprehensive, free-standing bereavement center in Manhattan: A Caring Hand, The Billy Esposito Bereavement Center. The Bereavement Center helps children, teens, caregivers, teachers and professionals learn healthy ways of dealing with grief. Services focus on expression, coping, remembering and community building – the essential components of grief work – using child-friendly activities including art, games and writing. We also help caregivers understand their own feelings, the grief journey of their child and how to feel confident parenting in the aftermath of a death. We help children manage the pain of their past and find joy to take them into the future. ACH also awards educational scholarships to bereaved children who may have otherwise lost the opportunity to pay tuition with the passing of a parent.

Contact person: Virginia Dawson, Volunteer Manager, (email)

Address:

1375 Broadway, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10018 (See a map)