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Rick's Place, Inc.

ChildrenEducationHealthLife Skills
85 Post Office Park #8521, Wilbraham, MA 01095
Phone (413) 279 - 2010
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Our mission

Rick’s Place compassionately supports grieving children, teens and their families through facilitated peer activities, school-based programs and community outreach. Our goal is to provide a trusting environment in which participants who are grieving the death of a loved one can share their experiences, receive support and find comfort.
Opportunities

Facilitators

Volunteer facilitators lead discussions, play games, read stories and create arts and crafts with all the grieving young people in our program. With the help of our caring adult facilitators, participants make new friends and share about their experience of loss.
  • Occasional, Weekly
  • 21+, 55+, Adults
  • Individuals
  • Virtual, Indoor, Outdoor
  • Formal
  • Weekdays, Evenings, Weekends
How you help

Rick’s Place is deeply grateful for the incredible work of our volunteers. They are college interns and community members who serve as our group facilitators.
About us

At Rick’s Place, we know that grief is a natural expression of love for the person who has died. We do not try to make grief go away, but rather, children and families support one another on the path to healing during one of life’s most difficult experiences. Together, families learn to live on while living without. Our free grief support groups provide safe and respectful experiences for children and their families to begin to integrate their loss in healthy and meaningful ways and to feel less alone on their grief journey.