Support Grieving Children and Families at Highmark Caring Place

The work, commitment, and presence of caring adult volunteers is the heart of the Highmark Caring Place. The volunteers make a lasting impact on children and adults who are grieving.

Grieving children and families at the Caring Place find that they are not alone in their grief. And they find help and support in the midst of their grief. In addition to the other children and families supporting them, helping them, and showing them that they're not alone, grieving families are also in a place where caring and committed adults volunteer their time.

No special experience is needed to volunteer at the Caring Place. What is needed is a willingness to listen and to support the children and adults. After completing a comprehensive 26-hour training program, and submitting background checks, the volunteers work in a number of ways with the families.

Volunteers facilitate activities with children or adults while in their peer groups, volunteers are also important in greeting the families as they enter the building and in serving dinner to the families. Volunteers also sew together the Caring Place memory quilts, made up of the squares which the families lovingly and beautifully decorate in memory of their loved ones.

1 shift available:

• 17:30 to 21:00 EST