Who We Serve:
In 2025, Supporting Kidds served 590 children ages 5–18 and 179 caregivers, providing grief support through 16 center-based grief groups and 59 school-based groups. In addition, our team delivered 684 individual counseling sessions and consultations, ensuring children and families received timely, compassionate support throughout their grief journey.

In Delaware 1 in 10 or 21,000 children experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18. By age 25, that number more than doubles to 48,000. Delaware ranks #12 highest in the country and is higher than the national average when it comes to families experiencing childhood bereavement.

What We Do:
We help children and teens understand that grief is a normal response to loss by offering a safe space where they can learn positive coping skills and connect with others who understand. Through shared experiences, children support one another, strengthen social bonds, and develop confidence, purpose, and self-empowerment.

Grief is not an illness to be treated; it is a human process to be experienced.
Supporting Kidds follows a prevention-based model that facilitates healthy grief processing. By validating children’s experiences and emotions, we help protect children and families from the long-term effects of unexpressed or invalidated grief. We provide a safe, supportive environment where children can acknowledge their losses, develop effective coping tools, and grow through the grieving process.

Why It Matters:
We work to ease the immediate pain of grieving children while helping prevent the long-term emotional and behavioral challenges that can arise when grief goes unsupported. Children often lack the emotional tools, language, life experience, and authority needed to navigate significant loss on their own, making them deeply reliant on the adults and communities around them.
When grief is ignored or invalidated, it can become an obstacle rather than a healing process—leading to depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, strained relationships, and a lifelong sense of victimhood. 

Supporting Kidds addresses these risks by responding directly to community needs through ongoing grief groups, individual counseling, and Survival Kits that equip families and schools with practical tools to support grieving children immediately.