Since 2005, the Good Mourning Support Group at Akron Children’s has provided a compassionate space for children and families to navigate their grief together. According to the group’s facilitator, Nancy Carst, LISW-S, CT, who is also one of the hospital’s bereavement coordinators, “The program is designed to help children, and their parents and extended families, […]
Good Mourning grief support now available in Spanish
To help children and their parents cope with the death of a loved one, Akron Children’s offers a six-week Good Mourning support group. These support services are open to all families, not just those who have experienced a loss associated with our hospital. Recently these services were expanded to include sessions in Spanish. “For Spanish-speaking […]









