Go through our facilitator training and develop the skills and knowledge necessary to lead small groups of hurting hearts down the healing path. You will interact directly with program participants as they work through their grief. Strong bonds are formed as participants share a piece of their hearts with the group. You will walk away from serving touched by the lives that your servitude has impacted.

All volunteer facilitators at the The Hope & Healing Place receive training about grief & loss, small group leadership, and the needs of a child by their age. New facilitators are paired with legacy facilitators.

Serving as a Volunteer Facilitator in the our Programs is one way of sharing yourself with participants young and younger who have experienced a family death. As a Volunteer Facilitator at The Hope & Healing Place you will share your experience with volunteers and participants of the program you choose to facilitate.

Volunteers receive 20 hours of training prior to being assigned to the beginning of a family program cycle. The training curriculum covers general information about grief, support group leadership, our grief model and much more. Training is conducted one Friday evening and the following Saturday in August and January. Additional training is ongoing through articles, small groups, and electronic information.

There are two Generations Family Program cycles annually. One cycle begins in August and ends in early December and the second begins in February and ends in May.

A typical family night entails the following:

5:15-5:30 p.m.

Volunteers arrive.

-5:30-6:00 p.m.

Volunteers meet with your peer group leader and plan activities and supplies for the evening support group.

-6:00-6:30 p.m.

A common meal is served to children, parents, and volunteers.

-6:30-7:45 p.m.

Everyone goes to their age appropriate support group (Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, and 3 different parent groups). Our Program Directors have prepared specific activities for each age group and for each family night session.

-7:45-8:00 p.m.

Say goodbye for the evening to our children, teens, and families.

-8:00-8:30 p.m.

Volunteer Facilitators debrief the evening

As a trained facilitator, our volunteers may continue to register for our program cycle as well as other volunteer opportunities within The Hope & Healing Place. There are always opportunities for you to learn, serve, and grow at HHP. We hope you will consider joining the volunteer team at The Hope & Healing Place.

Hope Camp gives kids in Kindergarten - 6th grade an opportunity to spend time with other children who have lost loved ones and get what they are feeling as create masterpieces with their feet, pop balloons with their bottoms and devour a mammoth ice cream sundae.

We begin each family night with a meal before we go into our support groups. There is no family night without our food donors and servers! Businesses, Community Organizations, Church Groups, etc. are invited to provide and serve a meal to the families and volunteers before the family night support group.

For information about when meals are needed and what to bring, please visit our MEALTRAIN.

We are currently in need of a Hospitality Volunteer who can reach out to the community to round up meals for our family nights and oversee volunteers as they greet our families and serve the meals.

Are you a go getter? Ready, willing and able to solicit donations and make things happen? Or willing to work the day of the event to ensure things run smoothly for attendees? HHP does not charge participants for services so fundraisers play an important role. See our Special Events page to learn more about our FUNdraisers.

The Hope & Healing Place birdhouses are representative of each family that has come through our doors. We are always in need of individuals to build and donate birdhouses for our family night participants.

Help us keep our Memory Garden a place our past participants want to continue to visit. If you enjoy gardening, we’ve got something for you to do!