Common Ground Grief Center
(732) 606-7477
Manasquan
Camp Common Ground will be offered on July 17th, 2024 at Oak Tree Lodge in Wall Township for kids and teens. This is a one day bereavement camp. If interested in attending or volunteering, please contact [email protected]
The mission of Common Ground is to provide support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults and their families grieving a death can come together and share their experiences as they begin the journey through the grief process.
Common Ground is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization located in Manasquan, New Jersey. Our “home” is a beautiful and charming house that features rooms specifically designed to be utilized by the participants of our program. Each room offers a different modality for children and teens to express their feelings in age-appropriate ways. These include our talking circle, music, art, sand-play, puppetry, gross motor activity and full scale “play” hospital rooms.
Our program is modeled after Dougy Center of Portland, Oregon.
We provide open-ended peer support groups for children ages 6-18 as well as a young adult support group for ages 19-30. We believe in supporting the family as a whole and therefore offer a concurrent adult support group which meets at the same time, for the caregiver of the child or teen who is participating in our program. Groups meet every other week in the evening. Our services are provided free of cost to participating families. Children and teens are assigned to groups according to age.
All of our groups are facilitated by trained volunteers, who must complete a comprehensive training program to prepare them for the sensitive nature of our program.
Children and teens must have experienced the death of a parent, primary caregiver or sibling to be eligible for our groups.
We also offer training sessions to local agencies, organizations, and schools in need of our expertise as well as educational materials about children and grief.
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Last Updated: 04/09/24