Mission: The Wellness Community - Greater Boston helps people with cancer and their loved ones enhance health and well-being by providing a professional program of support, education and hope. All programs are provided free of charge.

Kids Count Too! is a program for children ages 4 -12 who have a parent with cancer. Led by licensed psychotherapists, these activity groups provide children with an opportunity to express the range of feelings they experience surrounding their parent's diagnosis. The Wellness Community brings in specialized instructors to do an opening activity with the children such as painting or yoga. This program helps reduce isolation and restore hope, as children realize they are not alone in having a parent with cancer.

Kids Count Too! meets monthly, and at each session, teen counselors are present to assist with activities and provide individual support to children. Each of these remarkable teens also has a parent with cancer, which allows them to serve as role models for the younger children while sharing their own experiences.

     

For more information, visit us online at www.wellnesscommunity.org

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