A local nonprofit aimed at helping children with grief seeks to expand services.
Indianapolis Star
Often a taboo topic, at Brooke's Place children are encouraged to grieve openly as their learn healthy coping skills and to process death in plain language. Staff say that helps avoid confusion when parents, grandparents and siblings die. They don't pass away, fall asleep or push daisies. In the other direction, on the opposite side of the building, is the volcano room where kids can feel"big emotions." The walls are padded and deeply purple. A large mural of a volcano in brown, red and orange decorates one side. Children can beat things with pool noodles. They can spar with a punching bag, pop bubble wrap and rip newspapers.
Brooke's Place sprouted out of tragedy. On a rainy Halloween night in 1994, American Eagle Flight 4184 crashed in the middle of a soybean field near Roselawn, Indiana, killing. The domestic flight was traveling from Indianapolis to Chicago. One of the victims was DowElanco executive Thomas H. Wright.
Brooke's Place has expanded to five ongoing grief support groups that currently serve 459 kids and even more youth throughout the year. It offers ongoing group therapy services, BP8 outreach grief support, individualized and family therapy, and puts on Camp Healing Tree, a camp held one weekend a year for youth seven- to 17-years-old. The nonprofit is seeking to expand to the city's east side in the next year.
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