"Take Good Care" Packs Program --MGH program that provides backpacks of information and expressive therapy tools for children and adults dealing with serious illness or death of a family member.
Healthcare Toolbox - patient education handouts and workbooks; helping children and families cope with illness and injury. (Developed in collaboration with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's Medical Trauma Working Group, as part of the Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress Toolkit for Health Care Providers. Supported through funding from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration [SAMHSA]).
MGH SibShops - offers brothers and sisters who have a sibling with medical needs and complexities the opportunity to obtain peer support and education within a recreational context.
No Empty Bedsides- partners with MGHfC Pedi Palliative care to offer solutions to parents who wish to stay at their child’s bedside but are unable to do so for various personal and financial reasons.
Respite Homes Program - Program Closed. Healthcare for the Homeless' partner agency, MENTOR, unable to meet the need. Healthcare for the Homeless will inform us if reopens. (6/15)
Foster care for children when a parent needs hospitalization. This is independent of the DCF system, which may allay some parent's concerns that their children will be permanently separated from them.
