The Honor Kids Pledge
We Are United in our Dedication to Child Bereavement Support
Who We Are
Partnering to build a world where every child affected by death receives care, comfort, and support
We are a group of community members: moms, dads, teachers, educators, volunteers, child grief counselors, funeral professionals, and people with complex bereavement experience, that have come together to facilitate child well-being in the face of bereavement.
Our robust board and volunteer administrative team leverages community relationships, cost effective methods, in-house technology, to design, pilot, develop, and deliver effective programs to support grieving children.
Our Approach
Helping Christmas Feel Whole Again
HonorKids partners with Funeral Homes, Child Grief counselors, Social Workers, and other programs to deliver Christmas to children that lost one or both parents in the past three years
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— Our Mission
HonorKids facilitates Child Well-Being in the face of parental death through bereavement support; giving grieving families one less thing to worry about.
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— Our Vision
We envision a world where every child affected by death receives care, comfort, and support
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— Our Story
HonorKids began with a story from a widow at the Honorable Legacy Widow Support group:
Christine, shared with the Widows group how the Christmas after her husband died, she could not find the strength to take over her husband’s role as Santa.
Her three children could not understand why Santa deserted them in the same year their father died….
We realized then how difficult grief is for children over the holidays and vowed to create a program to help