A Beacon of Hope and Healing for Western New York Families Opening in January 2025
Death is the ultimate life disruptor. There is no greater pain or stressor in our human experience than that of suffering the loss of someone we love. Compounding the depth of such a loss is the pain and isolation of having to navigate grief in a death-denying culture that finds discomfort in supporting others through these difficult times.
Since 2013, P.U.N.T. Pediatric Cancer Collaborative has stepped up to meet the needs of grieving parents and siblings who have suffered a loss to pediatric cancer through a network of peer support. Time and time again, we have witnessed the sacred relief and peace of those transcendent moments where vacant eyes of broken parents bearing the depths of unspeakable pain could finally lock eyes with another who has walked in their shoes, and with barely a word being uttered, find the gift of true understanding…