Supporting Kidds

Supporting Kidds is a center for grieving children and their families in Hockessin, Delaware. The organization provides peer support groups and individual counseling to children who have lost a parent or sibling, along with the caregivers and families who support them. In 2025, Supporting Kidds served 590 children and 170 caregivers, offered 59 grief groups in schools, hosted 16 grief groups at its center, and provided 684 individual counseling sessions. Its mission is to give grieving children and their families a compassionate pathway to healing while empowering the surrounding community to support them through the grieving process.

Supporting Kidds began in 1989 as a small grassroots organization modeled after the Dougy Center in Oregon, offering peer support groups using leased and donated space in the local community. In 2006, the organization purchased and renovated a free-standing center for grieving children and their families, opening a new chapter in its work across Delaware. It is the only nonprofit in the state devoted solely to supporting grieving children and their families. The team is led by Executive Director Louise Cummings, an attorney and child advocate who has managed the organization since 2021, and Clinical Director Alexa Ujlaky, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who joined in 2021 and holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from West Chester University. Annual events include a Golf Tournament, the Hearts That Heal Gala, and the Highmark 5K, alongside family healing events held at the center and throughout the community.

The center is located on Old Lancaster Pike, near Lancaster Pike and Yorklyn Road, about 0.4 miles from Swift Memorial Park and the Hockessin Public Library.

Supporting Kidds holds a rating of 4.90, reflecting the experiences of the families who have turned to it during some of the most difficult moments of their lives.