4 Elm Street | Kingston, MA 02364 | 781-585-4221
Hope Floats Building
Hope Floats Main House
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Hope Floats Wellness Barn
The Hope Floats Mission
Hope Floats is a bereavement and educational center for adults, children, teens, and their families who are grieving, dealing with illness or facing other life challenges. We offer free support services that bring hope and healing to those in need.
Watch our Hope Floats video created by Jacob Barr
Support Services
Our support services are free of charge and open to the community. Hope Floats offers peer-led support groups for adults in a safe environment where people are able to share and process their grief with others facing similar losses. Our facilitators are trained volunteers who often have experienced a loss similar to the group members. We believe that the peer-led groups for adults help members move forward in their grief journeys as they connect with group leaders in meaningful ways.
Hope Floats also offers Mike's Club, support groups for children, teens, and parenting adults coping with death related loss. We offer a group for sibling loss and one for loss of a parent/caregiver. The children process their grief through activities, arts and crafts, and games with the help of trained support staff, therapists and social workers.
We also offer a Mike's Club program to children who have a parent/caregiver who is dealing with cancer or a life limiting illness.
Our day-long support retreats enable people with similar losses or those who are dealing with an illness to gather together. These retreats include yoga, meditation, group discussion and mini-body treatments.
Hope Floats is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) public charity. All of our funding comes from grants, fundraisers and private donations.mFor a list our our support groups, retreats and guest speaker events click here Support Programs and Services
About Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center
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Hope Floats film created by Andrew Lowery and Justin Maloney, January 2015
In 2008 Ken and Denise Brack created Hope Floats in memory of their son Michael, who passed in 2002. Having learned how such a loss is devastating and isolating, they wanted to offer support and resources to others going through a similar crisis. Today the center offers a variety of free support groups, support retreats and complementary wellness classes, body treatments and workshops.
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Grant Partners
We are grateful for the support from the following organizations:
Hope Floats 6th 
Annual Memory Walk
A walk to remember our loved ones.
Thanks to all of you who came out to walk!
A special thanks to our sponsors!
Gold Sponsors
R.H. Burpee Companies & Airport Mini Storage ~ Jonathan Rizzo Memorial Foundation ~ Kiwanis Club of Kingston/Duxbury In Memory of John Corr Strategic Financial Services ~ In Memory of Jared Lewis Quirk ~ Dunkin Donuts Hanover/Sardinha Family Trust ~ Emma Ryan Memorial ~ Bob Brack and Janet Bailey In Memory of Joan H. Brack and Michael Brack
Silver Partners
Christo-Tyrrell Insurance Agency Inc. ~ Kate McCarthy Memorial Fund ~ Bartlett Consolidated ~ Rejuvenations Salon & Day Spa In Memory of Tina Nickerson ~ Citizens Bank ~Cartmell – Davis Funeral & Cremation
Benefactors
North Light Financial Services In Memory of Jared Quirk ~ Mike and Erin Hourahan In Memory of Caden and Colby Hourahan ~ Cape Cod Select Premium Cranberries ~ The Warhaftig Family In Memory of Andrew Warhaftigh ~ Law office of George H. Boerger ~ Shepherd Funeral Homes ~ IMTRA Marine Products
Friends
The Corr Family In Memory of John Corr Dee Davidson, Simply Soothing Sanctuary In Memory of Karyn Smith ~ Sue Anderson & Bill Fleming In Memory of Ian Fleming ~ Rhonda Vickery In Memory of Nicole Vickery-Brooks ~ Fonseca Family In Memory of Michael Brack ~ The Woerdeman Financial Group ~ Kingston Permanent Firefighters L2337 ~ Baystate Insurance Associates ~Design Principles ~ Sugar Plum Bakery ~ 3 Jakes Screenprinting
10th Year Gala
"A Decade of Hope"
Thanks to you all who volunteer and came out to join us for our Gala. It was a great success and we hope to start work on the Mike's Club Family Room this winter. Your support means so much to the children, teens and families who attend our programs. Thank You!
The American Red Cross Hero Award
Presented to Denise Brack, April 13, 2016
Some of our Hope Floats Team
Linda Sheldon, Denise & Ken Brack