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
Hope Floats’ free support services continue to grow in response to the pressing needs of our community. We offer peer-led support groups for adults and families in a safe environment where participants share and process their grief with others. Our goal is to help children, adults, and families cope with their grief in healthy ways.
Hope Floats currently provides fifteen groups for a variety of losses, led by trained peer facilitators who often have shared experiences with group members. These include groups for adults who have lost a loved one to suicide, overdose or addiction, partner-spouse loss, sibling loss for young adults, and men who have lost a child.
In addition, Hope Floats also offers Mike's Club, a growing support group for children, teens, and their families, including parenting adults. Entire families may gather in this setting alongside others coping with either the loss of a child or parent. Mike’s Club provides separate groups for sibling loss and one for the death 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.
We are grateful to continue this outreach into Hope Floats’ eleventh year.
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 for a list of support services.
About Hope Floats Healing & Wellness Center
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.
Grant Partners
We are grateful for the support from the following organizations:
Hope Floats 7th Annual Memory Walk - A walk to remember our loved ones
Save the Date...April 25, 2020!
The American Red Cross Hero Award
Presented to Denise Brack, April 13, 2016
Some of our Hope Floats Team
Linda Sheldon, Denise & Ken Brack