Families Reaching Into Each New Day

Rhode Island’s only bereavement center dedicated to serving children and teens, ages three to eighteen, and their families.

 

Adam D-F. Stevens, MA, RDT

2024 FRIENDS WAY Conference:
TRANScendence: Rising above Binary Bias

Thursday, November 14, 2024
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Live Webinar via Zoom

Supporting trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming youth to uncover and transform spoken and unspoken messages allows them to reauthor and reclaim their challenging narratives of grief and loss. Join FRIENDS WAY and presenter Adam D-F. Stevens (they | them), MA, RDT, a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) who works primarily with adolescents in the Tri-state area, for our 2024 professional development conference. The presentation will be followed by a panel of community professionals who work closely with the LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults.


Holistic, Healing Bereavement Programs

Camp Starfish in the News

FRIENDS WAY offers groups for children and their families following the death of a significant person in their lives, all at no cost.

Camp Starfish, FRIENDS WAY’s three-day summer camp for children and teens, was featured on NBC10 News.


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Mackenzie’s Story

“it didn’t take long to realize that, as they are in their group, we sit around as a group of parents, who are all experiencing the same thing with our children. We’re in the same boat. We can lean on each other.”

Read Mackenzie’s story.