BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Western New York Compassion Connection Center for grieving children and families will officially open their doors Wednesday in Lancaster.
Establishing the building itself took about 11 months, but this is a process that has been in on the minds of founders Gwen Mysiak and Jonathan McGrath for years.
“There’s a lot of data, you know, that points to the fact that peer support, especially for grieving children or parents who have suffered the loss of a child, is really effective, and we’ve certainly seen that over the last 11 years, that we’ve been running peer support for pediatric cancer loss through PUNT,” said Mysiak…