Program Support

Whether you’re leading a group, walking alongside someone one-on-one, sharing your story, or providing access to our care packages, you help grieving parents feel truly seen, heard, and supported. We’ll equip you with the compassion, clarity, and care to make that connection meaningful and lasting.

You offer something sacred: connection.

Facilitator | Mentor | Storyteller

Facilitator

Facilitators hold space for individuals navigating loss by leading compassionate, peer-based grief cohorts—virtually or in person. These groups offer a structured yet gentle place for connection and healing.
  • Remote or Local
  • Licensed therapist, grief-informed coach, clergy, death doula, or other trained grief professional
  • Experienced in supporting individuals through grief (personal loss is preferred)
  • Skilled at facilitating conversations on grief, trauma, and healing
  • Able to provide inclusive support for all types of loss, including early loss, TFMR, stillbirth, and neonatal death
  • Emotionally grounded, with strong boundaries and communication skills
  • Committed to continued education around pregnancy/infant loss, trauma, and grief
  • Available to lead at least one full 7-week group per year
  • Co-facilitate a 6–7 week virtual or in-person grief cohort
  • Create a nonjudgmental, inclusive, and trauma-informed group space
  • Attend one virtual facilitator training per year
  • Communicate availability for each cohort season in advance
  • Maintain confidentiality and uphold MPSG community guidelines
  • Offer feedback on group format/content and submit a short summary after each cohort concludes

Mentor

Mentors offer one-on-one emotional support to individuals who are pregnant after loss. Through consistent, gentle communication, they provide encouragement, validation, and hope—often when it’s needed most.
  • Remote pr Local
  • Personally experienced pregnancy or infant loss
  • In a healthy emotional space to support others
  • Compassionate, grounded, and an active listener
  • Organized and able to commit to regular check-ins
  • Comfortable connecting via phone, text, email, or video
  • Aligned with the mission and values of MPSG
  • Mentor 1–3 individuals for six months
  • Check in consistently based on mentee’s preferred method and pace
  • Organize one in-person social event annually for local mentees (if applicable)
  • Provide gentle, peer-based emotional support
  • Flag any concerns to the MPSG team as needed
  • Uphold confidentiality and model healthy boundaries

Storyteller

Whether through lived experience or professional insight, Storytellers use their voice to foster understanding, comfort, and connection. Stories may be shared through writing, speaking, or other creative formats.
  • Remote or Local
  • Lived or professional experience related to pregnancy or infant loss
  • Willing to share your story or expertise publicly
  • Clear communicator with a supportive, inclusive tone
  • Comfortable using formats such as blog posts, video, podcast, speaking, or panels
  • Contribute at least one story annually in any of the following formats:
    • Blog post
    • Short video
    • Podcast appearance
    • Panel or speaking engagement
    • Guest speaker at a HAL support meetup
  • Coordinate topic and timing with the MPSG team
  • Share content that respects your own emotional boundaries and those of others
  • Uphold respectful, inclusive storytelling practices

Provisioner | Creator

Provisioner

Provisioners provide tangible support to families experiencing pregnancy or infant loss. By helping assemble, collect, and distribute care packages, they ensure families receive meaningful items that offer comfort, reassurance, and a sense of being cared for
  • Remote or Local
  • Organized, proactive, and reliable
  • Comfortable organizing, sorting, and packaging items
  • Aligned with the mission and values of MPSG
  • Sort and track inventory
  • Assist with assembling care packages
  • Collect items or donations from local partners or collection points
  • Prepare boxes for shipping or delivery to distributors
  • Deliver boxes to distributors or post office
  • Support MPSG team in ensuring packages reach families in a timely manner

Creator

Creators provide the essential materials that make our care packages possible. By sewing pillowcases, they ensure we have the foundation needed to create pillows through community engagement efforts like Hands of Hope projects.
  • Remote or local
  • Owns or has access to a sewing machine and/or appropriate fabric
  • Creative, detail-oriented, basic sewing skills and reliable
  • Able to commit to ongoing or batch contributions
  • Aligned with the mission and values of MPSG
  • Produce skill-needed comfort items for care packages (primarily pillowcases; optionally base ornaments)
  • Support community engagement efforts by providing the base for Hands of Hope creative projects
  • Work independently or in small groups to complete projects
  • Prepare items so they are ready for finishing and inclusion in care packages
  • Contribute to maintaining a consistent supply of comfort items that sustain the care package program and support volunteer-led projects

Ready to Connect?

Thank you for your interest in supporting Missing Pieces Support Group

This form helps us learn more about how you'd like to get involved - whether through events, programs, or ongoing volunteer roles. A member of our team will follow up as opportunities align with your interests and availability.

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Tell Us a Little More About You

To help us align you with the most appropriate volunteer roles, please share your relevant skills, experience, language abilities.

We also ask questions to help us better understand who we’re reaching and to support our grant applications, so we can continue improving access to care and support for everyone in our community. For these, answer only what you’re comfortable with.

Do you speak Spanish?
How did you hear about Missing Pieces Support Group?
Gender
We know gender identity is diverse and these labels may not reflect everyone’s experience. Our database currently only supports the options above, though we recognize they are not fully inclusive.
Race/Ethnicity
Our programs are free thanks to grant funding from foundations that require us to share demographic information. By answering, you help us show the reach and impact of MPSG, which makes it possible to continue offering support at no cost. We’re grateful for your help.
To help us better understand who we’re reaching, feel free to share any other communities or experiences you identify with that are meaningful to you (e.g., cultural background, LGBTQ+, faith, veteran, health conditions, etc.)
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