Childhood Bereavement Changemakers
Empowering childhood bereavement organizations to use data, build evaluation capacity, and strengthen care nationwide
Meet the Changemakers | Changemaker Impact | Changemaker Stories
The Childhood Bereavement Changemakers (CBC) initiative is a national capacity-building program designed to strengthen evaluation practices across the childhood bereavement field. Launched by Judi’s House/JAG Institute in partnership with the New York Life Foundation and the National Alliance for Children’s Grief (NACG), Changemakers empowers organizations to use data more effectively to measure outcomes, demonstrate impact, and inform decision-making.
Through training, individualized support, and peer learning, participating organizations build the skills and systems needed to collect meaningful data, evaluate their programs, and tell compelling stories about the children and families they serve. By strengthening evaluation capacity, Changemakers helps organizations identify opportunities for growth, improve services, and make a stronger case for investment and support.
More than a professional development opportunity, Changemakers is cultivating a national community of leaders committed to learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Together, these organizations are advancing evidence-informed childhood bereavement care and strengthening support for grieving children and families across the country.
Strengthening Evaluation, Expanding Impact
Changemakers produces measurable improvements in organizational evaluation capacity. Participants also reported maintaining higher levels of evaluation readiness one year after completing the initiative, demonstrating that the skills and systems developed through Changemakers create lasting impact.
Meet the Changemakers
Cohort 6
Carson’s Village – Dallas, TX
Charleston Hope – Charleston, SC
Children’s Bereavement Center of Rio Grande Valley – Rio Grande Valley, TX
Collective for Hope – Omaha, NE
Gabby’s Grief Center– Monroe, MI
Henry Ford SandCastles – Detroit, MI
Hayden’s House of Healing – North Arlington, NJ
Hospice of the Piedmont – Charlottesville, VA
Tamarack Grief Resource Center – Missoula, MT
Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation – Porcupine, SD
Click here to view a list of all Changemaker alumni.
Changemaker Stories
The Childhood Bereavement Changemakers initiative gives your organization the tools and knowledge needed to showcase impact while teaching you how to collect and evaluate data effectively. The support from Judi’s House staff and the connection with others in this field is incredible.
– Cohort 5 Changemaker
More Changemaker Stories
In 2019, 10 passionate Changemakers from across the country were selected to pilot the CBC initiative. Over the next two years, we worked closely with each organization to develop tailored reports and insights that informed planning, strengthened funding efforts, inspired change, and expanded their impact on grieving children and families.
Explore the stories below to meet some of our first Changemakers and see how they turned data into action.
Judi’s House/JAG Institute partnered with the New York Life Foundation to help support grieving children and families by creating the Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model.