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The Imagine Center in New Jersey is helping children and their families overcome grief through free peer support and counseling.

Lucia Isabel De Jesus lost her father when she was just 7 years old. As the days and months passed, she wondered if she would ever stop feeling overwhelmed with grief.

Relief came in the form of the Imagine Center, near her town of Mountainside, New Jersey. There, counselors and other kids grieving family members made her feel less alone.

"I didn't really feel my dad when he first was gone," she said, "but Imagine really helped me feel like he was here."

Imagine provides free grief support for more than 300 kids and families from 55 towns. They have rooms that help children and their parents tap into their emotions, including a creativity room with costumes, board games and a piano; several rooms to talk it out; and a "volcano room" with padded walls to release anger.

"Grief is not a disease or a disorder," Lindsay Schambach, Imagine Center founder, said. "It's not a diagnosis. When kids come to Imagine, they don't need to be cured or fixed. What they really need is community and space to share their experience of grief."

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