Pay It Forward: Capital Caring Health helps children cope with the loss of a parent

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The pain of losing a parent is something no child should have to endure.

It’s a pain that the Rios and Elm families are experiencing every single day after losing their fathers to illness.

But services provided by Capital Caring Health is helping them heal through art therapy.

Capital Caring Health helps children cope with the loss of a parent

Capital Caring Health is helping children who have lost a parent to heal through the use of art therapy.

For several months, art therapist Monica Delaney has had to pack up art supplies and other tools and travel to the children’s homes to help them work through their grief and trauma, but on Thursday, all that changed.

Staff at the non-profit identified a room that would make a perfect art therapy room, but they didn’t have the money to purchase the items to go into the room.

That’s where the FOX 5 Pay It Forward crew stepped in and helped transform the space into a beautiful, functional art room.

Easterns Automotive Group purchased over $7,000 worth of furniture, books, and art supplies.

Capital Caring Health provides grief and hospice services for children

Capital Caring Healthy is helping to Pay It Forward by providing grief and hospice services for children in Northern Virginia.

Their team along with Capital Caring Health staff transformed the room in under an hour to surprise the children still working through their loss.

They also gave Sonny Elm a personal art kit and Abi and Nick Rios gaming cards to use with the gaming system their dad gave them before he passed away.

If you know someone who should be featured on Pay It Forward, you can nominate them here. In your email, be sure to include who they are and why they deserve to be recognized.