About us

A crowd of people clapping and cheering at the 2022 Cape & Islands Suicide Awareness Walk

Sharing Kindness is building a grief-sensitive and suicide-aware Cape & Islands community.

WHAT WE DO

Both our community and the world as a whole are still learning how to support grievers and those who have been affected by suicide. Our goal as a nonprofit is to inspire courageous conversation – dialogue addressing these often taboo subjects – by providing education and programs for grievers and their support networks. Many who are affected by grief and suicide also struggle with mental health; we want to eliminate the stigma around getting help, so that those who need it can reach out more confidently. 

The following are just a handful of the ways we have worked to spread our message and provide education and programming throughout the Cape & Islands:

  • Partnering with schools and community programs, in addition to collaborating with other nonprofits, to educate, advocate and prevent suicide, including school suicide prevention policies. 
  • Educating community members on how to reach in, if they suspect that someone may be suicidal. 
  • Reviewing and distributing best practice policies for print and spoken media around news coverage of suicide. 
  • Offering grief programming throughout the Cape and Islands, with curriculum developed and overseen by our licensed mental health clinician.

‣View our 2025 Annual Impact Report

Our Dream: The Healing House, the Cape & Islands’ First Grief and Healing Center

Our goal at Sharing Kindness is to open a grief and healing center to serve the Cape and Islands, based on the Dougy Center model. Until we have our home, we will continue developing and offering programming and community forums to normalize the conversation around brain health, suicide prevention and grief.  Learn more about The Healing House >>