{"title":"Pickles Group","summary":"Peer groups for children and teens ages 6–18 whose parent or guardian has cancer, including ongoing groups for advanced illness and after a parent’s death.","body":"Pickles Group is a nonprofit focused on kids and teens living through a parent or guardian’s cancer. It works across cancer types.\n\n## What it offers\n\n- Connect Over Cancer: a five-week virtual group for ages 6–18, with activities and peer connection around a parent’s diagnosis.\n- Pickles Jars: monthly groups during the school year, with separate support for young people facing a parent’s complex or advanced cancer and those whose parent died from cancer.\n- A Family Cancer Support Kit in English and Spanish to help families talk about cancer with children.\n\n## How to start and what it costs\n\nUse the youth enrollment page or contact the team to ask which group fits your child. A care provider can also refer a family with permission. As of October 2026, Pickles lists these youth programs and the support kit as free.\n\nThe organization describes its programs as nationwide in the U.S.; ask about upcoming sessions, space, age-group placement and any location restrictions before enrolling. These are peer-support programs, rather than a replacement for a child’s individual mental-health care.\n\n## Other support here\n\nFor adult support groups or eligible individual counseling, see [CancerCare](/cancer/organizations/cancercare/). For an adult caregiver’s own mentor, see [Imerman Angels](/cancer/organizations/imerman-angels/).\n\n## Questions I would ask\n\n- Which program fits my child’s age and our family’s situation?\n- How do you group children by age and by what is happening at home?\n- What does participation involve for the child and parent?\n- Is there a wait for the next group?\n\n## Contacts\n\n- Website: [Pickles Group](https://www.picklesgroup.org/)\n- Program details: [Youth programs](https://www.picklesgroup.org/youth-programs)\n- Get started: [Youth enrollment](https://www.picklesgroup.org/youth-enrollment)\n- Email: contact@picklesgroup.org","topics":["expert-support","getting-started"],"capabilities":["patient-support","emotional-support"],"organizationType":"nonprofit","services":["peer-support","caregiver-support","grief-support"],"communityFocus":["Children and teens ages 6–18","Children of parents with cancer","Bereaved children and teens"],"sources":[{"id":"programs","label":"Youth programs","url":"https://www.picklesgroup.org/youth-programs","publisher":"Pickles Group","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","supports":"Youth peer-support program format, age groups and current enrollment paths.","type":"official"},{"id":"providers","label":"Programs, audience and referral routes","url":"https://www.picklesgroup.org/picklesclinicians","publisher":"Pickles Group","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","supports":"National nonprofit; U.S. nationwide families; ages 6–18; all cancer types; five-week virtual Connect Over Cancer; monthly advanced-illness/bereavement Pickles Jars; referral with permission; no charge as of October 2026.","type":"official"},{"id":"home","label":"Family kit and youth support","url":"https://www.picklesgroup.org/","publisher":"Pickles Group","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","supports":"Family Cancer Support Kit available in English and Spanish, digital or hard copy, without charge as of October 2026; children and teens affected by a parent/guardian cancer.","type":"official"}],"applicability":"For children and teens ages 6–18 whose parent or guardian has cancer, including advanced illness and bereavement; group fit and enrollment are confirmed by Pickles Group.","limitations":"Program information checked in October 2026. 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