The following are goals that participants can expect to be met by the Pathfinders Program.

• To provide support groups for children, their families, and caregivers who have experienced a death of an important person in their lives.
• To help children and adults understand the emotional, behavioral, physical, social, and spiritual responses related to loss.
• To help children and their families develop strategies for coping, communicating, and healing as a family.
• To assist in defining a "new normal" in the children's and families' lives.
• To help children acknowledge the death, feel the feelings, preserve memories, and move forward.
• To provide parents/caregivers support and knowledge so they may better aid their child in the healing journey.
• To assist in preventing any significant problems that can develop from unresolved childhood grief from death and loss.
• To encourage families that seek a grief support group, yet, who may not be ready for a peer group setting, to get connected with other social service agencies or independent counselors to better meet their needs at the time.
• To provide outreach in the form of grief education to schools in an effort to empower teachers and staff to feel comfortable and confident in their ability to assist grieving children.
• To increase the community's awareness and capacity to serve the needs of grieving children through the offering of education, grief resources and support groups for children and their families/caregivers.