Apply now to volunteer as a Youth Program Facilitator with Pickles Group! Applications for our fall programming are due by midnight Central Time on Monday, August 29.

As an organization grounded in community, gratitude, and love through hardship, we are grieving the profound loss of life that has occurred this month.

Pickles Group is thrilled to advance and compete in the University of Chicago Booth’s Social New Venture Challenge in the Spring of 2022 alongside other innovative social impact start-ups.

Pickles Group Youth Volunteers, with backgrounds in youth development and education, shine in new roles as Pickles Group facilitators.

Chicagoland magazine Sheridan Road talks to Pickles Group Founder Erika Hlavacek in their February 2022 health issue.

University of Chicago Booth Students partnered with Pickles Group to use both quantitative and qualitative data and research to better understand family cancer prevalence throughout Chicago.

Thanks to the Chicago Tribune for writing about Pickles Group.

We hope you'll consider supporting our growing community on Giving Tuesday.

Is your family navigating a parent, guardian, or caregiver's cancer? Do you know a family who is? We invite you to meet the Pickles Group community at our first virtual family gathering, Pickles Connect.

At Pickles Group, we’re proud that our founding Chief Clinical Program Officer, Kelsey Mora, and many of our volunteers bring a background in Child Life, a specialty that many families may not be familiar with. While our programs are designed to be facilitated by volunteers who may or may not have this expertise, we are excited to share more about one type of experience our team brings to Pickles programming for kids and teens. So what’s a child life specialist anyway?