Helping children cope with grief.
About Us
The Origins
The Foundation (formerly known as the “McMullin Robertson Foundation”) was created in 1989 as a memorial to two Seattle attorneys who died from cancer within a short time of each other, Ken McMullin and Bill Robertson. Each left behind a family, between them, six children ages six months to seventeen years. As the families of Ken and Bill began the long process of grieving, they realized that no comprehensive grief support program existed in King County for children facing the death of a parent or other loved one. They decided that a fitting memorial to these two fathers would be the creation of a program that would provide anticipatory grief and bereavement counseling, free of charge, to children in King County who were struggling with the potentially-devastating emotional challenges of a loved one’s terminal illness and death. With generous support from Ken and Bill’s colleagues at Williams Kastner & Gibbs, and other family members and friends, the Safe Crossings Foundation was established.