Workers collaborated with a union to create a community-based, multi-family group that addressed traumatic loss experienced by families of union members who were missing after 9-11. The purpose of the group was to create a supportive healing community around shared losses and to normalize the struggles that the families experienced both internally and externally. Three vital components of this group will be discussed; an evolving group structure, cultural awareness, and the workers' own group process.

Group workers in multicultural settings often work with groups in which multiple languages are used to communicate and in which translation is employed to aid understanding. This paper explores the consequences of different translation strategies on group processes, such as roles, mutual aid, and power dynamics. Attention is given to the values implied by how different languages are used in groups and to the dangerous possibility of recreating oppressive social dynamics in small groups.