There is no more room for tears -- literally.

The Good Grief Center for Bereavement Support will open its new 3,200-square-foot location today in Squirrel Hill to accommodate a growing demand for its services.

Lulu Orr, executive director, founded Pittsburgh's only comprehensive center for bereavement in the fall 2000. Its mission is to create a center that builds a more compassionate community through grief awareness, education, support and hope. Since it opened, the center has served as a resource and referral center for more than 15,000 people and has outgrown its original location in the Carnegie Library of Homestead in Munhall.

"We need to move for physical reasons because we need the space but it also gives us an opportunity to move somewhere more accessible and visible," Ms. Orr said.

The new building is at 2717 Murray Ave. as part of the Shops at the Morrowfield, just a few storefronts toward Greenfield from the former Poli's restaurant. Center officials chose this location because of its better visibility and accessibility than what the Munhall location offered.

"We also needed somewhere people felt safe going to because some support groups are in the evening," she said.

In addition, the new location will allow the center to better fulfill the needs of its clients and provide a larger, more comfortable space to hold training workshops for the center's 21 volunteers.

These volunteers are crucial to operating the center's services of peer support, support groups and providing grieving individuals with comprehensive resources that cater to their needs. All of these services still will be available in the new location but may be expanded depending upon the response of the Squirrel Hill community.

"We want to expand based on the community and with the community. We have a very collaborative spirit," Ms. Orr said.

Establishing a relationship with the community is important to the center because news of most of its services have spread by word of mouth. In addition, center officials have a better idea of what the community needs.

"We try to be open-minded and come up with creative ways to deal with grief. Everybody suffers differently. Some find healing in writing, drawing and etc. There is no one way to grieve," Ms. Orr said.

The center also is seeking to create bonds with local businesses to help employees cope with a loss of a loved one or friend in their personal life or a colleague in the workplace. The new location will provide more space for workshops that help business personnel cope with grieving.

"We used to have these programs already but now we can do it in a bigger way," she said.

To contact the Good Grief Center or to learn more about its services, call 412-224-4700 or visit its Web site at www.goodgriefcenter.com. General operating hours are Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., as well as some evening hours.