Resources for Children

Resources for Children http://humanityquest.com/topic/art_activities/index.asp?theme1=grief

This resource has different art activities to use with all levels regarding grief and loss www.aboutourkids.org/aboutour/articles/grief.html

Children and Grief: What They Know, How They Feel, How to Help www.barrharris.org

The Barr-Harris Children’s Grief Center, located in Chicago, serves children ages 2-18 dealing with death, divorce, separation, or abandonment. www.beyondindigo.com/children

Beyond Indigo – Death and Dying: Grieving Children www.childbereavement.org

The Children’s Bereavement Center is located in Miami, Fl and provides free peer support groups for children, teens, and young adults who are grieving over the death of someone close to them. Also offer services to families, caregivers, parents, schools, and the community. http://www.childgrief.org

Child Grief

Great resource for grief and loss including activities for all levels. Also assists how to help children developmentally following a death. www.cincinnatichildrens.org

National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement www.compassionbooks.com

Compassion books

This resource provides books, videos, and audio media for children and adults to help cope with serious illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement, divorce, suicide, trauma, and violence. www.confortzonecamp.org

Comfort Zone Camp This resource provides information about Comfort Zone Camp, a nonprofit camp for children ages 7-17, who have lost a parent, sibling, or primary care giver. These camps are located in Virginia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California. www.dougy.org

The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families

It provides a safe place for children, teens, and young adults and their families who are in the grief process to receive peer support and share experiences. http://www.eric.ed.gov

Grief Counseling Groups for Adolescents Based on Re-Membering Practices- Authors: Stephanie Granados, John Winslade, Megan De Witt, & Lorraine Hedtke www.griefnet.org

A community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss www.grievingchildren.org

The Center for Grieving Children, Teens and Families focus is to help children grieving a death to heal and grow. It provides peer support groups, grief conferences, and professional workshops. www.hospiceandlifecarecenter.org/Our-Services/Grief-Support.aspx

Sunrise Kids

Sunrise Kids is a program for children and adolescents who have experienced the death of loved one. www.kidsaid.com

Kids Aid

An online community for grieving children which offers an email support group, gives children a place to share and view their artwork and stories, and gives both kids and parents a place to ask questions and find answers. www.kidspath.com

Kids Path – a model of care for seriously ill and grieving children www.livestrong.com/article/200291-how-to-treat-children-who-are-grieving

This resource is a article on how to relate and be around a child who is going through grief. www.moyerfoundation.org

The Moyer Foundation

This resource includes information on Camp Erin, the largest nationwide network of free bereavement camps for children aged 6-17 who have lost someone close to them. There are 40 camp locations in over 25 states including one in Canada. The weekend-long experience is facilitated by grief professionals and trained counselors, and combines memoralizing activities with more traditional and fun camp activities. http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/griefwar.pdf

National Association of School Psychologists

Tips for Teachers and parents about helping children cope with loss, death, and grief www.ncschoolcounselor.org

North Carolina School Counselor Association www.nctsn.org

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

This resource includes numerous resources for adults seeking information on assisting children and adolescents experiencing grief, including a site called the Sibling Connection which offers books, movies, articles, and first-person accounts to losing a sibling. It is a comprehensive resources providing information on traumatic grief for children. www.newhope-grief.org/teengrief

Teen Grief – A safe place for teens to express and share when someone close has died www.rainbowhospic.org/bereavement/school

The Rainbow Hospice helps with bereavement within schools by providing support and information to educators in developing age appropriate activities and interventions. www.rd4u.org.uk

RD4U – British website designed for young people by young people. RD4U means the 'road for you' - the main aim of the site is to let you find your own 'road' to dealing with your loss. www.schoolcounselor.org American School Counselor Association www.starrtraining.org/ trauma -and- children

The National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children is a great resource for grief and trauma in children. The Institute offers classes, training, and certifications for professionals in the areas of grief and trauma. http://www.teachervision.fen.com/grief/death-and-dying/6890.html

Great resource that explains the death and grief reaction process for all levels www.thehealingplaceinfo.org

A non-profit facility that offers on-going education and grief support programs for grieving children and adolescents as well as their families. http://www.teachervision.fen.com/grief/death-and-dying/6890.html

Great resource that explains the death and grief reaction process for all levels www.winstonswish.org.uk

Winston’s Wish – Help for grieving children and their families