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This tab contains resources for supporting children through grief. It includes helpful websites, activites, coping strategies, and a check list.
Helping Children Cope with Grief
This resource contains tips for supporting grievin children. It is broken down into ages and experiences. The website contains information about what to say, who should say it, what to look out for and how to help.
The Dougy Center
This is a wonderful resource. It provides videos from grieving children, activity ideas, and much more!
Some of the activities include writing a letter to a deceased loved one, recording ways to remember the individual, writing poem using the loved one's name, making a supporting chain, and more!
It also includes videos from other grieving students. This is helpful because it shows the child they are not alone.
Tips sheets (English) for supporting grieving children
Dougy.org is an excellent grief resource. These links provide a variety of tip sheets relating to children and grief.
Tips sheets (Spanish) for supporting grieving children
Rainbows for All Children
Rainbows for All Children is dedicated to being the premier source of support for all youth as they navigate grief and heal from loss.
This website shares resources for deployment, death, significant illness, deportation, incarnation, seperation and divorce, trauma and grief, and others.
activities_grieving_children.pdfActivities for Grieving Children
This brief 7 page pdf contains 12 activites from a working through a grief maze to creating a memory box. It also includes modifications for different age groups.
Grades K-5: Grief Drawing Activity
This encourages discussion and expression. It breaks the activity into 2 categories. One section focuses on grades K–2 while the second portion is designed for grades 3-5. One of the activities involve drawing a holiday without your loved one. Another activity encourages children to draw the emotions they are experiencing.
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Death :Checklist for Children
This pdf provides some valuable ideas for grieving children. The goal of the checklist is to encourage the child to participate in some activities that may make them feel better.
The most important bullet point encourages the child to talk about their grief and loved one if they want to. This document could be used to normalize grief and help the child see that loss is a part of life.
The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC)
"The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC) is a nonprofit organization that raises awareness about the needs of children and teens who are grieving a death and provides education and resources for anyone who supports them."
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