The good news is there are some really thoughtful and helpful resources available. Here are a few I value.
What's Your Grief?
The Dougy Center
National Alliance For Grieving Children
Good Grief, Inc.
The Shared Grief Project
Looking for something specific?
What to do when death impacts your school:
Dougy Center: Death Impacts Your School
Loss and the School and Community
Ways educators help children cope with death:
New York Life Foundation, Communication: the Heart of the Work
How to talk with children about death:
Fred Rogers: Dealing with Death
Understanding how children grieve:
How to support adults and other family members who are grieving:
I Want to Help Someone Who's Grieving...
Suicide and special circumstances:
Dougy Center, Understanding Suicide, a streaming resource
Grief and Reaching Out to a Crisis Hotline, Fred Rogers Center
Where to find childhood bereavement support networks near you:
National Alliance for Grieving Children Resource Map
If you feel talking with a therapist would help, here is how you find one in your area:
Grief support networking sites to share with teens:
Instructional materials supporting social and emotional growth:
What’s Your Grief? Exploring Mixed-Up Emotions with Art
National bereavement support camps for children:
Have a resource to share? I would love to read it. Please be in touch.