# data[].attributes.headline
Grief Resources and Activities for Children 0-12

# data[].attributes.subject
Grief Resources and Activities for Children 0-12

# data[].attributes.body
From The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Grief Support for Children | Dougy Center

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Kids, this is just for you. Find activities and information to help you understand and express your grief, or find other kids near you to talk with.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
As mental health professionals who have experienced significant losses ourselves, we know individual grief is unique and there is no "right" way to cope. Our goal is to create a community that provides hope, creative expression, support, and education to anyone wishing to understand the complicated experience of life after loss.

What's Your Grief wrote a book! Although grief is immensely complex, our philosophy has always been that the best way to cope is one step at a time. This is a book to help you do just that.

We post a new article to What's Your Grief about once a week. Subscribe to stay up to date on all our posts.

What's Your Grief does not receive funding or grants to help our operational costs. If you've ever benefited from this community and would like to help us continue our work, please consider donating. We're a program of Fusion Partnerships, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. You can make a one-time or monthly donation in support of What's Your Grief. You also may give in memory of a loved one.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
What's Your Grief is a grief website and online community for grieving people and grief support professionals. We honor all types of loss and grief.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Preschool to age 8 Journals and workbooks Funerals, cemeteries and Shiva Family illness and disability
These resources can be used when explaining death to young children or to help them grieve. Most of the links from the book titles below will lead you to Amazon.com, where you can learn more about the book, read reviews about it, and order it if you'd like. Most of these books can be purchased through other book sellers, as well, or found at your local library.

Preschool to age 8
Friend loss Parent loss Sibling loss Grandparent loss
General grief, explaining death

Return to top.

Loss of a friend

Return to top.

Loss of a grandparent

Return to top.

Loss of a parent

Return to top.

Loss of a pet

Return to top.

Loss of a sibling

More grief resources for preschool to age 8

Return to top.

Ages 8 to 12
Friend loss Parent loss Sibling loss Grandparent loss
Most of the links from the book titles below will lead you to Amazon.com, where you can learn more about the book, read reviews about it, and order it if you'd like. Most of these books can be purchased through other book sellers, as well, or found at your local library.

General

Return to top.

Friend

Return to top.

Grandparent

Return to top.

Parent

Return to top.

Pet

Return to top.

Sibling

Return to top.

About funerals, cemeteries and Shiva

Tell Me, Papa (Ages 6-10)
by Joy and Marv Johnson
Publisher: Centering Corporation, 1978, 1-402-553-1200
A grandfather speaks to children of funerals - explaining preparation of the body, role of funeral director, vocabulary of death-related things. It is also a compassionate story.

About family illness and disability

Promises
Elizabeth Winthrop
(Sarah learns about treatment, hospitals, hair loss and that mom keeps promises for celebrations)

Journal and workbooks

Bare Books
(Several sizes of blank books with covers to color or covers to design. Also lineguides, plastic book covers, plastic crayons, etc.)
Publisher: Treetop Publishing, PO Box 085567, Racine WI 53408
Phone: 1-414-884-0501

Drawing Out Feelings Series
(Death, Serious Illness, Trauma, Divorce, Alcoholism and Parent Remarries)
by Marge Heegaard
Publisher: Woodland Press, 99 Woodland Circle, Minneapolis MN 55424
Phone: 1-612-926-2665

My Memory Book
by Gretchen Gaines-Lane
(20 exercises plus 20 pages for creativity)
Publisher: Chi Rho Press, 1-301-670-1859

So Much to Think About
by Fred Rogers
(Activity book for children - safe, warm, comforting
Compassion Books, 1-704-675-9670

When a Grandparent Dies
By Nechama Liss-Levinson, PhD.
("A Kid's Own Remembering Workbook for Shiva and the Year Beyond")
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1-802-457-4000

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Preschool to age 8 Journals and workbooks Funerals, cemeteries and Shiva Family illness and disability These resources can be used when explaining death to young children or to help them grieve. Most of the links from the book titles below will lead you to Amazon.com, where you can learn more about the book, read reviews about it, and order it if you'd like.

# data[].attributes.headline
Books for Children Coping with Loss or Trauma

# data[].attributes.subject
Books for Children Coping with Loss or Trauma

# data[].attributes.body
From the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)

# data[].attributes.body
From the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)

# data[].attributes.headline
The National Alliance for Grieving Children

# data[].attributes.subject
The National Alliance for Grieving Children

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The NACG is the only professional member organization specifically addressing issues about childhood bereavement.

Our network is comprised of professionals, institutions, and volunteers who promote best practices, educational programming, and critical resources to facilitate the mental, emotional and physical health of children who are grieving and those who support them.

Join the Alliance today!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
National Alliance for Children's Grief | Home Page

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Our network is comprised of professionals, institutions, and volunteers who promote best practices, educational programming, and critical resources to facilitate the mental, emotional and physical health of children who are grieving and those who support them. Join the Alliance today!

# data[].attributes.headline
Contra Costa Crisis Center - Grief Counseling Resources

# data[].attributes.subject
Contra Costa Crisis Center - Grief Counseling Resources

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Grief Counseling Resources - Contra Costa Crisis Center

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Bereavement support groups currently meet at the Crisis Center in Walnut Creek for survivors after suicide loss, parents who have lost children, spouses and partners loss, and family and friends loss. Group support is facilitated by trained volunteers. No one should have to face loss alone.

# data[].attributes.body
A program of East Bay Agency for Children that "supports children and their families coping with a life threatening illness or the death of a loved one."

# data[].attributes.body
A program of Hospice of the East Bay

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
[Note: Grief Support services are provided free of charge to all community members in need, not just those in our hospice program.]
Children and teens grieve differently than adults. The way young people express their grief can be confusing to those around them, increasing their feelings of isolation and despair. For this reason, their unique needs often go unnoticed or are misunderstood by adults in their lives who are often grieving as well.

Hospice East Bay's Bridge program supports children and teens through art, play, talk and peer support. Families may attend for as long as needed. There is a parent/guardian support group offered at the same time as the child/teen support group. The Bridge meets twice a month throughout the school year. Pre-registration is required.

For more information, please contact the Bereavement Services Department at Hospice of the East Bay at (925) 887-5678.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Hospice of the East Bay's Bridge Program for Children & Teens

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Note: Grief Support services are provided free of charge to all community members in need, not just those in our hospice program.] Children and teens grieve differently than adults. The way young people express their grief can be confusing to those around them, increasing their feelings of isolation and despair.

# data[].attributes.body
From The National Alliance for Grieving Children

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Experience Camps Malibu, CA www.experience.campExperience Camps are one-week camps for boys and girls who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling or primary caregiver. It's a place where kids can laugh, cry, play, create, remember the person who died, or forget the grief that weighs them down.

# data[].attributes.body
From Sesame Street