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Get help explaining death to children. Explore our free, bilingual resources for families, providers, and teachers on coping with grief and loss of loved ones.

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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.

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National Alliance for Children's Grief | Home Page

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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!

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KidsGrief.ca is a free online resource that helps parents support their children when someone in their life is dying or has died. It equips parents with the words and confidence needed to help children grieve life's losses in healthy ways.

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Tear Soup, a book about healing after loss

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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.

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Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us

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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.

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How Grief Affects Your Brain And What To Do About It | Better | NBC News

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The Dougy Center for Grieving Children & Families | Portland, OR

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At the Dougy Center, you'll find grief support, resources, and connection before and after a death. We provide the right place when nothing feels right.

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We welcome you to the practice of lighting a candle; connecting you to inner stillness and to a global community. Feel this connectedness. Slow your pace and offer these moments your full attention. You will be guided step-by-step.

22,950,499 candles have been lit from 255 countries, including 1,233 candles in the last two days.

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Light a Candle - Grateful Living Practice - Grateful.org

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Throughout the world, lighting candles is a sacred ritual. We light a candle for many purposes: to illuminate darkness, dedicate prayers, solidify intentions, offer blessings, evoke Spirit, and/or to nourish Grateful Living.

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The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

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Offers activity ideas to parents and caregivers whose families are sheltering in place, social distancing, and homeschooling due to school closures amidst the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Simple Activities for Children and Adolescents

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Offers activity ideas to parents and caregivers whose families are sheltering in place, social distancing, and homeschooling due to school closures amidst the COVID-19 outbreak.

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All 4 Youth is a partnership program between The Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health and Fresno County Superintendent of Schools for children and youth ages 0-22 years old experiencing difficulties that affect them at school and at home.

All 4 Youth is designed to enable youth and their families to access behavioral health services at school, in the community or in the home. The goal of All 4 Youth is to remove barriers and increase access to a positive healthy environment in which to live and learn.

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All 4 Youth is a partnership program between The Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health and Fresno County Superintendent of Schools for children and youth ages 0-22 years old experiencing difficulties that affect them at school and at home.

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We can all help prevent suicide. The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.

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The 988 Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. We're committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.

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Anyone could be struggling with suicide. Find more specific resources below.

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First, you'll hear an automated message featuring additional options while your call is routed to your local 988 Lifeline network crisis center.

We'll play you a little music while we connect you to a skilled, trained crisis worker.

A trained crisis worker at your local center will answer the phone.

This person will listen to you, understand how your problem is affecting you, provide support, and get you the help you need.

988 Lifeline Center calls are free and confidential, and we're available 24/7.

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Grief Support Program Finder | Dougy Center

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When soulmates are separated by death, the surviving partners often describe their grief as much more devastating than any other loss they have encountered in their lives. Their grief is oversized and overwhelming. The intensely close relationship gives rise to intensely deep grief. The stronger the attachment in life, the stronger the grief after the death.

Healing soulmate grief takes what I have coined "heroic mourning." What does this mean? It means that you must mourn as you well and as deeply as you loved. It takes medieval-style bravery. It also requires larger-than-life levels of faith, sacrifice, loyalty, commitment, adventure, and honor.

Read the book: "When Your Soulmate Dies"

The more we feel connected to someone famous, the more likely we are to experience grief when they die.

Our feelings of connection to celebrities are not based on personal relationships but instead on our own identities. It's common for us to admire and grow attached to famous people whose work, personalities, and lifestyles we aspire to ourselves. We like them-or at least their public personas. And often we dream of becoming more like them.

Generally, our culture isn't very good at mourning. We tend to believe that people should keep their grief to themselves (a harmful and wrongheaded misconception). But after a celebrity dies, we expect and encourage public mourning. This is a good thing. It helps us heal both as a society and as individuals.

If you're grieving the death of a celebrity, I encourage you to join in the public mourning rituals. Discuss the death with other fans. Share thoughts, feelings, and tributes in social media. If possible, visit the place of death and add your contribution to the memorial display of flowers, notes, photos, and mementos.

Of course, mourning more privately will also help you heal. You might want to write a letter to the celebrity's family, for example, telling them how much she meant to you. Or perhaps you would like to honor your shared history by creating a keepsake box or shadow box to store your personal mementos related to the person who died.

Accompanying Article: "Grieving the Death of a Celebrity"

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I'm Grieving a Loss - Center for Loss & Life Transition

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Your unique grief will depend, in part, on your relationship with the person who died. The stronger your attachment to the person who died, the more difficult your grief journey will likely be. It only makes sense that the closer you felt to the person who died, the more torn apart you will feel after [...]

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Since its inception, Hinds Hospice has understood the value of providing ongoing support to families after a loved one's death.

Initially, this grief support was provided primarily to the family members of our Hinds Hospice patients by our bereavement staff. Our bereavement program expanded in response to ongoing requests for specialized support from our communities in Fresno, Madera, and Merced Counties.

Our counseling services include:

Counseling for individuals diagnosed with a life-limiting illness

Counseling for those whose loved one is facing a life-limiting illness

Counseling for individuals and families impacted by the death of a loved one

Counseling for individuals and couples facing infant or pregnancy loss and/or infertility, as well as those needing support who are in pregnancy after a loss

Our counseling services are not limited to patients and families that are being served by Hinds Hospice. Our grief counseling services are open to anyone in the community needing grief support.

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Center for Grief & Healing - Hinds Hospice

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Since its inception, Hinds Hospice has understood the value of providing ongoing support to families after a loved one's death. Initially, this grief support was provided primarily to the family members of our Hinds Hospice patients by our bereavement staff. Our bereavement program expanded in response to ongoing requests for specialized...

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Grief Resources & Support for Families | Good Grief

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At Good Grief, we focus on providing families, professionals, and communities with a multitude of grief resources, including educational videos, quick tips, and more. Click to view our resources.

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Need Help Dealing with Grief? - GriefShare

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GriefShare is a grief recovery support group where you can find help and healing for the hurt of losing a loved one.