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Resources

Many of these resources originate from nationally recognized experts and leaders in trauma, grief, loss, and child and adolescent psychology. Some are created by educators, researchers, and industry professionals, while others may be the firsthand accounts of individuals who have experienced loss or supported someone who has.

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Supporting Individuals on the Autism Spectrum Coping with Grief and Loss through Death or Divorce

Description: Loss and grief, death, and divorce are difficult subjects to discuss. It is important to understand the grief process your family member, student, friend, or client with an autism spectrum disorder is experiencing and be prepared to provide the appropriate support.

Source: Indiana University Bloomington

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Supporting Students Exposed to Trauma & Grief: Tips for Teachers

Description: This presentation addresses how educators can support students who have experienced trauma or the death of a loved one by providing guidance on what to say to the student, their classmates, and how to recognize signs that the student may need additional support, offering concrete strategies to create a safe and nurturing classroom environment.

Source: Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

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Take Note: Dr. Tashel Bordere on Suffocated Grief

Description: WPSU's Lindsey Whissel Fenton interviews Dr. Tashel Bordere. | Dr. Tashel Bordere's research focuses on grief and loss among African American youth and has identified the term suffocated grief to describe when normal grief reactions among marginalized populations are not only dismissed, but punished.

Source: WPSU

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Talking with Kids About Feelings

Description: Social-emotional learning can be part of your everyday activities!

Source: Sesame Workshop

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Teaching Active Listening Skills to High School Students

Description: An easy-to-implement, no-prep activity that educators can use to teach high school students how to show they are actively listening during conversations.

Source: Everyday Speech

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Teaching Kids About Boundaries

Description: This article emphasizes the importance of teaching children empathy, self-awareness, and boundary-setting skills.

Source: Child Mind Institute

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Teen Do and Don't Poster

Description: Guidance for adults working with grieving teens who might be nervous and not know what to expect or have had a bad experience with grief support.

Source: NACG

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The Challenge We Face

Description: A video segment that explores secondary losses for children in the foster care system.

Source: Camilla Network

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The Feelings Garden

Description: A video to help children explore — and learn to take care of — different feelings.

Source: Sesame Workshop

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The Multiverse of Grief - 2024 National Conference and Webcast Slideshow

Description: A PDF version of the slideshow that accompanies the presentation by the same name.

Source: NACG

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The Multiverse of Grief - "My Graphic Novel" template

Description: During the 2024 National Conference and Webcast, presenters used the "My Graphic Novel" in an experiential presentation, demonstrating how to use "My Graphic Novel" in grief and loss support.

Source: NACG

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The Multiverse of Grief - 2024 National Conference and Webcast

Description: A multicultural and expressive arts approach to being in relationship with diverse grief narratives. Hosted by Adam D-F. Stevens, MA, RDT. Presented March 19, 2024.

Source: NACG

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Understanding & Supporting Grieving Youth: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach

Description: This workshop addresses the need for tailored grief support strategies for children, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the importance of understanding individual needs and utilizing evidence-based practices to address challenges in grief processing.

Source: Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

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We Can Prevent ACEs

Description: Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. As such, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are an important public health issue. Learn how everyone can help prevent ACEs by using strategies to create safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for all children.

Source: CDC

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What is Death (Social Story)

Description: A resource from HEARTplay for explaining death to young children. www.heartplayprogram.org

Source: HEARTplay

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What to Say

Description: Helpful words and brief videos about words that are welcome and support grievers.

Source: WPSU, Speaking Grief

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Whole Body Listening

Description: In this video, Elmo and his classmates are having trouble concentrating because they have the wiggles! 

Source: Sesame Workshop

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WPSU Learning Grief

Description: A collection of brief videos from Learning Grief, featuring host Adam D-F Stevens. English and Spanish.

Source: PBS Learning Media

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Youth Communication

Description: Youth Communication offers youth writing programs and publications that give teens the opportunity to share their voice for other students. Young people today are experiencing losses of all types—mourning the death of a loved one, grieving the death of Black men and women at the hands of police, experiencing homelessness and migration. Many YC writers have written about loss and letting go—whether it’s dealing with the death of a friend or loved one, letting go of a relationship or an identity you’ve outgrown, or losing a home or a way of being. YC writers have also focused on resilience—on the strengths they developed or relied upon to get through difficult times, the people who helped them or the places and things that brought them joy.