Resource Center

Pathways Center for Grief & Loss provides resources of vidoes, reading lists and handouts on a wide variety of grief & loss topics.  

Online Video Library

• What is Grief?
• Hope for Coping
• Care for Your Whole Self
• Being In and Moving through Mourning

Coronavirus Pandemic

• Coping with a Coronavirus Death
• Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others During a Pandemic
• Grieving Alone & Together: Responding to the Loss of Your Loved One During COVID-19
• Support After a Coronavirus Death: Suggestions for Parents and Family Members
• Strategies to Help Grieving Children & Teens Cope with Anxiety During the Pandemic
• Helping Children Cope with a Coronavirus Death
• Helping Children Cope During the Pandemic Crisis

Suggested Reading List

• Adults Coping with Serious Illness
• Bereaved Children
• Children Coping with a Loved One’s Serious Illness
• Children Coping with a Serious Illness
• Compassion Fatigue and Wellness
• Death of a Child
• Professionals
• Pet Loss Resources
• Supporting Bereaved Adults
• Supporting Bereaved Children and Teens
• Teens on Illness and Loss

Caregiving & Supporting Others

• Anticipatory Grief and Mourning
• Caregiver Resources
• Caregivers’ Self Care
• How to Help a Grieving Friend
• Supporting the Bereaved
• When a Coworker is Grieving

Grief and Loss

• Bill of Rights for the Bereaved
• Common Grief Responses: Suggestions for Healing
• Complicated Mourning: What is it? How do I Cope?
• Coping with Anxiety While Grieving
• Coping with Special Days
• Extreme Self Care on Your Grief Journey
• Grief and Loss as a Young Adult
• Ritual as an Aid to Coping with Loss
• Understanding Grief – Common Reactions
• Ways to Cope During the Holidays
• Ways to Remember During the Holidays

Children and Teens

• After an Overdose Death Suggestions for Talking with Children and Teens
• Guidelines for Families: Helping Adolescents Cope During a Loved One’s Serious Illness
• Guidelines for Families: Helping Adolescents Cope Following a Loved One’s Death
• Helping Children Cope When a Loved One has a Chronic Illness
• Helping Children Cope with Sudden Death
• Helping Children Cope with Sudden Illness
• Helping Children Understand Suicide
• Helping Children and Teens Cope During a Loved One’s Terminal Illness and After the Death
• Questions Commonly Asked to Help Children Cope
• Strategies to Help Children and Teens Cope with Anxiety After Loss
• Supporting Adolescents Coping with Death
• Supporting Children and Teens Coping with the Death of a Loved One by Suicide
• Supporting Children Coping with Illness and Loss
• Understanding the Developmental Stages of Grieving Children
• Youth & Funerals: Understanding the Important Role Funerals and Memorialization Play in the Lives of Youth
• When There is a Funeral: Helping Children Cope

Specific Types Of Loss

• Bereaved Individuals with Autism
• Bereaved Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities or Developmental Delays
• Common Grief Responses in Persons with Serious Illness
• Common LGBT Grief Issues Following the Death of a Partner or Spouse
• Coping with Sudden Death
• Coping with Suicide Loss
• Couples Coping with the Loss of a Child
• Dr. Mitchell Crawford, Overdose Awareness Day 2020
• Grief and Loss as a Young Adult
• Grieving the Death of an Adult Child
• Grieving the Death of a Child
• Grieving the Death of a Spouse or Companion
• Grieving When Cognitively Impaired
• Interview with Dr. Bonnie Milas, Cardiac Anesthesiologist, University of Pennsylvania (Sorry for Your Loss, Overdose Awareness)
• Losing a Loved One to Drug Overdose
• Losing a Loved One to Homicide
• Losses in Later Life
• Pet Loss Resources
• Suicide Resource Options
• Surviving the Loss of a Parent

About the organization: Pathways Center for Grief & Loss is a part of Hospice & Community Care which aims to provide personalized, compassionate care and support for patients and families coping with serious illness throughout life. It aims to lead in providing superior specialized care that evolves to meet unique needs of a diverse community. Their guiding principles include: commintment to excellence, compassion and comfort, service and impact, diversity and inclusion, integrity and teamwork. 

Keywords: COVID-19, End-of-life care, childhood grief, community support, advocacy resources, neurodivergence, serious illness communication, palliative care, violent death, advance care directives, hospice care, grief support, dying, suicide, pet loss