Resource Center

As a teacher, school counselor, support staff, or administrator, it’s likely you’ll work with a student grieving the death of a family member or friend. Supporting anyone in grief can be intimidating, and especially so when it’s a child or teen. Drawn from the insights of grieving students, the Dougy Center has compiled these tips for supporting students after a death.  This toolkit offers school personnel a toolkit on poems, activities, videos, articles, podcasts and tipsheets related to death, dying and grief. Topics are sorted out by type of death and the person who died. Spanish toolkits are also available.

About the organization: At Dougy Center, our mission is to provide grief support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families can share their experiences before and after a death. We provide support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children who are grieving.