A Toolkit From The Dougy Center For Individuals Facing Loss After A Violent Death
Explaining murder or violent death to children and teens can feel overwhelming. Here are some tips to help you talk with and support grieving children and teens after a violent death.
The Dougy Center offers poems, activities, videos, articles, podcasts and tipsheets related to death, dying and grief for individuals facing loss after a violent death. Topics are specifically sorted by resources related to violent death. Spanish toolkits are also available.
A Toolkit From The Dougy Center For Individuals Facing Loss After Suicide
Explaining a death from suicide to a child or teen can feel overwhelming and intimidating. As adults, we often want to protect them from the stigma and shame that can accompany such a death. Here are some tips for talking with children and teens about a death from suicide and ways to support them as they grieve.
A Toolkit From The Dougy Center For Individuals on COVID-19 Related Grief
Since the pandemic started in 2020, hundreds of thousands of grandparents, parents, siblings, aunties, uncles, friends, and extended family members have died of COVID-19. Each person leaves behind family and friends, including children and teens, who are grieving. If you’re supporting a child or teen in this situation, you’re likely wondering, “How do I help?” We hope these tips will help guide you.
A Toolkit For Caring Community Professionals On Grief From The Dougy Center
Find grief-informed resources made for religious, community, and business leaders. The Dougy Center offers leaders and other helping professionals a toolkit on poems, activities, videos, articles, podcasts and tipsheets related to death, dying and grief. Topics are sorted out by the type of death and the person who died. Spanish toolkits are also available.
A Toolkit For Counselors and Helping Professionals On Grief From The Dougy Center
If you know a child who has experienced the death of someone, here are a few basic principles to keep in mind. Speak openly and honestly about death; Listen; Be open to different ways of grieving; Offer choices; Talk about and remember the person who died; Provide consistency and routine; Know that grief doesn't have a schedule; Get extra help if needed; Find sources of support for yourself. (From The Dougy Center's resource on "Ten Tips For Supporting Children Who Are Grieving.")
A Toolkit For Young Grieving Children From The Dougy Center
While everyone grieves differently, there are some behaviors and emotions commonly expressed by children depending on their developmental level. A child’s developmental level is influenced by more than just their actual age. Trauma, including grief, and a variety of life challenges can inform where a child is along the spectrum of development. These stages are not rigid and a child might show a mix of responses from more than one developmental stage. Children, no matter what age, find consistency, routine, and flexibility to be helpful.
A Toolkit For School Personnel On Grief From The Dougy 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.
A Toolkit For Family And Friends On Grief From The Dougy Center
From the Dougy Center's "Grief Out Loud" podcast episode, "No Apology Needed": "Most of us don’t know what to say or do, so we go turn to what we’ve heard others say in a similar situation, “I’m sorry for your loss.” While there’s nothing wrong with those words, especially when said with authenticity and full presence, it’s helpful to know how that phrase affects those who are grieving and what you can say instead."
A Toolkit On Advanced Serious Illness From The Dougy Center
Pathways helps families when a family member is living with an advanced serious illness. The Dougy Center offers this population a toolkit on poems, activities, videos, articles, podcasts and tipsheets related to death, dying and grief. Topics are sorted out by the type of death and the person who died. Topics include issues on hospice and palliative care, family connections, legacy building, cancer, Alzheimer's, and other serious illnesses. Spanish toolkits are also available.
A Toolkit For Families and Caregivers On Grief From The Dougy Center
Helping a child or teen who is grieving can be overwhelming for a parent or adult caregiver. This resource is for parents and caregivers who are looking for ways in which to support children in their lives who are struggling with grief. The toolkit includes poems, activities, videos, articles, podcasts and tipsheets related to death, dying and grief. Topics are sorted by the type of death and the person who died. Spanish toolkits are also available.