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Helping Children Cope with Death This guidebook offers a comprehensive, easy-to-read overview of how children grieve and strategies to support them. Based on The Dougy Center’s work with thousands of grieving children and their families, you will...

Healing a Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers A child you care about is grieving. But how can you help? This book offers 100 practical, kid-friendly ideas for helping children mourn well so they can grow to...

Our Care Packages are designed to provide easy-to-read, supportive and caring resources for the newly bereaved. You can customize care packages with other resources on our website. We will add any other resource(s) you select to the care package. Our...

Includes these books and handout: Holiday Blues Not Just Another Day When the Holidays Hurt Getting Past Christmas Also includes a gift bag.

Doggone Grief Game This board game is designed to help kids share their feelings about a special person who died. Communication is the first step toward healing.  Feedback from both children and adults has been very positive. How to Play To play...

Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief Foreword INDIES Award-Winner — Gold Medal for Self-HelpWhen a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable—especially in the case of a traumatizing death that...

Companioning at a Time of Perinatal Loss: A Guide for Nurses, Physicians, Social Workers, Chaplains and Other Bedside Caregivers Written by seasoned support nurses, outlines a framework for bereavement care in the obstetrical arena. Describes loss from...

This bag is filled with our Centering published resources for Bereaved Parents. 20 titles!!! Over $125 total value!! Includes: I Remember, I Remember; Holiday Blues; Children Die, Too; Writing to Recover Journal; Dear Parents; Suicide of a Child; Goodbye...

A Handbook for Widowers A helpful book for widowers. Talks to men openly and honestly about tears, guilt, feelings of anger, depression, isolation and lonliness. Also talks about your health, your job and other money matters, living alone and what to do...

This care package is for anyone who has a loved one die. It includes a book tote and books that are easy-to-read for the newly bereaved. Care packages can be customized with other resources. It includes the books: Grief: What it is and what you can do I...

Our Care Packages are designed to provide easy-to-read, supportive and caring resources for the newly bereaved.You can customize care packages with other resources on our website. We will add any other resource(s) you select to the care package. Our Teen...

After A Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal Helping Children Heal The premature death of a parent can be devastating for young children—with the consequences far more profound when the parent dies by suicide. Amidst the resulting grief,...