Grief support information is readily available online, and we can help you find it.

Michael's Place values the information contained at the web sites listed below as helpful resources for our own staff and the families we help. We encourage you to explore these sites with special emphasis on the sections we've noted.

Michael's Place - www.mymichaelsplace.net

Children’s Grief Education Association - www.childgrief.org

Teens’ page

For parents:

• Anticipatory grief
• Children attending funerals
• Grieving children: what to say
• Informing a child of a death
• Children’s grief responses
• How to help chart
• Suicide

For teachers:

• Classroom concerns for grieving children
• Bibliography

For counselors:

• Grief counseling for children

Ele’s Place - www.elesplace.org
A Child’s Grief
For Parents: When a child needs help
Tips for teachers and other school personnel
Teen page
Explaining suicide to children
Explaining illness to children

 
The Dougy Center - www.dougy.org
Help for kids
Help for teens
Bookstore:

• 35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child
• Helping Children Cope with Death
• Helping Teens Cope with Death
• Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers
• After A Suicide: A Workbook for Kids

Recover from Grief - www.recover-from-grief.com/index.html  
Grief information
Hierarchy of grief needs
Resources for parents
Resources for children
“Comfort” ideas
On-line memory pages
Healing artwork
 
Beyond Indigo - www.beyondindigo.com/children/
Grief at different ages
Supporting grieving children
Resources for kids
Talking to children about grief
Teens and grief
Ways to help children
Grief and the adolescent
Middle schoolers coping with death
My student just lost a parent

 
Survivors of Suicide - www.survivorsofsuicide.com
Suicide – frequently asked questions
Understanding suicide
Beyond surviving
How to help a survivor heal

Compassionate Friends - www.compassionatefriends.org/Resources/Available_Brochures.aspx
Understanding grief when your child dies
Death of an infant
Suicide of a child
Caring for surviving children
When a brother or sister dies
Suggestions for teachers and school counselors
How can I help?
When an employee/coworker is grieving

Sesame Street - www.sesameworkshop.org/grief
When families grieve
Military families
Non-military families
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