Supporting Grieving Children

• Canadian Alliance for Grieving Children and Youth
• Children's Grief Centre Brochure
• Child & Teen Grief after a Suicide
• How Children Grieve and Ways We Can Help
• Preparing Emotionally for Disasters or Emergencies
• Psychological First Aid After a Disaster
• Recovery after a Disaster or Emergency
• Responding to a Disaster or Emergency
• Sleep Disturbances
• Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
• When Bad Things Happen
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt
• Lost for Words - Advice for Children About How to Cope with Grief

Suggested Books for Grieving Children

• Ida, Always by Caron Levis
• In My Heart: A Book of Feelings by Jo Witek
• Life is Like the Wild by Shona Innes
• Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss by Pat Schwiebert, Chuck DeKlyen 
• The Invisible String by Patricia Karst  
• The Next Place by Warren Hanson
• Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You by Nancy Tillman

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Supporting Grieving Teens

• Canadian Alliance for Grieving Children and Youth
• Children's Grief Centre Brochure
• Child & Teen Grief after a Suicide
• How Teens Grieve and Ways We Can Help
• Preparing Emotionally for Disasters or Emergencies
• Psychological First Aid After a Disaster
• Recovery after a Disaster or Emergency
• Responding to a Disaster or Emergency
• Sleep Disturbances
• Talking To Teens about Life-Threatening Illness
• When Bad Things Happen
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books for Grieving Teens

• Someone I Loved Died by Suicide by Doreen T. Cammarata 
• The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and their Friends by Helen Fitzgerald
• The Invisible String by Patricia Karst
• The Next Place by Warren Hanson
• When a Friend Dies: A Book for Teens about Grieving and Healing by Marilyn Grootman
• Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You by Nancy Tillman

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• Canadian Alliance for Grieving Children and Youth
• Children's Grief Centre Brochure
• Child & Teen Grief after a Suicide
• Family Conversations about MAID
• Helping Your Child or Teen Recover from a Disaster or Emergency
• How Children Grieve and Ways We Can Help
• How Teens Grieve and Ways We Can Help
• Informing a Child of a Death
• MyGrief.ca  
• Preparing Emotionally for Disasters or Emergencies 
• Psychological First Aid After a Disaster
• Recovery after a Disaster or Emergency
• Responding to a Disaster or Emergency 
• Should My Child Attend the Funeral?
• Sleep Disturbances
• Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
• Talking to Teens about Life-Threatening Illness
• When Bad Things Happen
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt
• Video: Each member of a family grieves differently (French)

Special Event & Holidays

• Help for the Holidays
• The Year I Ran Away From Christmas 
• When Bad Things Happen
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books for Grieving Families

• Healing A Teen?s Heart: 100 Practical Ideas For Families, Friends and Caregivers by Alan Wolfelt
• Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope when Someone Special Dies by Janis Silverman
• Helping Children Grieve by Theresa Huntley
• I Miss You: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas
• Never Too Young To Know: Death in Children?s Lives by Phyllis Silverman
• Waterbugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Children by Doris Stickney
• When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief by Marge Eaton Heegaard

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• MyGrief.ca
• Preparing Emotionally for Disasters or Emergencies
• Psychological First Aid After a Disaster
• Recovery after a Disaster or Emergency
• Responding to a Disaster or Emergency
• Sleep Disturbances

Special Event & Holidays

• Help for the Holidays
• The Year I Ran Away From Christmas 
• When Bad Things Happen
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books for Grieving Adults

• Catching Your Breath in Grief by Thomas Attig
• Healing Your Grieving Soul by Alan Wolfelt 
• How We Grieve: Relearning the World by Thomas Attig
• Living a Life that Matters by Harold S. Kushner
• Option B: Finding Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg 
• The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love by Thomas Attig

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• Alberta Cancer Exercise Brochure
• Canadian Virtual Hospice
• Child Grief & Life-Threatening Illness in the Family
• Chinese Patients With Cancer at the End of Life
• Family Conversations about MAID
• Grief in the Workplace
• I Did it My Way: Aging Well To The End
• Living with Advanced Illness Brochure
• Living with Cancer Program
• Should My Child Attend the Funeral?
• Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
• Teen Grief & Life-Threatening Illness in the Family
• The Grieving Colleague: 10 Do's and Don't's
• Palliative Care Resources
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul GawaBrocnde
• The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
• The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation by Kathleen Dowling Singh
• Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Ram Dass, Bush Mirabai
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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