When Supporting Grieving Children

• Child & Teen Grief after a Suicide
• How Children Grieve and Ways We Can Help
• KidsGrief.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
• Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
• When Bad Things Happen
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books

• 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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When Supporting Grieving Teens

• Child & Teen Grief after a Suicide
• How Teens Grieve and Ways We Can Help
• KidsGrief.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
• Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
• When Bad Things Happen
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books

• 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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• Child & Teen Grief after a Suicide
• Child Grief & Life-Threatening Illness in the Family
• Helping Your Child or Teen Respond to a Disaster or Emergency
• 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 
• MyGrief.ca  
• KidsGrief.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
• When Bad Things Happen 
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

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

• 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

• 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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• A Guide for Caregivers
• Caregiver Connect
• Caregivers Guide: A Handbook about End of Life Care
• Caregivers Lighthouse
• Calgary Seniors Volunteer Respite for Caregivers
• Caregivers: Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
• Living Lessons: A Guide for Caregivers
• Sleep Disturbances
• St. John Ambulance and The Order of St. Lazarus
• Support for Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregivers
• Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
• When Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books 

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• 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
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• 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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• AHS Palliative Care Resource Listing
• Child Grief & Life-Threatening Illness in the Family
• Chinese Patients With Cancer at the End of Life
• Grief in the Workplace
• I Did it My Way: Aging Well To The End
• Living with Cancer Program
• Should My Child Attend the Funeral?
• Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
• The Grieving Colleague: 10 Do's and Don't's
• When Grief Grief Goes to School
• When the Holidays Hurt

Suggested Books

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• 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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Palliative Care at End of Life

• AHS Palliative Care Resource Listing
• Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association
• Living My Culture
• I Did it My Way: Aging Well To The End
• Memorial Society of Alberta

Financial Management

• Canada Pension Survivors Benefit
• Canadian Virtual Hospice: Patient Benefits
• Compassionate Benefits Program

Funeral Planning

• Alberta Funeral Service Association
• Calgary Herald Funeral Home Search
• Should My Child Attend the Funeral?

• Chinese Patients with Cancer at the End of Life
• Musings of a Hospice Chaplain
• My Health Alberta: Palliative and End of Life Care
• St. John Ambulance and The Order of St. Lazarus

Mindfulness Practice

• Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine Health Care and Society
• Hospice Meditations: About Change
• Hospice Meditations: Being in the Moment
• Hospice Meditations: Ready and Willing
• Hospice Meditations: Sanctuary
• Hospice Meditations: Setting Our Intentions
• Hospice Meditations: What Dreams May Come
• New York Zen Centre for Contemplative Care
• Room Blessing
• Shift Change Blessing
• University of Rochester Medical Centre Family Medicine Mindful Practice
• Upaya Zen Centre

Suggested Books

• A Place of Healing by Joni Eareckson Tada
• A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
• Being with Dying by Joan Halifax, Ira Byock
• Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care by David Barnard 
• Dying Well by Ira Byock
• Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine by Saki Santorelli 
• Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery by Linda E. Carlson,  Michael Speca
• Resilience in Palliative Care Achievement in Adversity by Barbara Monroe
• The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition by Arthur Kleinman
• The Nature of Suffering: And the Goals of Medicine by Eric J. Cassell
• Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen Levine,  Ondrea Levine
• My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen

• Canadian Virtual Hospice
• KidsGrief.ca
• MyGrief.ca

Suggested References

• Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Dennis Klass
• Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives by Phyllis Rolfe Silverman
• Predictors and Parameters of Resilience to Loss: Toward an Individual Differences Model by A. D. Mancini, G. A. Bonanno
• The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement by M. Stroebe, H. Schut
• The Grieving Person’s Bill of Rights by Alan Wolfelt

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