Additional Resource Links on Grieving

* Grieving programs are not eligible for School Challenge grants.

The links below are provided for your information only. The views of the linked organizations do not necessarily reflect the views of Highmark Healhty High 5, the Highmark Foundation, or the Highmark Caring Place.

Pennsylvania

• Highmark Caring Place — Centers in Pittsburgh, Erie and Central Pennsylvania provide assistance through family sessions, group talks, peer support groups and community outreach.

• Gilda’s Club of Western PA — For families and patients to learn how to live with cancer.
• The Healing Patch of Home Nursing Agency — a center of loss and hope for grieving children ages pre-school through 18 who have suffered the loss of a loved one.
• Tides — a support program for grieving children and the people who love them.
• Camp Courage — program which offers children and teens, ages 8-16, who have experienced the death of someone they love, the chance to come together for a weekend camp to learn new ways of dealing with their grief.
• Ryan’s Tree — bereavement workshop for children in kindergarten through twelfth grades who have experienced the death of a friend or family member.
• Our Caring Corner — a grief support program for children & adolescents and their families.

National

• Compassionate Friends — Assists families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age through providing support and information.
• The MISS Foundation — Volunteer-based organization committed to providing crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause.
• Children's Hospice International — Offers grief support for children; main purpose is hospice care.
• Griefnet.org — Internet community for children dealing with grief, death and major loss. Includes peer-to-peer support group, Q&A, stories, memorials, art.
• Association for Death Education and Counseling — Association for professionals in the field of death education and grief counseling that publishes newsletters and other publications and provides certification for professionals.
• The Dougy Center; National Center for Grieving Children and Families — National directory of grief support centers and training program.
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry — Professional membership organization of psychiatrists. Provides resources for parents and teens.
• UCLA School Mental Health Project — Resource center that provides schools and teachers with resources for helping children.

 

Did You Know?

• Seventy-three percent of adults believe that their lives would have been "much better" had their loved ones not died when they were young, according to a survey released by Comfort Zone Camp, a nonprofit provider of childhood bereavement camps, and Matthew Greenwald and Associates Inc. Of the 1,006 adults surveyed, 110 had lost a parent before the age of 20, 52 lost a sibling, and 13 lost both. Learn more in a CNN article.