PACEs Connection Resource Center

Death and Grieving Resources for Children and Their Supporters

If your child is currently experiencing grief, you might find the resources below helpful. You can find general Grief Resources under Becoming Healing-Centered: Individuals. 

Articles

• Centering Loss and Grief for Schools

• Holiday Toolkit: Guidance on supporting grieving children through the holidays

• NPR: Nearly 8 Million Kids Lost a Parent or Primary Caregiver to the Pandemic

• Youth Information Sheet on Childhood Traumatic Grief: Offers information for youth to help them understand the differences between grief and traumatic grief, the signs and symptoms of traumatic grief in children and youth, and what to do to feel better.

Books

• Books for children about trauma, grief, and fear

• Death and grief picture books from Scholastic

• Death and grief picture books from Doing Good Together

• Death and grief chapter books from Doing Good Together

• Death and grief picture books from Growing Book by Book

• Death of a sibling picture books from Growing Book by Book

• Death and grief picture books from Goodreads

Videos

• Just Breathe: In this powerful short film, children explain how to calm your brain. Watch and hear from elementary school students learning to use mindfulness to navigate complex feelings. (3 min)

• Videos for children from the ACEs Science Toolkit

  • I Am Peace, A Book of Mindfulness by Susan Verde (3 min)

  • Loving Kindness Meditation - Mindfulness for Children (6 min)

  • Meditation For Children (6 min)

  • Meditation Instructions for Kids (2 min) 

  • Toddler Yoga: Night Time Routine (4 min)

Websites

• CAHMI: The Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative

• Child Mind Institute

• The Hackett Center - Guidelines for Parents/Caregivers: Helping Bereaved Youth after the Death of a Loved One

• National Alliance for Children's Grief: Dedicated to supporting grieving children and those who support the children, who may be grieving themselves. This website is a collective of awareness campaigns, educational opportunities for individuals and professionals, and includes a variety of tool-kits to help through a variety of situations. 

• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Traumatic Stress

• Sesame Street in Communities: Helping Kids Grieve

PACEs Connection would like to acknowledge Intern Hilary Marine's work in compiling these resources.