This workshop equips educators, mental health professionals, and youth-serving staff with the tools to recognize, validate, and respond to the complex grief experiences of Black and marginalized children. Drawing from The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care, participants will learn to integrate grief literacy and racial […]

This webinar will introduce a new tool designed by the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement for educators and other caring professionals that outlines practical strategies to talk with and support children after a death or other school/community crisis.  This tool – the 5Es (Engage, Empathize, Explore, Educate and Empower) – can be used […]

A growing number of children and adolescents are experiencing the loss of loved ones to gun violence and opioid overdoses, representing two of the most traumatic and stigmatized forms of bereavement in contemporary society. These losses present unique challenges that extend far beyond typical grief responses, as young people must simultaneously process traumatic circumstances of […]