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Grief Speak
A program where teens experiencing grief and loss can find their voice.
A lot of teens have experienced the death of a family member or a friend and are learning to live with it. So just what is grief?
Grief is the experience you have when you have lost someone or something important to you. It can look and feel different for everyone and there is no magical timeframe for when it ends. Grief takes on different shapes, behaviors and attitudes such as anger, guilt, illness, worry, confusion and a drop in grades.
Some teens choose creative outlets for their grief, such as playing music. Some choose physical outlets like sports and some just need to feel as normal as possible or talk to someone who understands what they are going through.
Help and support are available:
- Grief Speak (PDF)
- Online Grief Discussion Groups
- Books for Teens on Grief and Loss (PDF)
- Grief Gone Wild (PDF)
- Bill of Rights For Grieving Teens (PDF)
- How Teens Experience Grief (PDF)
- What Teens Need When They Grieve (PDF)
- How to Comfort a Bereaved Teen (PDF)
- Factors that Inhibit a Teen's Grief (PDF)
- The Grieving Family, A Contract for Healing (PDF)
- Circle of Life Death Education Program (PDF)
- Developmental Stages and Children's Responses to Grief (PDF)
- Explaining Funerals to Young Children (PDF)
- What we can do to Help Children Deal with Death and Grief (PDF)