To request copies of Mommy's Light's bereavement education materials, including our DVD "When a Mother Dies...Breaking Down the Walls of Silence," and our Warning Signs Brochure, click Request Information Form. Click here for a printer friendly copy of the Warning Signs Brochure. Click and select the school counselor box.
Click here for a list of on-line resources and bereavement support services for Delaware Valley. Note that The Dougy Center web site, www.GrievingChild.org, lists child/teen bereavement support centers across the United States.
Cancer Education in Asian and Pacific Islander Languages http://cancer.org/apicem Through this site you can select the type of cancer and a specific language to find all of the materials available. You can also select a specific topic, such as early detection, to narrow the search results.
The following books and DVDs are available for purchase at http://www.griefstore.com/.
When Death Impacts Your School by The Dougy Center...$9.95 A valuable resource for school personnel who are faced with a death or tragedy in their school community. This guidebook includes suggestions for how schools can help students-by addressing concerns, organizing memorials and offering support. It also includes instructions for developing a school intervention plan after a death, how to address issues related to suicide and violence and how to know when outside help is needed.
Helping the Grieving Student by The Dougy Center...$10.00 At some point, every teacher will encounter a student who has been affected by a death. This guidebook is an essential resource for elementary, middle and high school teachers, offering practical tips and information for how to respond to a death.
Helping Children Cope by The Dougy Center...$10.00 Provides a comprehensive, easy-to-read overview of issues facing grieving children, and ways to help them. Based on The Dougy Center's work with children, teens and families, this guidebook contains information on a child's understanding of death, relevant developmental issues, how to explain death to children, how to know when to get professional help, and much more. For parents, teachers, social workers, counselors, youth workers or anyone who knows a grieving child and wants to help.
Class in Room 44 by Centering Corporation...$6.95 For elementary school children. We share feelings when Tony, leaving early for vacation, is killed. The class talks about anger, guilt, remembering and saying goodbye. Helps explain all the different feeling when a classmate dies and encourages open discussion.
Grief Comes to Class by Centering Corporation...$6.95 The purpose of this book is to assist school personnel, primarily the classroom teacher, in being a positive, significant caregiver for the bereaved students. This book is also meant to aid parents of grieving students and to provide help for the student as he/she re-enters the school environment following the death experience.
Healing a Child's Heart by Alan Wolfelt...$12.00 A child you know is grieving. But how can you help? This book offers 100 practical, kid-friendly ideas for helping children mourn well so they can grow to live well and love well again. Turn to any page and seize the day by supporting this child today, right now, right this minute. A concise, easy-to-use resource for parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, teachers, coaches--and a good refresher for professional caregivers.
Keys to Helping Children by Joy Johnson...$9.00 Joy Johnson, an experienced bereavement specialist, tells parents how to explain the concept of death in ways that will be understandable to children. She helps parents anticipate children's responses and needs, show how to cope with funeral rites in meaningful ways, and points out the importance of incorporating the loss into a positive sense of personal memories.
When Death Walks In by Mark Scrivani...$3.99 Includes information about going back to school, dreams, friends and looks at ways of facing grief during the teen years. Gives important information about grief and what we can do about anger, sadness and all the emotions that come when death walks in.
I Heard Your Mommy Died by Mark Scrivani...$5.00 This book, specifically written for children ages 3-7, gives quick tips about how to help children when their mother dies. Memories, keepsakes, and other rememberances are encouraged.
35 Ways to Help Grieving Child by The Dougy Center...$10.00 If you know a child who has experienced the death of a mother, father, caregiver, sister, brother or friend, you may have wondered how you can help. The thousands of grieving children and teens at The Dougy Center have taught a lot about what does and doesn't help them. The Dougy Center has gathered together the most important stuff we've learned from the kids, and the result is this guidebook. The information in these pages is simple and practical and is drawn from the stories of children and teenagers who have been on the front lines of grief.
Helping Teens Cope with Death by The Dougy Center...$10.00 Adolescence is a period of profound changes. When a teen also deals with a major loss, those developmental changes and the turmoil they create, can be compounded. Learn how a death of a loved one can impact a teen and how to help. This practical guide explains common grief reactions of teenagers, specific challenges grieving teens face, advice from parents to parents on supporting their adolescent, when to seek professional help, and much more. An invaluable resource for anyone wanting to support a grieving teen - taken directly from what teens have taught us about supporting them
What Color is Dead by Darcie D. Sims...$50.00 (DVD set) Talking to children about death is a challenge. No one knows what to say and everyone wants to make the hurt "go away." Darcie Sims presents a complete and comprehensive overview of death from a child's view. A bereaved parent, Darcie combines common sense and personal experience with professional training and education.
A Child's View of Grief by Alan Wolfert...$7.00
Supporting Children and Teens by Center For Grieving Children...$8.00
Children Grieve Too by Centering Corporation...$4.00
Children Also Grieve by Linda Goldman...$22.95
Teacher's Guide to Grieving Students by Hospice of Lancaster County...$5.50
Children's Grief by Medic Corporation...$1.50
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