The one hour primetime television special features Katie Couric and the Sesame Street Muppets and presents families’ personal stories about coping with the death of a parent, as well as strategies that have helped these families move forward.
The When Families Grieve program is part of a larger initiative that includes multimedia and bi-lingual (English and Spanish) resource kits that aim to help families with young children:
- Reduce the levels of anxiety, sadness, and confusion that children may experience following the death of a parent;
- Provide families with age-appropriate tools to support and comfort children, including ways to talk about death with a young child; and
- Reassure children that they are loved and safe, and that together with their families and friends, they can learn ways of being there for one another and move forward.
HFA's education webinar series, Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Grief and Loss, is examining children's grief in-depth. The three-part series includes:
Bereavement Camps for Kids: Benefits and Challenges (archived, on-demand, available through January 31, 2011.) Panelists include: Sherry Schachter, Director of Calvary Hospital's annual bereavement camp in New York; Angela Hamblen, Director of Camp Good Grief in Tennessee; Bonnie Carroll, Executive Director of TAPS, which offers support to those suffering the loss of a military loved one; and Lesa Linster, National Camp Erin Project Director at The Moyer Foundation.
Bereaved Children and Adolescents: Lessons from Research (archived, on-demand, available through April 13, 2011.) Panelists include J. William Worden, co-principal investigator for the Harvard Child Bereavement Study and Irwin N. Sandler, Regent's Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University.
Grieving Children and Adolescents: The Role of Internet Support on Tuesday, June 15. Panelists will include Pamela Gabbay of the Mourning Star Center and National Alliance of Grieving Children and Cendra Lynn, founder of GriefNet and KidsAid.com.
Register for the series here. The Organization Registration Fee for the three-part series is $250, which allows access to both the live webcast and an archived online program for one year past the live webinar, with unlimited complimentary CEs (1.5 hours) available for a wide range of professions. If purchased separately, the Organization Fee is $100 per program. Individuals may register for each webinar for $35 and 1.5 hours of CE credit is included for the registered individual. To learn more, contact HFA at 800-854-3402 or see the website.
