Archive for April 2026

Children’s Book: You Weren’t With Me Piplo Productions “You Weren’t With Me” was designed to help parents and children talk about difficult separations, reconnect, and find their way back to each other. Buy book (English) Buy Book (Spanish)

The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After a Parent or Caregiver Dies NCTSN Resource Offers guidance around helping children cope after the death of a loved one. Information is provided about how to face new fears in the context of bereavement, how grieving caregivers can take care of their own needs, how…

Childhood Traumatic Grief: Information for School Personnel NCTSN Resource Offers information on why school personnel are important for grieving students. This fact sheet outlines how children grieve, what Childhood Traumatic Grief is, who develops Childhood Traumatic Grief, what traumatic stress reactions in Childhood Traumatic Grief can look like, the signs a student might have Childhood…

Traumatic Separation and Refugee and Immigrant Children: Tips for Current Caregivers NCTSN Resource Provides tips for current caregivers and providers to help address the needs of immigrant and refugee children who have experienced traumatic separation. This tipsheet discusses the impact of sudden, chaotic, or unpredictable separation from parents and siblings including depression, anxiety, or separation-related…

Childhood Traumatic Separation: Youth Information Sheet NCTSN Resource Provides information for youth about separation distress, when separation can be traumatic for children and youth, traumatic reactions to separation, and what to do to feel better. Download PDF (English) Published in 2020  

Children with Traumatic Separation: Information for Professionals NCTSN Resource Provides information and suggestions for helping children who experience traumatic separation from a caregiver. This fact sheet describes how many children experience the loss of a caregiver, either permanently due to death, or for varying amounts of time due to other circumstances. Download PDF (English) Published…

Helping Young Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers NCTSN Resource Outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers suggestions on what caregivers can do to help. Download PDF (English) Published in 2014 Outlines the feelings of young children struggling with the death of someone meaningful and offers…

Helping School-Age Children with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers NCTSN Resource Describes how school-age children may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help. Download PDF (English) Published in 2014 Describes how school-age children may feel when struggling with the death of someone close…

Helping Teens with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers NCTSN Resource Describes how teens may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips on what caregivers can do to help. Download PDF (English) Published in 2014 Describes how teens may feel when struggling with the death of someone close and offers tips…