The Power of Parenting: How to Help Your Child After a Parent or Caregiver Dies

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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 to help children hold on to the old while embracing the new and how to create comforting connections. In this fact sheet, co-developed by parents and professionals, parents share their knowledge gained from experience and provide practical, real life examples, that can help support families and their children who are experiencing grief and bereavement.

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Published in 2018

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Offers parents and caregivers information to help support their surviving children after a the death of a sibling due to substance use or overdose. This fact sheets includes information on helping children cope with stigma and shame, understanding the wide range of reactions that different family members may experience, coping with how substance use influences the family over time, adapting to loss, and prioritizing self-care and support for the parents or caregivers.

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Published in 2020