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This Thursday, and every third Thursday in November, is Children’s Grief Awareness Day across the US. With Thanksgiving coming a week later and other holidays soon to follow, the date is purposefully chosen. This is a difficult time of year. If you and others in your circle of family and caregivers are grieving the death of…

Hey, thanks for clicking through on our Facebook post! Let me explain a little more about what we’re looking for…Remember in our last post we talked about our new partnership with Camp Hometown Heroes, and our new HOPE Squad? Well, we need a way to get the HOPE Squad to Wisconsin, and that way is…

Memorial Day is a day set aside to remember and honor people who have died serving in our country’s armed forces. That is why we have chosen Memorial Day to announce a new partnership. This summer, Children’s Grief Connection will partner with Camp Hometown Heroes to provide the  grief support and programming portion of their…

  Whatever your age, whether 8, 28, 48, or 88, losing a mother is one of the hardest things to go through, especially when Mother’s Day comes around. Here are five things that may help: Remember your mother on Mother’s Day. Remember you are grieving the loss of your mother on this day. Even if you…

Mother’s Day is coming, and while many people are thinking of ideas to recognize their own mothers on Mother’s Day, there is an “invisible” group of women for whom this day may be very painful. Grieving mothers. So, what can you do for them? Here’s a quick list: Acknowledge that this day may be painful…

The internet is FULL of grief resources, references and recommendations. There is a site out there for everyone as they traverse their grief. I recently got a chance to view a particularly insightful video from two women who never intended to be a grief resource. Their web videos are titled  I Mom So Hard. Kristin Hensley…