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November is Children's Grief Awareness Month.

Resources for ages 13–18

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Grief is hard, but knowing you are not alone can help. Use the filters on this page to find articles, podcast episodes, and activities just for you.

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Growing (Up) With Grief

What does it mean to grow and grow up with grief? Aliya, a recent high school graduate, spent the past three years reckoning both with her m...

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Teenage Grief Sucks - Natalie Adams

When Natalie's dad died suddenly at the start of her freshman year of high school, she searched, but couldn't find what she most needed: a r...

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Grief & Mother's Day - A Teen's Take

Chloe was 14 when her mother Danielle died of colon cancer. After Danielle died, Chloe and her younger sister moved in full-time with their ...

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Encore: Who Am I Now?

When we grieve, we miss the person and who they were in our lives. We miss who we were with them. Often we miss who we were in general befor...

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Mini-Episode - Ruby & Jana

In 2018, The Dougy Center was selected as one of a handful of children’s bereavement programs to partner with StoryCorps and the New York Li...

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The Goodbye Diaries - Marisa Bardach Ramel

Marisa Bardach Ramel was 17 when her mother Sally, received a stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis and given two months to live. While always...

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Mini-Episode - Megan, Michael, & Mason

Over the next few months, you'll hear short clips of these conversations in a series of mini-episodes. In this second mini-episode, Megan, M...

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A Mini-Episode - Josh & Sylvia

In 2018 The Dougy Center was selected as one of a handful of children’s bereavement programs to partner with StoryCorps and the New York Lif...

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Mindful Photography & Grief - Dr. Jessica Thomas, PhD, LMFT

There’s nothing like grief to take us completely out of the moment. We get pulled into the past where we try to remember everything we can w...

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Motherless Daughters, 25 Years Later - Hope Edelman & Brennan Wood

In 1994, The Dougy Center had been around for just over a decade. It was also the year Hope Edelman published her groundbreaking book, Mothe...

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Remembrance Wardrobe - Nicole Leslie

Sweaters, shoes, a favorite coffee mug, the pen always angled a certain way - items, big and small, create the landscapes left behind when s...

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Dear Me, A Mini-Episode

November is National Children's Grief Awareness Month and as part of the effort to raise awareness about children's grief, the National Alli...

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What's Changed For Grieving Children? The 1950's

In 1955 Jack was ten and living with his mother, who was raising him alone. She and Jack’s father adopted him when he was a tiny infant, whi...

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What I Needed - Tips From A Grieving Teen

Halfway through her junior year of high school, Lily's father died suddenly of a heart attack. As she made her way into this new landscape o...

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What's Changed For Grieving Children? The 1960's

Jana's dad's dad, Antonio DeCristofaro, died in 1963 and she talks with her dad, Tony, about how his dad's death when he was 14 drastically ...

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