Grief Support Resources
Whether you are grieving or want to support a friend or family member, Unity offers resources geared toward adults, children and teens to help understand and navigate grief. A lending library is housed at Unity Grief and Education Center.
Resources for Adults who are Grieving
These resources include information to support adults through the grieving process including Unity’s newsletters which are designed as a quarterly offering to provide information to grieving individuals during the first year after a death.
Resources for Supporting Children & Teens through Grief
These resources include developmental information for each age group, ideas for supporting a child when someone is ill, ways to support the child when someone has died and suggested books that may be helpful.
Other Resources
Find articles, reading lists and links to other websites we recommend for adults and children who need help coping with grief after a death.
- Refuge in Grief – Information about grief and how to help someone who is grieving.
- Speaking Grief – A public media initiative aimed at creating a more grief-aware society by validating the experience of grievers and helping to guide those who wish to support them.
- What’s your Grief – A place for grief education, articles, sharing, support and more.
- Center for Loss and Life Transition – Organization dedicated to helping people who are grieving and those who care for them.
- Compassionate Friends – Peer support group for families whose children have died.
- Brown County Coalition for Suicide Prevention - A coalition dedicated to promoting awareness, providing education, overcoming stigma, supporting survivors, and preventing suicides in Brown County.
- The National Alliance for Children’s Grief - An organization specifically addressing issues about childhood bereavement with resources for children who are grieving and those who support them.
- The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families – A nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon that offers support and resources to grieving children, young adults and those who support them.
- Coalition to Support Grieving Students - A unique collaboration of professional organizations who have come together with a common conviction: grieving students need the support and care of the school community.
- Actively Moving Forward - Geared to supporting, connecting and empowering grieving young adults
- Camp Lloyd - A week long camp for grieving children (grades 2 - 9) during the summer and held on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus.
- Youth & Funerals EBook in English – Understanding the important role funerals and memorialization play in the lives of youth.
- Youth & Funerals EBook in Spanish – Understanding the important role funerals and memorialization play in the lives of youth.