You Can Do This: A Guide to Starting Grief Support Groups for Kids and Teens
Practical tips and engaging activities to help youth-serving professionals create meaningful, grief-informed support opportunities.
You Can Do This: A Guide to Starting Grief Support Groups for Kids and Teens
You don’t need to be a grief expert to create a meaningful space for grieving kids and teens. Through grief-informed practices and simple activities, you can help young people feel seen, heard, connected, and supported. Participants will leave with practical ideas and confidence to take the next step in offering grief support groups in your community.
This webinar will be most beneficial for:
- Professionals working in schools -teachers, counselors, interventionists, social workers, psychologists
- Mental health practitioners looking to expand their scope of practice to include grief support
- Youth program staff – camp counselors/directors, afterschool program leaders, community program staff
- Faith-based leaders – youth ministers, religious educators
- Health and end of life care – child life specialists, palliative care, hospice, mortuary/funeral homes
- Foster care & child welfare – foster/adoptive parents, CASA volunteers, child welfare caseworkers, child advocates
- College/university students in related fields of study
- Volunteers and youth-serving professionals interested in starting or supporting grief groups
Event Details:
- Friday, September 18
- Virtual
- 9-10AM PT | 12-1PM ET
- FREE
IMPORTANT: A unique Zoom link will be sent to the email address provided in your registration prior to the webinar. This Zoom link will be required to access the webinar session you select.
About the Speaker:
Kelly Petersohn is the Camp Erin Online Program Manager at Eluna, a non-profit organization with a mission to support youth and families impacted by grief or addiction. Kelly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 15 years of service in the field of childhood bereavement – developing and leading a multi-district school-based grief support program, providing school-based crisis support, and organizing and directing youth grief camps.
Supported by The Cigna Group Foundation, a private foundation that supports organizations sharing its commitment to improve the health and vitality of individuals and the communities. The views presented here are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Cigna Group Foundation or its directors, officers, or staff.
