Care for the Caregiver: Grief Support Resources
Caregivers play a powerful role in shaping how children experience and move through grief. Research reminds us that a caring, consistent relationship with a trusted adult is the strongest protective factor against adverse childhood experiences. This resource hub is designed to come alongside parents and caregivers with simple, meaningful tools to strengthen connection and support the family grief process.
Here, you’ll find quick links to activities and additional resources to help foster open expression, honor your person, and build protective factors. Caring for yourself is part of caring for children. Together, these small, intentional moments can help nurture resilience across the entire family.
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Strengthening Bonds Activities | Communication Activities | Grief Education Activities | Memory Activities | Honoring & Remembering Activities | Bonus Activities | Books | Caregiver Guidebook | Videos | Articles | Support Programs
Strengthening Bonds Activities:
Honoring & Remembering Activities:
- Children’s Books on Grieving the Loss of a Parent
- Children’s Books on Grieving the Loss of a Grandparent
- Children’s Books on Grieving the Loss of a Sibling
- Children’s Books on Grieving the Loss of a Friend
- Children’s Books on Anticipatory Loss
- Books for Grieving Parents and Caregivers
- Eluna’s Caregiver Guidebook includes supportive insights & interactive activities to accompany caregivers through the waves of grief & loss. With a personal tone, the Guidebook welcomes & walks alongside caregivers with the guiding principle, “How do we grieve together as a family?”
Recorded Camp Erin Online Webinars:
- Caregiver Guidance: Supporting Your Family’s Grief through the Winter & Holidays
- Caregiver Guidance: Prep for Summer and Back to School
- Sesame Workshop: Growing as we Grieve
- How do you help a grieving friend?
- How to use Creative Expression for Grief Support
- Care for the Caregiver
- Caring for your Camper after Camp
- How to Honor & Remember Someone Who Died – A Family Centered Approach
- Grief by Age: Developmental Stages and Ways to Help
- Camp Erin® is the largest national free grief camp network for kids, teens, and families grieving the death of a significant person in their lives. A variety of day, overnight, and online camp programs empower youth and their adult caregivers to explore their grief, build coping skills, and have fun in a supportive community through a mix of grief support and camp activities.
- Camp Erin Online provides free, online support for families to come together, learn ways to navigate grief, and connect with others who have shared experiences. Through ongoing family grief support groups and creative grief expression events, families can be intentional about setting aside time and space to reconnect and remember together.
- Eluna’s Resource Center provides confidential, Personalized Support in English and Spanish, along with a comprehensive Resource Library and National Program Guide for youth and their caregivers impacted by grief or addiction. On a mission to educate and equip, the Eluna Resource Center also offers tailored trainings and tools for support professionals, plus the unique ability to save and share customized resource lists with the families you serve.
