More Resources for Grieving Children

Organizations/Websites:

The Dougy Center, The National Center for Grieving Children & Families
503-775-5683, www.dougy.org
Publishes extensive resources for helping children and teens who are grieving the death of a parent, sibling, or friend, including, "After Suicide: A Workbook for Grieving Kids."
The Dougy Center also has a national online directory of support groups for children.

Sesame Street Workshop's When Families Grieve: www.sesameworkshop.org/grief
A website with tips, videos, a children’s story, and guide to help your family communicate with one another and express emotions after a death. Not specific to suicide loss.
The National Alliance for Grieving Children
http://www.nationalallianceforgrievingchildren.org
Provides a national directory of grief support programs, online resources, and written materials for children, teens, and their families.  Also provides a network for nationwide communication between hundreds of children's bereavement centers who want to share ideas, information and resources with each other to better support the families they serve in their own communities.

Books/Articles:

Children of suicide: The telling and the knowing. Albert C. Cain, Psychiatry, Summer 2002. Vol. 65, Issue 2, pages 124-137.   This is a research overview, easily understood by laypeople. 
Someone I Love Died By Suicide: A Story for Child Survivors and Those Who Care for Them. Doreen Cammarata, Grief Guidance, Inc., 2000. An illustrated book that explains depression and suicide in child-friendly language.
After. Francis Chalifour, Tundra, 2005. Nominated for the Canadian Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, this autobiographical novel tells the story of 15-year-old Francis’s struggles with guilt, anger, profound sadness and search for hope, during the first year after his father’s suicide. 
After a Suicide: A Workbook for Grieving Kids.Developed for use with children, this workbook combines explanations of mental illness and suicide, creative exercises, practical advice, and quotations from child survivors.  Available through The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families (www.dougy.org).
After a Suicide: Young People Speak Up. Susan Kuklin, Putnam Publishing Group, 1994. Nine personal accounts of survivors, many of whom are teens. Each account focuses on a specific topic, such as losing a parent, losing a sibling, seeking therapy, support groups.
My Uncle Keith Died. Carol Ann Loehr, Trafford Publishing, 2006. Written in clear simple language easily understood by children, this book offers hope and practical ways to explain suicide to children. It explains the difference between sadness and depression, and describes