Today is Children's Grief Awareness Day

EnglishMajor

I didn't know of this resource, I will share with a friend whose granchildren recenly lost their dad:

A Special Day to Remember-How It Began

Children's Grief Awareness Day began in Pennsylvania, growing out of the partnership of the Highmark Caring Place with hundreds of schools across the state - the Caring Team for Children-and the desire of the students to do more to bring attention to what their classmates were dealing with for the most part in silence.

After touring the Caring Place and learning about how alone and misunderstood their peers often felt after a death, Caring Place staff and Caring Team students worked together to inaugurate the first Children's Grief Awareness Day in 2008. Since 2009, businesses and corporations have also become involved.

In just three years, hundreds of schools from across Pennsylvania, reaching nearly 150,000 students, have worked in many ways to raise awareness of grieving children-from having all the students wear blue on that day to holding assemblies and bake sales, sponsoring Silly Hat Days, and having students make presentations to all the Social Studies classes in the high school.

Another easy way to show support to grieving children is to visit the Children's Grief Awareness Day Facebook page and, if you like what you see, you can officially "Like" the page. As grieving children see more and more people supporting this page, they can have a greater sense that they are not so alone in their grief-that others do care about what they are facing day after day.

http://www.highmarkcaringplace.com/cp2/index.shtml