Helpful Websites

The Association is an international, professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence and recognizing diversity in death education, care of the dying, grief counseling and research in thanatology. Based on quality research, theory and practice, the association provides information, support and resources to its international, multicultural, multidisciplinary membership and to the public.

CareDimensions offers bereavement counseling, support groups, and workshops to families across Massachusetts. The organization also offers grief resources and programs for children and teens who are grieving.

Centering is an organization dedicated to providing education and resources for bereaved families. They offer over 500 grief resources for children and adults available for purchase at https://centering.org/shop-all/.

The Children's Room: Caring Support for Grieving Children, Teens and Families is the leading non-profit bereavement support program in Massachusetts that offers peer-support groups, Family Night, Parenting Series, Education and consultations. Our support services are for families with children 3 - 18 who have experienced the death of a parent or sibling.

The Choice Mutual website provides helpful information on how to help children understand and cope with loss according to the child's developmental age.

The Compassionate Friends website provides highly specific personal comfort, hope and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family to prevent intense pain, hopeless and isolated.

The center provides a safe place for children, teens, young adults and their families who are grieving death to share their experience through peer support groups, education and training.

Empty Arms is a community resource that works to connect people in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts with one another so that they feel less alone. They offer a wide variety of resources to try to meet each person where they’re at and provide them with whatever level of support feels comfortable and appropriate at the time.

For finding a private and face-to-face therapist or a counselor in your local area for private and specific communication.

A program at Boston Medical Center that offers support for children and families who have experienced the death of a loved one. 

This non-profit corporation aims at helping parents, their families and their healthcare providers to cope with the loss of a baby before, during or after birth. With this resource network, variety of services are provided.

The website is powered by American Academy of Pediatrics and the article here described clearly about how children understand death and what should caregivers say to them at different age stages.

This website provides families with perspective, advice and comfort about a wide range of physical, emotional and behavioral issues that might affect children and teens. Most importantly, the way to explain death in children's term can be found here.

Through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, general explanation of the importance of the psychological and behavioral changes for children in bereaved families and methods to deal with it are provided here.

Return to Zero: HOPE is a non-profit organization engaging a global community of bereaved parents and their health providers to improve mental health outcomes, while also advancing pregnancy and infant loss awareness, education, and support.

A research program at Boston Children's Hospital that works with families who have suffered the sudden and unexpected death of a child.

This is a booklet to help parents care for children, following the death of a baby.

This website is for anyone who has experienced the tragic loss of a baby including grandparents, siblings, and others. Resources include professionals who care for grieving families. bed-side companions, phone support, face-to-face support group meetings, resource packets, private online communities, memorial events, training for caregivers, and online support groups.

This website provides developmentally appropriate tips, videos, stories, and guides to help your family communicate with one another, express emotions, and begin the process of moving forward.

The TEARS Foundation offers emotional and financial support to families after the loss of their child (from pregnancy to age 12). Families are offered a safe place to remember and talk about their child. The center offers one on one per companion support, monthly support group, resource library, comfort kits, and gathering to remember and honor their child. Support groups are  free and open to bereaved parents only at this time. No registration is required to attend. This is a welcoming, safe space for any bereaved parent who has experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, or neonatal loss. 

Tender Hearts is a grief support community, with 24/7 access to their private website and community which offers weekly discussions surrounding grief, online check-ins, weekly lessons and worksheets, and a community to connect with others. Tender Hearts cost $34 a month to join, with the ability to cancel at any point.

This website is to promote grief education, exploration and expression in both practical and creative ways. In this website, information that includes modes of self-exploration and self-expressions for all types of thinkers and doers, methods to honor and remember deceased loved ones and ways to construct supportive community could be found.