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Responding to School & Community Crises
How do historic and present-day death rituals and funeral practices in the Black community serve as acts of resistance? Dr. Kami Fletcher is...
How would you tell your children that their father murdered their grandparents? This is what Jenn, whose children were 6 and 10 at the time,...
Paula Becker is an author and mother of three. Her memoir, A House on Stilts, Mothering in the Age of Opiod Addiction, chronicles how she an...
Dr. Tashel Bordere has spent years researching the grief experience of black youth affected by homicide and gun violence. While many grievin...
In 2018, The Dougy Center was selected as one of a handful of children’s bereavement programs to partner with StoryCorps and the New York Li...
Judith Finneren's husband Ralph, or Ralphie as she liked to call him, was hit and killed while riding his bike in the summer of 2011. Even w...
When someone dies, many of us expect to cry and feel frustrated, but we aren’t as prepared for intense fear and worry. Anxiety can catch us ...
When someone dies, we often discover things about them we didn’t know before. Those discoveries can range from mundane preferences like real...
Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters at Columbine High School who, in 1999, killed twelve students and a teac...
Darwyn Dave is creator and host of the Dealing With My Grief podcast. In 1978, when Darwyn was ten years old, his father was killed. 38 year...
A lot goes into talking about the people in our lives who have died. Who do we tell? What do we share, not only about the person and what th...
