When grief gets more complicated 

This webinar will focus on supporting grieving children and youth who face additional barriers to a healthy grief process. The facilitators will share strategies for supporting children who have experienced death by suicide, homicide, or substance use. They will discuss the concept of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) and highlight ways to identify signs of trauma in a child.

Please note: While we will deliver this training with a trauma-informed approach, it will emphasize recognizing, not treating, signs of trauma in children and youth.

We will share clinical examples, practical tools, and resources through small and large group discussions. The aim is to enhance participants’ confidence in providing grief support in clinically challenging situations.

Learning objectives:

• Support strategies and resources for supporting children who are grieving a death by suicide, homicide or substance use.
• Ways of identifying signs of trauma in children who are grieving.
• Literary, web, and local community supports available to support these populations of grieving children and youth.

Please note: This webinar is module 4 of the Children’s grief and bereavement certificate program; however, participants can also register for it as a stand-alone training to enhance their skills in supporting grieving children and families.