Resources for Youth

Information

• TeensHealth
• American Society of Clinical Oncology
• Mayo Clinic

Support

• Kara – Grief Support
• The National Center for Grieving Children & Families
• Hospice of the Valley
• The Center for Grieving Children
• Good Grief
• GriefNet

Forums/Blogs

• Online Grief Support
• Grief Healing
• Diary of a Widower

• Chill & Spill – Guided therapeutic journal
• The Healing Your Grieving Heart Journal for Teens – Guided therapeutic journal

Ted Talks

• The Adventure of Grief
• Good Grief! What I Learned From Loss
• Let’s Talk About Dying
• Beyond Closure

Loss to Suicide

Fiction

• The Last Time We Said Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

Nonfiction

• After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief  by Bob Baugher, Ph.D., and Jack Jordan, Ph.D.
• Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One by Ann Smolin and John Guinan
• Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide by Christopher Lukas and Henry Seiden
• An Empty Chair: Living In The Wake of a Sibling’s Suicide by Sara Swan Miller
• After by Francis Chalifour
• Complicated Grief: A Collection of Poems by Deborah Golden Alecson
• From the Ashes Flies the Phoenix: Creating a Powerful Life After a Suicide by Gretta Krane

Loss of Relative

Fiction

• Cures for Heartbreak by Margo Rabb
• Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
• Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
• Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith
• The Last Forever by Deb Caletti

Nonfiction

• Never the Same by Donna Schuurman

Loss of Friend

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
• When a Friend Dies: A book for teens about grieving and healing by Marilyn Gootman

Journals

• Chill and Spill
• The Healing Your Grieving Heart Journal for Teens

• Crisis Call Hotline – 800-273-8255 or text ANSWER to 839863
• Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) – 800-959-TAPS (8277)
• Thursday’s Child National Youth Advocacy Hotline – 800-USA-KIDS (800-872-5437)
• National Mental Health Association Hotline – 800-273-TALK (8255)