Support for children
Children and teens grieve too and their reactions to grief depend on many things, including their development stage.
Mary Potter Hospice offers free-of-charge counselling and arts therapy sessions for children under 18 years of age. Please speak to a Hospice staff member if you feel your child may benefit from these services.
Listed below are a range of links to resources that you may find helpful when supporting your child through the times ahead.
Online resources:
- Tamariki winter newsletter & activities
- Rangatahi winter newsletter & activities
- Kidshealth.org.nz
- Kidshealth.org
- Healthnavigator.org.nz
- Skylight.org.nz
- Doughy.org
- Ballonscharity.co.uk
- Winstonswish.org
- Childmind.org
- Help2makesense.org
- www.kenziesgift.com
Helpful books:
- The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
- The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends by Helen Fitzgerald
- The Memory Tree by Britta Teckentrup
- The Memory Book by Joanna Rowland
- In My Heart by Jo Witek
- Someone I Love Died by Christine Harder Tangvald
- Big Life Journal (ages 7-10)
- Big Life Journal for Tweens and Teens (ages 11+)