Bereavement & Grief Library
This collection of resources focuses on grief after a death.
Here you’ll find guidance for when someone has died, is dying, or when families and communities are navigating life after a loss. It includes support for parents, carers, and professionals helping children and young people through bereavement, whether the death was expected, sudden, traumatic, or complex.
The Bereavement & Grief Library explores themes such as:
- Death and dying
- Life after a death
- Sudden, traumatic, or unexpected loss
- Suicide and complex grief
- Supporting families, peers, schools, and communities after a death
These guides help adults understand what grief can look like at different ages, offer practical ways to talk and respond, and reassure you that there is no single ‘right’ way to grieve.
Supporting children and young people through terminal diagnosis
When Everything Changes
Supporting children when someone they love has a terminal illness
Watching Someone Fade
Supporting young people when someone they love has a terminal illness
Death, Dying, and the Time Around a Death
Curious About Death
Talking honestly with a child about death
Through Their Eyes: Babies & Toddlers (16–25yrs)
Understanding grief, worry, and what children and young people need most
Through Their Eyes: Babies & Toddlers (0–2yrs)
Understanding grief, worry, and what children and young people need most
Through Their Eyes: Babies & Toddlers (0–2yrs)
Understanding grief, worry, and what children and young people need most
Through Their Eyes: Babies & Toddlers (0–2yrs)
Understanding grief, worry, and what children and young people need most
Through Their Eyes: Babies & Toddlers (0–2yrs)
Understanding grief, worry, and what children and young people need most
Time to Say Goodbye
Supporting children and young people around the time of death
Talking About funerals
Helping children & young people understand funerals and rituals after a death
When Their Things Remain
A Glimmer Guide to Facing Bedrooms, Houses, and Belongings After Loss
Bereavement across ages & relationships
Too Young For This, Too Old for That
Support bereaved young adults
When Their Friend Dies
Supporting a child or young person after the death of a peer
Older and Afraid
When a young adult fears losing a parent
Grief within Families & Identity
When a Father is Grieving
How a parent’s grief can affect family life
When a Mother is Grieving
How a parent’s grief can affect family life
When Boys Are Grieving
Supporting boys & young men through loss
When girls Are Grieving
Supporting girls & young women through loss
Complex & layered relationships
Grieving From A Distance
When a child or young person grieves an estranged family member
Loving Someone Who Hurt You
When a child or young person is grieving someone who also caused harm
When Losses Keep Coming
Supporting children and young people through multiple or cumulative losses
Pregnancy Loss, fertility grief and baby loss
When A Baby Doesn’t Come
Helping young children understand pregnancy or baby loss
They’re Old Enough to Notice - What Do I Tell Them?
Supporting older children and pre-teens after pregnancy or baby loss
What If This Happens to Me Too?
Supporting young people after pregnancy or baby loss
Grieving the Baby Who Never Came
Parenting while carrying fertility or pregnancy loss
When IVF Involves Loss
Supporting adults through IVF-related grief
Carrying Personal Loss While Supporting Children
For caring professionals
When a Baby, Child or Young Person Dies
After Baby Loss
Supporting children and young people after pregnancy or baby loss
When a Child Dies
Supporting children after the death of a baby or child
When a Young Person Dies
Supporting young people after the death of a peer
When a teen dies
Helping children understand and grieve the death of a teenager
Sudden, Traumatic or Unexpected Loss
When the World Shatters
Understanding sudden or unexpected bereavement in children and young people
Suicide and suicide-related Bereavement
When Someone Dies by Suicide
Supporting a child or young person after a death by suicide
After The Scare
Supporting young people when a peer has attempted or died by suicide
Talking About Suicide Gently
How to talk to children about suicide
Talking About Suicide Honestly
How to talk to young people about suicide
When a Community Is Affected
Supporting families after a suicide within a school or community
Supporting Children and Young People With Grief in Schools, Church & Communities
When Someone Is Dying
How schools and communities can support a child or young person
When a Community Grieves
Supporting a school or community during serious illness child or young person
Returning After Loss
Supporting pupils after a bereavement
Grief in the Classroom
Supporting children and young people after a death
When Peers Are Hurting
How youth groups can respond to grief and loss
Creating Compassionate Communities
Supporting children and young people through shared grief
