Supporting your Children and Teens
Self-Guided Camp HOPE Grief Activities
Journals & Books We Recommend
Here are some of the books and journals we'd recommend. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but a beginning to help you in your search for support.
How I Feel
Grief Journal for Kids
A journal for grieving children to explore their emotions and hold their memories close.
Fire In My Heart,
Ice In My Veins
A journal for teens that uses their own creativity to work through their grieving process
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This journal will be given to the teen campers that attend a Camp HOPE weekend.
How I Feel: A Coloring Book for Grieving Children
A coloring book for young children going through grief. It provides the words for the feelings they might have after losing someone they love.
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This journal will be given to the young campers that attend a Camp HOPE weekend.
Grief is Love
Living with Loss
The Astonishing Color of After
Great for older teens and adult alike. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. ​ This is a novel about finding oneself through family history, art, bravery, and love, all while grieving the death of her mother.
Navigating Grief
A Guided Journal
A guided journal with "gentle but insightful journal prompts" to help you in your grief journey.
Helpful Tools from Other Organizations
Why recreate the wheel when there are SO MANY great organizations that we can refer you to for resources. These are some of our favorites.
The Dougy Center is a national organization that is one of our personal favorites. The resources for caregivers, teens, children, and supporters are extensive. They have podcasts, activities, books, short articles and more.
Hope's House
This is a local organization based in the Fox Valley. In addition to their in person groups and partnership with Camp HOPE, they also have an extensive list of resources.
The NACG is a national organization that serves both clinicians and families experience grief. They have a ton of resources in both English and Spanish for caregivers, teens and children.
Other Grief Programming Around Wisconsin
We are proud to say that we've built some strong relationships with other organizations who offer a variety of therapeutic support, programming, and resources.
It truly takes a village.
Adults and children living in southern Wisconsin who are grieving can find hope and healing with the help of grief support specialists at Agrace.
Children’s Wisconsin offers a variety of services to help support and facilitate healthy grief. All services are free and open to the community.
The Center for Grieving Children facilitates healing, removes isolation, and builds a sense of hope through offering peer support groups to youth ages 3 - 18 and their families who are grieving a loss.
Unity Grief and Education Center offers grieving adults, children, and teens a safe haven to learn about grief, share experiences, and find hope.