This program is for caregivers and parents of children and adolescents who have experienced the death of their parent or caregiver. It is best to wait at least 3 months after the death before doing this program.

This program is based on strong research-based evidence showing that its tools strengthen resilience in bereaved children and parents. This program emphasizes practical tools for parenting bereaved children and taking care of yourself as a parent or caregiver.

The warmth, support, and structure provided by caregivers is critically important in helping children cope with loss. Our research over 30 years has shown that practicing the family-care tools you will learn in this program has a positive impact on bereaved children and can help them thrive.

In addition to the parenting tools, this program teaches practical tools for self-care, including being kind to yourself, setting and reaching personal goals, and guided meditation practices. Self-care is especially important for caregivers, since it is hard to take good care of others if you aren’t taking good care of yourself!

This program is self-paced, so you can complete the sessions whenever is convenient for you. Each session is about 30 minutes long. You receive one session a week for 10 weeks. You can take longer between sessions if needed to practice the tools with your children before you move to the next session.

Every bereaved family is different, and every grief experience is unique. The good news is that hundreds of bereaved parents have found the tools in this program to be very helpful for both their children and themselves.

Resilience is about doing well, and even thriving, after stressful situations, such as the death of a loved one. Parents and caregivers have told us that practicing this program’s parenting tools has helped their children and their family be resilient after loss.

At this time, this program is only available in English. We are working to develop a Spanish language version.