Coalition to Support Grieving Students
Empowering School Communities to support their grieving students
The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a unique collaboration of the leading professional organizations representing classroom educators, principals, administrators, student support
personnel, and other school professionals who have come together with a common conviction: grieving students need the support and care of the school community. The Coalition’s purpose is to create and share a set of industry-endorsed resources that will empower school communities across America in the ongoing support of their grieving students.
Our Task
The Coalition to Support Grieving Students has come together to remedy a current gap in the
educational professions: the development of a set of resources broadly approved by leading
professional organizations to guide educators and other school personnel in supporting and caring
for their grieving students. The primary resource — grievingstudents.org — provides practical,
accessible information for classroom educators, principals, administrators, and student support
personnel and other school professionals who have come together with a common conviction. This
user-friendly, interdisciplinary site represents a major step forward in enabling educators
to learn about the issue of childhood grief and develop an understanding of how to help. Informed
by the expertise of leading bereavement expert Dr. David Schonfeld, with feedback and contribution from each participating organization, this online resource captures current best practices for addressing grief at school through a dynamic multimedia approach.
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