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When someone in your family dies by suicide

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It can feel hard to find the right words to talk about suicide. Why is this? Because every life lost to suicide is as unique as the person who died and what words feel right for one family often don’t feel right for another. Whether the death of their important ...
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How to answer difficult questions about a bereavement

Advice, Blog, News
Children and young people will often have lots of questions after the death of somebody close to them. Sometimes, those questions are difficult to answer. How do you answer those questions? Emma and Gemma, from our Bereavement Support Team, discuss these situations and how you can answer the difficult questions from ...
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How to prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer

Advice
It will inevitably be very difficult for children and young people when a parent has cancer and may die. From having open and honest conversations to building memories, there are a number of ways you can prepare a child for the death of a parent by cancer. If there is another ...
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How to approach the New Year after a bereavement

Advice, Blog, News
So, you’ve manage to make it through Christmas. Well done! There’s every chance that there’ve been times that were good or dare I say even fun, but with every likelihood also times tinged with sadness when the loss of your loved one was so obvious and evident. Now, as you ...
Explaining homicide to children

How school teachers can help bereaved children

Advice, Blog, News
The following blog post has been written by Robert Kruze, a Primary School teacher in the North West and a volunteer at Winston's Wish. He explores the ways in which school teachers can help children who have been bereaved.  The daily life of a classroom teacher can be extremely manic but no ...
How to help a grieving friend

How to help a grieving friend

Advice, Blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FL62iMC7AA&t=16s One of the toughest situations facing bereaved young people can be how to deal with their friends. They may be the only person in their friendship group or at their school that have experienced a bereavement. In this video, Laura from our South West team discusses how you can help a ...

The impact bereavement can have on young carers

Advice, Blog
Young carers can feel very lost if the person they were caring for dies. It is important to remember that a young carer may have taken a major role in the care of their loved one, so when that person dies, not only is the child struggling with the loss ...
Alternative goodbyes

Alternative goodbyes

Advice
It is never too late to hold a memorial or other ceremony for an important person. You could consider linking this to an important date – for example the date of their death, or of the funeral or of their birthday. Children and young people who did not attend the ...
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