NAIS has compiled resources to help schools support their staff members, students, and families who are experiencing loss and grief during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Please note: The following links and content are for informational purposes only, and do not constitute legal, medical, or other professional advice. The opinions expressed in these resources are those of their respective author(s), and do not necessarily reflect NAIS positions or policies. NAIS does not endorse, promote, or guarantee any products or services referenced in these resources.
- Coalition to Support Grieving Students (comprehensive site for dedicated to empowering schools to effectively support grieving students of all ages): Special COVID resources
- National Alliance for Grieving Children: COVID-19 resources
- The Dougy Center: Comprehensive national resource for grieving children and families
- Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters Health System: Is This Grief? Kids, Cancellations, and Coronavirus
- The Dinner Party: Growing worldwide grief platform for “20-30 somethings to find a peer community and build lasting relationships.”
- Grief Speaks: Cultures and Grief (overview of grief practices in different cultural groups)
- Shiva.com: A New Grief: Staying Connected to Help-COVID 19-Coronavirus
- University of Hertfordshire: Managing Grief Better: For People With Intellectual Disabilities
- USA Today: 'We are dead': People with disabilities fear they will be on losing end of doctors' life-or-death choices amid coronavirus crisis
- The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities (Rutgers) Grief Resources
- Responding to Grief Reactions of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Ritualizing Grief with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Resources: Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and Grief, Death, & Dying
- Helping People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Process Grief
- Good Grief: Funerals in the time of a pandemic (resource for families, children)
- The Center for Loss & Life Transitions: The Mourner's Bill of Rights (Spanish & English)
- Grief.com: Comprehensive site exploring the stages of grief
- Daily online grief support group
- Love is Louder: Resources for getting help and feeling better
- National Association of School Psychologists: Addressing Grief: Tips for Teachers and Administrators
- Healthline: How ‘Anticipatory Grief’ May Show Up During COVID-19 Outbreak
- American Psychological Association: Grief and COVID-19: Mourning Our Bygone Lives
- Psychology Today: Necessary Self Care During COVID: Working Through Loss
- American Counseling Association: Trauma and Disaster Mental Health Resource Page
- Journey of Hope Grief Support Center: Recommended Resource Page