Good Grief – Strategies for Supporting Children Who Are Grieving

The death of a significant person represents one of the most powerful disruptions in all aspects of a child or youth’s emotional existence. Unfortunately it’s all too common in our society for children to be on the receiving end of well-intended yet misguided advice. And yet at its core, grief is a natural and healthy process and children possess many innate tools to help them process and integrate grief into their life. In this workshop Andrea will share practical and creative grief support strategies that can be used by anyone who finds themselves in the position of supporting a grieving child or youth, whether personally or professionally.               

Our speaker for the day will be Andrea Warnick, MA, RN, RP, Education Director, Co-Owner & CEO AWC Grief Support. Andrea is a Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Nurse whose passion lies in helping individuals, families and communities support people of all ages who are grieving an illness or death in their lives. She brings to her work a rare mixture of medical and psychosocial expertise. Andrea developed and teaches the 5 Day Certificate Program in Children’s Grief and Bereavement at SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health. She was also the lead content developer for KidsGrief.ca and KidsGrief for Educators.