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Title:

When Families Grieve, A Sesame Workshop Production

Url:

http://www.sesameworkshop.org/grief

Creator:

Sesame Workshop
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury

Description: When Families Grieve is the most
recent resource of Sesame Workshop
and DCoE’s Talk, Listen, Connect initiative,a multiphase, bilingual, multimedia initiative that guides families through the kinds of changes that are often intrinsic to military life.
The goals of the most recent phase,
When Families Grieve, include:
. Reducing the levels of anxiety,
sadness and confusion that children
may experience following the death
of a parent
. Providing families with age appropriate tools to support and
comfort children, including ways to
talk about death with a young child
. Reassuring children that they are
loved and safe and that together
with their families and friends, they
can learn ways of being there for
one another and move forward,

Resources include:
. Outreach kits tailored separately
for military families and the general
public containing a DVD featuring
the Sesame Street Muppets and
documentary footage of families
who have experienced the death of
a parent due to a variety of situations, as well as print materials specially designed to help families cope with losing a family member
. Web site, www.sesamestreet.org/grief,
providing videos and all downloadable
print resources.
With help from organizational partnerships,
Sesame Workshop will distribute
over 800,000 free When Families Grieve
kits to families and organizations within the military and the general public that provide services and resources to grieving families, including: military service casualty offices, childhood grief
centers, counselors and others.

Classification:

Treatment Resources (LCSH)
Social Support Networks/Resources (LCSH)
Grief (LCSH)
Family (LCSH)
Death (LCSH)
Child Development/Children (LCSH)
Active Duty Service Members (LCSH)

Date Issued:

2010

Resource Type:

Website (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Program/Project (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Fact Sheet/brochure (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
DVD (DCMI Type Vocabulary)

Format:

plain
html
Audio

Audience:

School System and Educators
Military Families and Service Members
Health Care and Service Providers: Military
Health Care and Service Providers: Civilian
Children: Toddlers 4-5 years
Children: Infants 0-3 years

Language:

Spanish
English

Rights:

Sesame Workshop

Coverage:

Program to help families with children 2-8 cope with the death of a love one.

Source:

Sesame Workshop

Email Address:

patricia.martinez.ctr@usuhs.mil

Date Of Record Creation:

2010-05-04 13:27:19 (W3C-DTF)

Date Of Record Release:

2010-05-04 14:29:36 (W3C-DTF)

Date Record Checked:

2010-05-04 (W3C-DTF)

Date Last Modified:

2010-05-04 14:33:37 (W3C-DTF)

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