Helping healthcare professionals
who help grieving families
The Grief-Sensitive Healthcare Project
The Grief-Sensitive Healthcare Project fills the gap that exists in bereavement support within the U.S. healthcare system by equipping healthcare professionals with knowledge and skills about grief. A collaboration among the Yale Child Study Center, Child Bereavement UK, and the New York Life Foundation, this multifaceted project includes developing resources and providing trainings to healthcare professionals who work with bereaved families in any capacity.
Find Support & Resources
Grief is highly individual, and there is no one right way to help a bereaved family. Browse the topics below for tips and resources on grief-sensitivity based on a child’s age, or the specific type of loss a family has experienced.
- Communication skills
- Death of a parent or caregiver
- Infants and young children
- Death of a child
- Reflective skills
- School-age children
- End-of-Life Care
- Adolescents
- Self-care
- Disenfranchised grief
- Palliative care
- Complex needs and life-limiting conditions
- Grief 101
- Perinatal loss
- Traumatic bereavement
- Siblings
- Suicide
- Overdose
- Homicide
- Culture
