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  • About
    • Contact
  • Programs
    • Our Programs
    • Nights of Support (NOS) at Our Centers
    • Good Grief Schools
      • Good Grief Groups in Schools
      • Parent Education
      • Routes to Resilience (R2R)
      • Professional Development
  • Resources
    • Grief Resources
    • News & Blog
    • Press
    • Newsletters
    • Testimonials
    • Video
  • Get Involved
    • Get Involved
    • Ways To Give
    • Community Fundraisers
    • Partnerships & Sponsors
    • Donate
  • Training
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    • 2025 Good Grief Spring Institute
    • Good Grief Gala 2025
    • 5K Run & 2K Walk (Morristown area)
    • 5K Run & 2K Walk (Princeton area)
    • Children’s Grief Awareness Day
    • DIY Events
    • Past Events
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Good Grief Schools

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We help transform schools into grief-informed spaces where students grow from loss and adversity.

Schools are a critically important environment for children as they learn, grow, and develop as people. They are a vital space for ensuring a child’s emotional, physical, and mental health.

When children experience loss and adversity in their lives, research shows schools are one of the dominant environments where risk factors emerge. These risk factors include higher rates of stress, anxiety, and depression as well as the social isolation students often feel because they see themselves as very different from their peers. This can have long-term effects on the health and well-being of students, often affecting their performance in school and academic prospects.

Good Grief School Programs

Our school-based programs take a comprehensive approach to help children build resilience to overcome loss and adversity in their lives. The programs support the entire school community and help transform schools into grief-informed spaces where students grow from loss and adversity.

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Grief Support Groups

This program supports K-12 students who have experienced the loss of an important person in their life. Students meet in small groups to explore topics including emotional literacy, healthy coping, self-advocacy and peer support.

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Routes to Resilience

This prevention-based social and emotional learning program is for all K-12 students and prepares them to navigate adversity and loss in their lives—today in the future.

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Professional Development

This program equips educators with training and best practices to be able to respond to death or significant loss in the school environment. The goal is to create more compassionate, empathic, and supportive classrooms where students can thrive after loss.

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Parent Education

Through this program, parents and caregivers build an understanding of the critical role they play in helping children overcome loss and adversity and build resilience.

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Resilient Students, Brighter Futures

100%

of teachers surveyed

agreed that they learned new strategies and activities to help assist children and teens coping with loss.

OUR PROGRAMS ARE DESIGNED TO

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Enhance sense of connectedness

2

Infuse teaching of adaptive strategies such as mindfulness, emotion regulation, and healthy coping

3

Increase student self-confidence to work through adversities

4

Increase self-help seeking behaviors among students who are struggling

5

Build shared language and normalize discussions on adversity and loss

Good Grief Schools fills a critical
gap in school curriculums

Approximately 90% of educators have no prior training in helping students work through grief loss and adversity. Our training equips educators to focus on building connections with students by being willing to engage them around difficult topics. We provide educators with concrete tools and strategies they can use to implement lesson plans and support groups, along with tools to measure impact.

Good Grief Schools helps schools create a more supportive and empathic culture in response to loss and adversity in the lives of students. When surrounded by a supportive school community and given the opportunity to learn adaptive life skills, students build resilience and find the courage and strength to see a brighter future for themselves.

“Routes to Resilience not only helped our district fill a gap in our curriculum around important SEL topics but the interactive nature of the lessons allowed our teachers and principals to connect with students on a deeper level. The high level of student engagement and heartfelt participation by our teachers was incredible!”

– Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, Morris School District
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Family Center Locations

38 Elm St, Morristown NJ

5 Mapleton Rd, Princeton, NJ

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