Grief Garden

10/23/2025

The Grief Garden Child Life Practicum application is open for the Summer 2026 practicum opportunity.
Grief Garden accepts 1 student for the position and follows Association of Child Life Professionals application/offer deadlines.
If you have interest in applying for this 120hr pre-internship learning experience please complete the application from our website and submit all application materials to the included email!

Questions? Reach out to us via email at griefgardenne@gmail.com

https://www.griefgardenne.com/about-5

10/21/2025

10/17/2025

Tis' the season to be spooky!
Halloween is great fun, but can also lend itself to some misconceptions about death for kids because of the common visual and story examples of zombies, ghosts, mummys, the grim reaper, or other imaginary characters that either evade or return from the dead.

You can help clear these misconceptions by using concrete language (dead, dying, dead) when referring to death that happens in your life AND by reiterating that these fun characters are just a part of Halloween imagination.

10/16/2025

Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. Siblings can be forgotten grievers when a pregnancy ends or a baby dies, mainly because pregnancy and infant loss is hard to explain; especially when it makes no sense to adults.
Grief Garden is remembering and holding space for these families every day, but especially tonight.

10/09/2025

Art and craft activities are a great way to help kids understand and make meaning from their experiences. Grief Garden uses these activities to in the home setting related to difficult diagnosis or loss.

10/07/2025

September was a great month for Grief Garden!
Have an organization that we should connect with or know a family that could use support? Send them our way via email or phone:

griefgardenne@gmail.com (531)-203-1604

10/02/2025

Grief Garden spent the day at the CHI Health Pregnancy and Infant Loss Conference today! It was a great event for healthcare professionals to learn about community resources available to support families who experience pregnancy and infant loss.

08/30/2025

Holding space and recognition for grievers, of all ages, on today National Grief Awareness Day.

08/15/2025

Grief Garden is excited to announce that Katie has obtained certification as an International Partner of Perinatal Excellence (IPPE-C). This certification demonstrates Katie's commitment to providing critical support to families who have experienced perinatal or infant death.
Katie frequently supports siblings who have experienced the death of a sibling during pregnancy or infancy, meaning that she is intently aware of how important supporting young grievers is, through any type of loss.

To find other providers in your area who have made the commitment to providing exceptional care to families check out https://perinatalexcellence.org/certified/ and
review the providers list.

Congratulations Katie!

08/11/2025

Back to School season means something different for kids grieving the death of a loved one.

-Maybe it means anxiety over activities that include naming family member; do you still list them if they died?
-Maybe it means feeling like the odd man out or that 'everybody' knows something happened.
-Maybe it means that it's hard to be excited when things are just so different

As the area heads back to school in the coming days/weeks, please be thinking of the kids in our community for whom Back to School feels different this year.

08/07/2025

Working with other healthcare professionals in the end of life field is such a privilege.

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