LibGuides: Supporting Children Recommended Resources: For Adults

Use this guide to learn more about supporting children, including resources for caregivers, teachers, and children.

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Helping Children When a Family Member or Someone They Know Has Cancer (American Cancer Society)
These webpages offer information on helping children, from infants to teens, understand and cope when someone they love has cancer.
How a Child Understands Cancer (Cancer.Net)
This resource describes what children of different ages are likely to understand and provides tips to help you talk with your children about cancer.
Talking to Kids & Teens About Cancer (Cancer Support Community)
This resource provides information to help you talk with kids and teens when someone they care about has a cancer diagnosis. It includes a video and the Frankly Speaking Guide to talking with children.
Wonders & Worries
Wonders & Worries provides free, professional support for children and teenagers through a parent’s serious illness or injury. Resources include videos and podcasts, article and book recommendations, and a helpline.
The Healing Library
The Healing Library offers free, downloadable kits to assist families after periods of trauma. They aim to help families to build their own journey of healing with the highest quality experiences and materials. Their current kits cover how to talk to children about the death of a loved one, as well as other tough subjects.

MD Anderson Resources

Why MD Anderson (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Learn why MD Anderson is your best hope for cancer care.
KIWI: Kids Inquire, We Inform (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
Kids Inquire, We Inform (KIWI) is a program for patients and caregivers to help children and teens cope with a parent's cancer.

Kid to Kid: Your Parent Has Cancer
This video provides information for children about cancer and answers to common questions kids have about a parent’s diagnosis and treatment.

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Use this guide to learn more about supporting children, including resources for caregivers, teachers, and children.

For Children | Español

For Caregivers and Teachers

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