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Use this guide to learn more about grief and coping with loss of a loved one.

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Getting Started

Grief, Bereavement, and Loss (National Cancer Institute)
This site provides current information about how individuals cope with grief, bereavement, and mourning. It is meant to inform and help patients, families, and caregivers.
Grief and Bereavement (American Cancer Society)
This site describes what grief, mourning, and bereavement are and provides information on grieving process and stages of grief.
Bereavement (Cancer Support Community)
This link provides information about facing a loss and normal aspects of grief, mourning and bereavement.
Helping Children When a Family Member Has Cancer: When a Child Has Lost a Parent (American Cancer Society)
This link helps you get started looking into deeper and ongoing resources to help a child who has lost a parent.

Grieving Alone and Together: Responding to the Loss of Your Loved One during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Sara Murphy
Publication Date: 2020
This booklet adresses the challenges of grieving the death of a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bereavement Resource Manual by Full Circle
Publication Date: 2019
This booklet brings together all of the available local resources as well as age-appropriate grief education.

MD Anderson Resources

Why MD Anderson
At MD Anderson, we understand how hard it can be to choose a hospital for cancer treatment. Here are some of the reasons why MD Anderson is your best hope for cancer care.
Dealing with Loss (MD Anderson)
At MD Anderson, Social Work Counselors can provide short-term counseling free of charge to patients and caregivers.

Coping With Grief by MD Anderson
Publication Date: 2020
This booklet offers information about grief and grieving process to help families and friends who are going through grief due to the loss of a loved one.

Support Groups For Adults

Bereavement Support (Houston Hospice)
The Houston Hospice site offers grief support groups.
Find a GriefShare group meeting near you (Grief Share)
This link offers you help and support through grieving process.
Find Support (The Compassionate Friends)
This link provides resources and options to reach out to the other moms and dads who are ready to listen, share and offer you the emotional support you need for healing to begin. Just reach out, there’s a hand waiting.
Connect (COVID Grief Network)
This website offers help and support to young adults. Are you in your 20s or 30s? Have you lost someone close to COVID-19? Or is someone you love ill with COVID-19? Get connected to a community of young adults who know what it’s like, and free one-on-one support from a volunteer grief worker.

Support Groups For Children

Find Support (National Alliance for Grieving Children)
This link lists grief support service providers who serve children, teens and their families.
Support in A Safe Place (The Dougy Center, The National Center for Grieving Children and Families)
This link provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families grieving a death can share their experiences.
Grief Support (Bo's Place)
This website offers information and grief resources via phone, online and in-person support groups for bereaved children, mothers, families and adults in both English and Spanish.