Navigating Grief and Loss with Young People

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Mental Health Basics

Youth workers often encounter the challenging task of helping young people navigate grief, which can be an emotionally and mentally complex experience.
You need knowledge and skills to create a safe and supportive environment for grieving youth and young adults to help them process their emotions and promote healing.
Join us to explore age-appropriate grief interventions, communication strategies, and tools to address various types of loss. You’ll be able to guide young people through their grief journeys with hope and strength when they need it most.

Your Learning Objectives

Gain an understanding of how youth and young adults grieve
Explore misconceptions and facts around grief
Be able to identify typical grief reactions and how to respond or intervene as needed
Recognize the difference between what grieving young people need and what they don’t need
Learn about questions you can ask a grieving person to determine a compassionate transition back to school or work

Your Course Details

Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Lee Wilcox, FRSA, has an extensive background in chronic illness, palliative care, crisis intervention, and end-of-life counseling. For the past 5 years, she served as a director of clinical practice at Lines For Life, Oregon's 988/National Suicide Prevention Lifeline headquarters. Lee was inducted into the Royal Society of Arts (London) in 2020 for her work in community health and as the founder of World Mind, a global mental health focus group.