One Week From Today.....

...Thursday, November 21, is Children's Grief Awareness Day.  If nothing else, please wear blue that day in support of Grieving Children everywhere, and tell people why you are doing it.

Now I know that I no doubt talk a lot about the work that is done by the Highmark Caring Place, and perhaps you all get bored hearing me go on about it, but today let someone else talk about it, and to do that, I will refer you to this article that appeared in the "North" section of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  I will let the young lady highlighted in the story tell you what REALLY happens at the Highmark Caring Place.

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/north/2013/11/14/Teen-s-cause-grieving-children-1/stories/201311140275

An Invitation

National Children's Grief Awareness Day will be observed on Thursday, November 21.  To observe this day, the Highmark Caring Place in Warrendale, PA, where both Marilyn and I volunteer, will be having an Open House at its facility.  All details of the Open House are in the invitation above.

I hope that you will consider attending this event and seeing the remarkable job that the Caring Place does for grieving children and their families.

Thanks for considering this and I hope to see some of you there.

Children's Grief Awareness Day - November 15

One week from today, Thursday, November 15, is Children's Grief Awareness Day.  

The simplest way to observe this day is to wear blue and to let people know that you are wearing blue to show your support for grieving children.

I would also urge you to visit the Caring Place's Children's Grief Awareness Day website to learn more about how you can observe this day.

http://www.childrensgriefawarenessday.org/cgad/index.shtml

Also, if you are on Facebook, visit the page for Children's Grief Awareness Day and join in the discussion about observing this day:

 https://www.facebook.com/ChildrensGriefAwarenessDay

Highmark Caring Place locations are planning special events on November 15.  You can learn about those events by contacting the Caring Place location nearest you.  Also, many schools are also having events to commemorate the day.  Perhaps, your school is one of them.

Allow me to share a  passage from the website:

Children's Grief Awareness Day is an opportunity for all of us to raise awareness of the painful impact that the death of a loved one has in the life of a child. An opportunity for all of us to recognize and support the millions of grieving children across the nation — the thousands of grieving children right in our own communities — the grieving children we know and see in our daily lives.

Children's Grief Awareness Day is an opportunity to make sure that grieving children receive the support they need.

Children's Grief Awareness Day

Before they graduate from high school, one in twenty children in America will experience the death of a parent.  This number becomes even higher when you consider those children who will also experience the loss of brother or sister, close grandparent, aunt or uncle.  Such children can feel this loss forever.  They go back to school, they might resume their activities, and look "normal", but the grief that they feel is still inside them, and can only intensify at this time of the year as the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach.

National Children's Grief Awareness Day was instituted in 2008 to raise awareness of and show support for grieving children.  This day is observed on the third Thursday in November each year.  In 2012, the Children's Grief Awareness Day will be four weeks from today, Thursday, November 15.  

Please go to the following site to see what YOU can do to observe Children's Grief Awareness Day in your school, church, social club, or just among your circle of friends.

http://www.highmarkcaringplace.com/cp2/cgad/index.shtml

Please also visit the Highmark Caring Place website - www.highmarkcaringplace.com - to learn more about the work that this organization does to help grieving children and their families.

You can make a difference in the life of a grieving child.