More help for Children’s Grief

November 19, 2024/Products, Regulations/

I was excited on Friday morning when I received some information from a reader of Funeral Director Daily. You see, I started Funeral Director Daily a few years ago with the idea that it could be a network for those working in the death care profession to be able to access thoughts, ideas, and products that could help our care of our living clientele by finding out things we didn’t know about.

Most of my background is in management and operations so at times Funeral Director Daily is somewhat “business and finance” heavy. Although I’ve tried to learn more about technology and other facets of funeral home operations to pass items from those segments on to readers also.

Last Friday morning Funeral Director Daily published this article that dealt with “bereavement” and, in specific, talked about one funeral director’s quest to get “Bereavement” and its effects taught in public schools in Great Britain. The article pointed out that the movement has grown so far that in a couple of weeks Great Britain’s Parliament is going to discuss the subject.

Well, after that article went out one reader sent me an e-mail about efforts in America for the public to gain more knowledge about the issues and dynamics of childrens’ grief through the National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC). Specifically, he mentioned to me the NAGC’s child bereavement Public Service Announcement (PSA) series. You can access that series here.

According to the reader, the NAGC launched its campaign last December — that’s less than one year ago. The same reader told me that the campaign has generated 41,978 television airings which were viewed by over 146 million people. That puts the campaign at a estimated ad value (if paid for) of over $8.7 million. That’s a lot of value and those people who had any part in the success should be thanked by all death care professionals for bringing these grief issues among our nation’s children to light.

You can access the National Alliance for Children’s Grief here.

A New Product for Children’s Grief — That same reader enlightened me to a product called “Pollen”. According to their website, which you can access here, “(Pollen) provides the tools caregivers need to help children work through their trauma”.

According to that website, Pollen was started by thanatologist and grief expert Michaelene Dowers. Dowers is also a ten-year veteran funeral director and her resume indicates that she would be well-versed to have knowledge in grief endeavors.

As a funeral director I would suggest taking a look at the website of Pollen to see if there is some way that they can help you when you deal with those who may suffer from the emotions of grief.

Tom Anderson
Funeral Director Daily

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