source: Children's Bereavement Network

published: November 2024

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This year, the Week's theme is #BuildingHope.

We know that so many of you work with children and young people and their families, building their resilience, acknowledging their feelings and offering strategies and tools to support them with their bereavement. This year, we want to highlight and amplify that work, so we are suggesting that services engage with our #BuildingHope Box activity.

You can find out more about our #BuildingHope Box activity below. We believe that this will be an extension of the work that you already do. It might be that you already have something very similar to this as part of your regular activities. If so, tell us! We want to see examples of your work and the #BuildingHope Boxes that children and young people make or develop across social media during the Week. 

Get ready to share your activities using the following tags from 18 November 2024:

#CGAW24 and #BuildingHope.

Our good friends at Papyrus, who work to support young people who may be feeling suicidal, have developed both a HopeBox and a HopeBook. Both ideas are brilliant ways of #BuildingHope, and can be used as a model for your own session to support bereaved children and young people.

We are asking all settings to consider constructing your own #BuildingHope box, full of things that are useful to you: your bereavement policy, your bereavement support plans for children and young people, resources for these children and young people, information about local and national support services for all ages.

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