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Chicago Safe Start works with children who have been exposed to violence, in order to prevent and reduce the impact of violence on children age five and younger.
Gilda's Club Chicago is a free support community for adults and children whose lives have been touched by cancer, and their family and friends.
Grandfamilies Program of Chicago provides services to grandparents who are raising grandchildren.
Operation Homefront is an organization that supports our troops and helps their families.
Association for Death Education and Counseling
Compassionate Friends is an organization for families who have experienced the death of a child. It sponsors support groups.
Dougy Center, in Portland, Oregon, provides peer support groups for children, teens, young adults and their families who are grieving a death. It also offers workshops and training sessions on helping grieving children. The Center Locator is a nationwide and international directory of programs that serve grieving children, teens and their families.
Growth House, Inc. is a site dealing with issues related to death and dying.
Rainbows is an organization which provides support groups for children who have lost a parent through death, divorce, etc. The groups are led by trained volunteers.
Children, Education
Illinois Association of School Social Workers
Zero to Three, the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. See especially Military Family Projects.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, including a page on Children and Grief
American Psychoanalytic Association
Chicago Psychoanalytic Society
Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago
Jung Institute of Chicago
Self Psychology involves Heinz Kohut's psychology of the self and contemporary developments.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. There is an Illinois chapter. See Illinois resources and referrals (support groups and services for survivors of suicide).
Chicago Safe Start. Its mission is to prevent and reduce the impact of exposure to violence on children age five and younger.
Heroic Choices (Formerly the Todd M. Beamer Fund). A nonprofit youth services organization that builds resiliency in children who have experienced trauma.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Provides resources for families, professionals, schools and the media.
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Last modified September 20, 2011
