The Irish Childhood Bereavement Network
The ICBN is a member organisation. Members share a vision that all children and young people, together with the adults in their lives, can easily access a choice of high quality local and national information, guidance and support to enable them to manage the impact of death on their lives.
Adolescence is a time of great change in the life of a young person. Teenagers struggle with issues of identity and independence...
How children understand and react to grief depends on their age and stage of development. They gradually understand more as they mature...
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Storytelling – starting difficult conversations with children
Friday, May 28th, 2021Talking to children about death is never easy. Using storybooks can be a good way to open these hard conversations and they can also give adults the language to make it easier. Reading stories over and over can really help children understand as they often need things to be repeated, again and again. Here are
Free bereavement resource pack to help those living with loss during COVID-19
Thursday, February 25th, 2021Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) have launched a free bereavement resource pack, ‘Support for Grieving in Exceptional Times’ as COVID-19 deaths in Ireland have exceeded 4,000. It includes all the resources developed as part of IHF’s Care & Inform hub which was specially created to respond to the needs of those facing dying, death and bereavement