Parent Resource Center
Below you will find some links to specially curated resources from across the internet specifically selected due to their remarkable and supportive content.
Losing a child is a life-altering and heart-wrenching experience. As a parent, you will experience the full range of emotions: sorrow, anger, doubt, fear, guilt, and more. Please know that you are not alone and that all these emotions are a normal part of the grieving process. In addition to the services we provide parents listed on the right, you may find some of these resources useful:
Following a Death
- Planning a Service (PDF)
- Investigators, Coroners, and Autopsies (PDF)
- Have You Considered?…Planning Your Child’s Service (PDF)
The Grieving Process
- Getting Through Grief: From a Parent’s Point of View (PDF)
- Grieving Alone: A Single Parent’s Experience (PDF)
- Taking Care of Yourself (PDF)
- The Death of a Child, The Grief of the Parents: A Lifetime Journey (PDF)
- Surviving the Death of a Baby (PDF)
- Helping Children Cope with Grief When an Infant Dies (PDF)
- Grieving Children (PDF)
Down the Road
- Subsequent Children (PDF)
- Finding a Counselor (PDF)
More Resources
- MCH SUID/SIDS Gateway (MCH)
- Recommended Readings (PDF)
- Other Grief Resources (PDF)
Online Resources For Parents
The Compassionate Friends
The Compassionate Friends non-profit organization exists to provide friendship, understanding, and hope to those going through the natural grieving process.
Mothers In Support And Sympathy (MISS Foundation)
The MISS Foundation is an international 501(c)3, volunteer-based organization providing C.A.R.E.S. [counseling, advocacy, research, education and support] services to families experiencing the death of a child.
Still Standing Magazine
Still Standing Magazine, LLC, shares stories from around the world of writers surviving the aftermath of loss, infertility – and includes information on how others can help.
Bereaved Parents of the USA
We are the parents whose children have died. We are the siblings whose brothers and sisters no longer walk with us through life. We are the grandparents who have buried grandchildren.
What’s Your Grief?
Our mission is to promote grief education, exploration, and expression in both practical and creative ways.
Open To Hope
Open to Hope is a non-profit with the mission of helping people find hope after loss. We invite you to read, listen and share your stories of hope and compassion.
Still Mothers
Still Mothers is a community and support resource for women who are living a childless life after the death of their only child(ren). We support all mothers who have faced loss due to miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, infant death, as well as any other form of child loss.
PALS, Pregnancy After Loss Support
The MISS Foundation is an international 501(c)3, volunteer-based organization providing C.A.R.E.S. [counseling, advocacy, research, education and support] services to families experiencing the death of a child.
Grieving Dads Project
Grieving Dads Project is a site build by a grieving father and geared for grieving fathers. It’s a great resources specifically designed to speak to men.
Grief Share
GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone.
Care For The Family
Care for the Family is a national charity which aims to promote strong family life and to help those who face family difficulties.
The Lullaby Trust
The Lullaby Trust raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies and offers emotional support for bereaved families