For Peer Grief Helpers
- Reflect on what makes peer grief support helpful — and on how your own experience as a bereaved person has prepared you to help others.
- Review the information from SADOD on how to offer help to a bereaved adult, and learn some of the common characteristics of this kind of grief
- Consider using the Structure of Peer Grief Support Groups guidelines from the SADOD facilitator workshop)
- Check out the videos below. They include several of SADOD’s mini-webinars for peer grief support group facilitators, which cover a number of practical topics.
- Study principles and practices such as those found in Lifeline Australia’s practice handbook for support group facilitation. (It focuses on peer support for people bereaved by suicide, but it is a practical and comprehensive guide whose lessons could apply to any grief support group.)
- Think about SAMHSA’s Working Definition of Recovery. (It offers 10 guiding principles of recovery, generally focused on mental-health and substance-use issues, which could provide a framework to guide peer grief support.)
Explore
Walking with the Bereaved: Tools for Others to Help the Bereaved
The Grief Toolbox
Providing Good Grief Support for Close Friends
Center Complicated Grief
How to Support Someone Who Lost a Loved One to Drugs
Very Well Mind
The Grief of an Overdose Death — and How You Can Support Someone Grieving a Substance Use Loss
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
Helping Someone Who Is Grieving
HelpGuide
Videos
Strong Emotions During a Peer Grief Support Group
How Guidelines Help Peer Grief Support Group Facilitators
Marketing Your Peer Grief Support Group
Five Practices: How to Provide Grief Support
Five Practices handout
Five Practices handout
C19 Peer Grief Support
C19 Peer Grief Support Handout
C19 Peer Grief Support
