These resources are available free of charge for all who would like to use them to support grieving children. Below you will find posters and fact sheets, suggestions for bulletin or newsletter announcements, and logos and other graphics. Thank you for your support of grieving children.
"Here for Each Other" Campaign
We are excited to launch our 2024 Children's Grief Awareness Day theme, "Here for Each Other," highlighting the importance of coming together as a community to support those who are grieving.
Experiencing the loss of someone special is overwhelming. Going through the experience alone makes it that much more difficult. Whether we ourselves are grieving, or we know someone else who is going through these tough times, we need to remember that we are —
HERE FOR EACH OTHER!
Sharing our journey brings us together and can help to lighten the load.
This set of three posters reminds us that we are Here For Each Other, in the good times, and in the hard times.
The central poster of three, prominently featuring the theme along with the Children's Grief Awareness Day logo.
The second of the two companion posters with thoughts you might share with a friend who has experienced the death of someone special.
One of two companion posters, filled with a variety of statements that can be used to support someone who has experienced a loss.
Wall of Support and chat bubbles
Write a message in support of those who are grieving or in memory of someone who has died.
Four chat bubbles are on a single 8.5 x 11 sheet so they can be printed more easily.
Participants can write messages of support to children who are grieving, hanging them around the Wall of Support Poster. (The PDF contains the set of four different chat bubbles.)
Logos and social media graphics
Please read and abide by the Logo Use Policy before downloading any of these files.
Children's Grief Awareness Logo (vertical) - PNG
The Children's Grief Awareness Day logo can be used for any activity related to Children's Grief Awareness Day. Use it as widely as possible to raise awareness of the grief of children. Please refer to the logo use policy prior to using.
"HOPE the Butterfly" - PNG
HOPE can be used in conjunction with Children's Grief Awareness Day as well as for any activity, event, or personal message of "hope" for a grieving person or family. Use it as widely as possible to raise awareness. Please refer to the logo use policy prior to using.
Children's Grief Awareness Logo (horizontal) - PNG
The Children's Grief Awareness Day logo can be used for any activity related to Children's Grief Awareness Day. Use it as widely as possible to raise awareness of the grief of children. Please refer to the logo use policy prior to using.
Use this image of the logo as your profile picture on your social networks to show your support for Children's Grief Awareness Day and to let grieving children everywhere know you care.
Show your support of Children's Grief Awareness Day by using this image as your Facebook cover image. Feel free to use other places across the internet also.
PDF resources
This sheet provides space for a name or names of those you wish to "Hold On To HOPE" for, whether in memory of them or in honor.
Get ideas for activities that you and your organization can do for Children’s Grief Awareness Day.
A two-page overview of what Children's Grief Awareness Day is and why such a day is needed, backed with a reminder of the care that must be taken when opening up the topic of grief with those who may have experienced a loss, perhaps many years ago.
Suggestions for how to let others know of your planned activities from early November through Children's Grief Awareness Day. These ideas can be used in printed materials or websites or in social media outlets. The second side has statistics and facts about children and grief.
"Pause" to Grieve Campaign
When someone important to us dies, no matter how much we'd like everything to get back to normal, life doesn't just keep moving along as if nothing happened. It's important to pay attention to what we're experiencing, and to take care of ourselves while we're healing. It's important to PAUSE, to take a break, to stop what we're doing for a moment (or for a longer time).
We need to PAUSE to feel our feelings, and to grieve our loss. We need to PAUSE to bring our person to mind, and to continue that relationship in our hearts. And for those of us who know someone else who is grieving, it's just as important for us to PAUSE our lives for a time in order to support our grieving friend.
This set of three posters is available to remind us to do just that.
Take the time you need to feel your feelings.
Pause your own activities for a little while so you can support a friend who is grieving.
Take a break and remember your person who died.
"Because Grief" Campaign
Many questions arise about feelings and actions that arise after the death of someone important. We wonder "Why?" about many things. This series of six posters illustrates the theme of Children's Grief Awareness Day in 2022, which is that many of the feelings and actions have a similar root cause — they happen Because Grief.
"It's OK To Not Be OK" Campaign
The main poster in the series of six, this poster states the theme of Children's Grief Awareness Day in 2021.
After a death, it's very common to feel fear. And that's OK, as this poster expresses.
Many people feel sadness as part of their grief. This feeling, like any other, is OK, as expressed in this poster.
Continuing the series, this poster lets people know it's not wrong to be happy even after someone special has died.
Anger is also a common reaction after someone important dies. This poster validates anger, like the other feelings in the series.
Sometimes after the death of someone important, it may feel like a betrayal of them to feel hope. But that feeling, like the rest, is OK too.
"Believe There Is HOPE in the World — Be the HOPE" Campaign
The theme of the 2020 Children's Grief Awareness Day campaign in 8.5 x 11.
The same poster in a larger size.