🔵 Creating Brave Spaces for Grieving Youth 🔵

Let’s foster environments where children and teens feel safe to express their emotions without judgment. Make sure that both your words and actions communicate understanding and compassion.

Let`s be the supportive presence that every child and teen deserves.

#ChildrensGriefAwareness #CGAM2024 #childrengrieve #ChildrensGriefAwarenessMonth #GriefSupport #COPE #CGAM #flipthescript

🔵 COPE Recognizes Physical Grief 🔵

This Children`s Grief Awareness Month, lets Flip the Script by recognizing the physical expressions of grief. Movement can help children and teens process grief - it can help them cope, while also helping them connect with their feelings in a healthy way.

Support children and teens in engaging physically, like walking or playing, as part of their healing.

#ChildrensGriefAwarenessMonth #GriefSupport #COPE #CGAM #flipthescript

🔵 Press Pause on Advice 🔵

Let children and teens express grief on their terms. Avoid clichés and fixed ideas about the grieving process. Instead, try responding and asking questions that allow young people to share how they truly feel.

Let`s "Flip the Script" and respect the individuality of grief by providing a brave space for the children and teens in our lives.

#ChildrensGriefAwarenessMonth #GriefSupport #COPE #CGAM #flipthescript

🔵 Show Up for Children and Teens in Grief. Actions Speak Louder! 🔵

Actions often mean more than words. It is crucial to ensure the promises we make are kept so that we can continue reinforcing trust and supporting children and teens through their grief journeys.

This month, let`s "Flip the Script" and provide tangible grief support that young people can rely on.

#ChildrensGriefAwarenessMonth #GriefSupport #COPE #CGAM #flipthescript

Join us for our next grief and healing workshop on Tuesday, November 19 from 7-8pm via Zoom, in partnership with @pinelawnmemorialpark. Facilitated by Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds, When Words Are Not Enough: Creative Responses to Grief will be a discussion about Jane and Jimmy’s grief journey following the death of their son Joshua in 2011.

RSVP via link in bio!

🔵 COPE Supports Grieving Children and Teens. Listen Actively! 🔵

This month, and always, COPE encourages active listening. Make space for the children and teens in your life to express their grief in their own way.

Let`s "Flip the Script" and show empathy by listening without interruptions.

#ChildrensGriefAwarenessMonth #GriefSupport #COPE #CGAM #flipthescript

🔵 COPE Honors Children`s Grief Awareness Month. Be Present! 🔵

Supporting a grieving child or teen is often about simply being there. Consider:
- Sitting with them, letting silence guide the moment
- Joining them in activities they love, showing your supportive presence

This month, let’s “Flip the Script” by focusing on presence over words.

#ChildrensGriefAwarenessMonth #GriefSupport #COPE #CGAM #FlipTheScript

4 DAYS LEFT!! ✨

We will be at a new for us location for starting and returning:
Five Ocean
5 New York Ave Long Beach, NY 11561

Note: For those who have joined in past years, we will not be meeting or using the Laurelton Boulevard area this year as we have in the past

On-site registration opens at 10AM Sunday at Five Ocean. The walk begins at 10:30AM on the boardwalk nearby. Following the walk, join us back at Five Ocean for brunch. The $35 registration fee includes participation in walk, a T-shirt, a bracelet, coffee before, and food & non-alcoholic beverages after.

See you Sunday! Registration link in bio.