Children need to know
As part of Children’s Grief Awareness Week (16-23 November), we asked We Hear You’s Chair Of Trustees and Dorothy House Psychological Support Lead, Anne Montague to provide some useful tips for how to support children through grief.
A Grandparent’s Grief
The death of a grandchild is hard to bear. But the death of three and his own wife, seems incomprehensible. Self declared ‘problem solver’ and grandfather Peter Hime, shares his perspectives on making death a part of life for children and how to support a family through the impossible.
From the mouths of babes…
19 year-old Jess’s Mum died in May 2021. In this honest and disarming interview Jess shares her experience of death, grief and bereavement and its catastrophic impact on her academic career and personal life.
Supporting teens through bereavement
It’s tough being a teenager, especially in today’s world. It becomes immeasurably harder when you’re a teenager who is losing, or has lost a parent. Anne Montague, Trustee for We Hear You, discusses how to support teens through grief.
In conversation with Sir Al
From losing his father aged ten, to his time as England’s first Children’s Commissioner, the plight of hidden mourners and the role religions could play in destigmatising death - Sir Al Aynsley Green makes a passionate plea for change.