FAQs
Peer Healing is the name of the curriculum, but it stands for much more than that. It represents the idea that to grieve after a loss, teens can look to their peers who have also experienced loss for community, for understanding, because their peers truly understand what it’s like to lose a loved one while also experiencing all of the emotions and uncertainty that are involved in adolescence.
Peer Healing is a resource for grieving teens. As a curriculum with ten sessions, it serves to guide and assist teens as they address their grief within a community. Grieving is an isolating experience, and as a teen, mourning the loss of someone is made even more difficult when it seems like those around you do not understand you. So, while Peer Healing is, in actuality, a curriculum, it is more than that. It is a supportive haven, a space where bereaved teens will be heard and will learn how to communicate their needs.
Peer Healing’s goal is to provide a safe, understanding, and supportive community for grieving teens. It was developed with the intention of establishing a mental health resource for grieving teens, one which was modernized for today’s teens and understood their schedules, desires, thoughts, emotions, and communication skills. At the root of Peer Healing is the mission to support bereaved teens and help them through their grieving journeys.
Peer Healing offers teens the opportunity to learn more about how they can communicate their needs as they grieve. Each session focuses on a different topic, and the community-based, peer-led structure strives to ensure that each bereaved teen is getting the support they need as they mourn. With the curriculum, teens can become engaged with other bereaved teens, and together, along with an Adult Support, these teens can empathize with each other and help each other process their grief. Peer Healing can also be integrated into different bereavement centers and it is our hope that it will be, so that grieving teens around the world have this resource to access the support they need.
There are plenty of ways to get involved with Peer Healing. Firstly, you can learn more about the curriculum and even get access to the Teen Facilitator and Adult Support training guides. You can also write for Peer Healing, by sending in a work to be featured on the website by visiting the “Submit a Story” section on the “Get Involved” page. Another option is to donate to the NACG, with a link and information about the organization available in the “Donate” section of the “Get Involved” page. And of course, to contact Peer Healing with any inquiries, you can visit the “Contact Us” page and fill out a contact form. After doing so, you can expect a response within a week.
Yes, you can! To submit a piece of work to be featured on the website, visit the “Submit a Story” section on the “Get Involved” page.
To learn what it means to be a Teen Facilitator or Adult Support, please visit the “Structure” page under the “Curriculum” tab. Here, you can read descriptions about the ten sessions of the curriculum, as well as a brief synopsis of what a Teen Facilitator and Adult Support do to support bereaved teens. If you have done so, and have more questions, please fill out a form on the “Contact Us’ page, and we will be in touch with next steps.
To learn more about Peer Healing, visit the “Curriculum” tab to learn about how it was developed and the structure of the curriculum. If you have done so already, and want to move forward as a bereavement center that will incorporate Peer Healing, please fill out a form on the “Contact Us’ page, and we will be in touch with next steps.
If you are a grieving adolescent, or are looking to find more resources for one, you can visit the National Alliance for Children’s Grief at their website, www.childrengrieve.org. If you would like to see where Peer Healing is in use, or to find out if it is in use by you, please visit the “Background” page under the “Curriculum” tab. There, you will see a pinpoint showing where the curriculum is used.
You can make a donation by visiting the “Donate” section featured on the “Get Involved” page. This section will direct you to the website of the National Alliance for Children’s Grief. The NACG’s mission of supporting children as they grieve and raising awareness of child bereavement is one that we are passionate about, and we want to share the organization with grieving peers.
Yes, you can! You can find us on Instagram under the username PeerHealing, or on Facebook at Peer Healing. For a quick and efficient direction to these accounts, scroll to the bottom of our webpage and click on the social media icons!
You can visit the “Stories” page to read written pieces by other teens who have lost a loved one. You can also visit the SLAP’D Stories Instagram, as linked on that page to look at more stories from bereaved teens. If you are looking for an organization that can help provide resources and put you in contact with bereavement centers or professionals, reach out to the National Alliance for Children’s Grief at their website www.childrengrieve.org.
For any questions, you can reach out to Peer Healing by visiting the “Contact Us” page. There, you can fill out a contact form, along with a message to get in touch, and we will respond within a week!
To contact Peer Healing about any opportunities, please visit the “Contact Us” page, where you can fill out a contact form and include a message with what you are interested in doing. You can expect a response within a week.
To learn more about Peer Healing, you can visit the “About” tab, where the History and Team of Peer Healing is shown. You might also turn to the “Curriculum” tab, where you can read about the process of developing Peer Healing, and the structure of the curriculum as it exists. If you have any other inquiries, feel free to contact Peer Healing at the “Contact Us” tab.
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