National Children's Grief Awareness Day

We support Healing house and National Children Grief Awareness Day. No child should grieve alone!

WE at TK Insurance want to raise awareness for National Children's Grief Awareness Day. As a member of the board for the fantastic organization Healing House.

We want everyone to know that the mission of Healing House is to provide support and education for grieving children their caregivers and the Acadiana community.

Join Healing House!

Join Healing House for the 3rd Annual Blue Butterfly Ball on Sunday November 17th from 11:30- 1:30 pm at River Oaks.

Guests will be transported into the Fairy Tale World of Royalty for a Magical Afternoon!

Music, dancing, children’s activities, train rides, special magical guests, and a buffet-style lunch inspired by your child’s favorite characters! Purchase your tickets here!

What is the National Children’s Grief Awareness Day?

National Children’s Grief Awareness Day is observed every year on the Thursday before Thanksgiving. This time of year is a particularly appropriate time to support grieving children because the holiday season is often an especially difficult time after a death.

Children’s Grief Awareness Day seeks to bring attention to the fact that often support can make all the difference in the life of a grieving child.

This year Children’s Grief Awareness Day will be observed on Thursday, November 15, 2012. This day provides us the opportunity to recognize and support the millions of grieving children across the nation- the thousands of grieving children in our own communities- and the grieving children we know and see in our daily lives.

Before they graduate from high school, one child out of every 20 will have a parent die-and that number doesn’t include those who experience the death of a brother or sister, a close grandparent, aunt or uncle, or a friend.

Children who have had someone die,-especially a close family member, can feel the loss forever. They eventually go back to school. They might pick some activities back up. They certainly look “normal”…and yet there’s still that hole inside.

Why should we raise awareness for grieving kids and teens?

• There are more grieving children than most of us realize, 1.5 million children are living in a single-family household because of the death of one parent.
  
  
• Most people don’t realize that it takes most children much longer to deal with their grief than we expect and that the amount of inner turmoil, invisible to most, is much more intense than we have any idea.
  
  
• We raise awareness so that people will realize that even if there aren’t any outward signs of inner turmoil, those storms can still be raging inside a grieving child’s heart.
  
  
• We raise awareness so that people will understand that a grieving child can’t just “get over it”- not in any set time period and not by any act of their own will-and that there’s no reason that they should just “get over it”.
  
  
• We raise awareness in order to help people learn ways they might help a grieving child they happen to know, now or in the future.

Healing House

Healing House; Hope for Grieving Children, located at 160 South Beadle Road in Lafayette, provides grief support groups for children age 4-18 that have experienced the death of a parent or a sibling.

Healing House is the only non-profit children’s grief center within a 150 mile radius.

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By associating with other children who are going through a similar experience the children are able to feel understood and accepted. 

Healing House currently offers 12 grief support groups serving over 200 children and families in Acadiana. All services offered at Healing House are run by trained volunteers, and are free of charge for the families in our area.

In recent years, Healing House has expanded services to include a Tragedy Response Team which provides grief support and education in the occurrence of a common death among area schools, teams, or organizations.

We also offer a Resource Library, open to the public, containing books and information on differing types of grief and loss issues.