What is this guide?

Fostering Grief-Ready Workplaces: A Starter Kit for Mental and School Mental Health Leadership aims to provide essential ingredients to guide you and your organization through the basics of supporting a grieving workforce. This starter kit recaps the content covered in the Spring 2021 School Mental Health Grief Readiness Lab pilot and the Fall 2021 Grief Readiness Series, which was open to general and school mental health practitioners.

What’s inside the guide?

• Compilation of content we engaged with during the Spring 2021 Lab and Fall 2021 Series.

• Quotes from participants & learnings from our discussions; participants represented mental health and school mental health practitioners, represented decades of cumulative experience.

• Practical activities and strategies to employ in the workplace or in schools.

• Reflection questions to guide you toward creating your own Grief Readiness Plan or program. These are questions that you can return to again and again, and each time has the potential to spark something new.