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The Bereavement Program issues a seasonal newsletter. Please see a sample of past issues below.

  • November 2024 issue: The winter newsletter includes a recap of our Keeping Connections Conference in November, and shares announcements about Children’s and Teens’ Grief Awareness Month in November and Worldwide Candle Lighting Day in December.
  • September 2024 issue: This marks the one-year anniversary of the bereavement newsletter and highlights our fall family bereavement event, Keeping Connections, as well as a Boston Children's bereaved family, Sarah, John, and Emma, who attended Keeping Connections for the first time in 2023 after the death of their daughter and twin sister, Molly.
  • July 2024 issue: In honor of Bereaved Parents Awareness Month, our summer newsletter highlights Boston Children's bereaved parent Holleigh Tlapa, who writes and recites a unique poem every year at our annual Boston Children’s Hospital Memorial Service in honor of her daughter, Jaiden Lyndi.
  • March 2024 issue: In our first spring newsletter, we share details about our upcoming hospital Memorial Service and summer bereavement camp information to support our young grievers.
  • November 2023 issue: In our inaugural issue, we share an archived interview of Kelly Cervantes, author of the book “Normal Broken,” as featured on the Courageous Parents Network.

If you have thoughts of self-harm, substance misuse, and/or suicide, call 988
or visit https://988lifeline.org/chat/. The Lifeline provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Please call 911 if you’re in immediate danger.