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Support organisations

  • The Compassionate Friends , self-help group for bereaved parents and families (opens in a new tab)
  • National Centre for Childhood Grief, counselling, group programs in-person and online (opens in a new tab)
  • National Association for Loss and Grief, free grief support face to face or via phone (opens in a new tab)
  • Red Nose Australia, 24/7 bereavement support for childhood death (opens in a new tab)
  • Lifeline, 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention (opens in a new tab)
  • Grief Australia, counselling and resources about grief (opens in a new tab)
  • Headspace, mental health services to 12 - 25 year olds (opens in a new tab)
  • Feel the Magic, camps and programs to help grieving kids heal (opens in a new tab)
  • Redkite, information and emotional and financial support to parents who have lost children to cancer (opens in a new tab)
  • Griefline, helpline service providing free counselling support (opens in a new tab)
  • My Grief App Australia (opens in a new tab)

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Bereavement information
  • What happens first
    • Who to notify
    • Death certificate
    • Discussing cause of death
    • Reporting to the Coroner
    • Funeral considerations
  • Grief and family
    • Types of reactions
    • Partners
    • Single parents
    • Siblings and grief
      • Including siblings in the process
      • Grief response by age
      • Signs of distress and how to cope
    • Grandparents
    • Talking to family and friends
  • Adjusting to life after loss
    • Reinvesting in the future
    • Anniversaries and special occasions
    • Going home
  • Support and resources
    • Support links
    • Reading material for all ages
    • Centrelink payments
    • Podcasts
    • Footprints in the sand bereavement service
    • When to seek help
    • Looking after yourself
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Last updated Thursday 27 February 2025

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network acknowledges that our facilities are built on the lands of the Bidjigal, Cammeraygal, Burramattagal, Cabrogal, Wangal, and Woddi Woddi. Our services extend across the lands now known as New South Wales. 

Aboriginal people believe these lands hold the ancestral spirits of those who have come and gone before them.

We acknowledge this is, was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.


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