As part of an ongoing partnership, The National Hospice Cooperative (NHC) has generously offered the Children and Youth Artists’ Grief Deck a matching donation up to $5000. With this generous match, we can complete the digitization and translation of the entire youth edition in order to make this resource freely available and online–in both English and Spanish–to young people impacted by grief, loss and isolation during and after the pandemic.

Artists’ Literacies Institute seeks to raise the full $10,000 and we need your help to continue to make that happen!

WITH YOUR SUPPORT WE WILL BE ABLE TO:

+Provide free digital access to the deck to young people on www.griefdeck.com

+Translate and digitize the deck into Spanish to help reach a wider population of young people.

+Renew our initiative to bring the Children and Youth Artists’ Grief Deck to school districts around the country where access to youth specific grief services may be less readily available.

Help us raise $5000 to match the generous donation of the National Hospice Cooperative and bring the Children and Youth Artists’ Grief Deck to young people around the globe.

A donation of any size goes a long way towards helping us reach our goal. If you are unable to give a financial gift, please help us spread the word! You can share our campaign with this link and spread the word on social media here!

MORE ABOUT THE CHILDREN AND YOUTH ARTISTS’ GRIEF DECK:

Humans process loss through grief, and humans ordinarily grieve in community. Because the pandemic affected our ability to come together to move through loss, we developed the first Artists’ Grief Deck.

Over 2 years into the pandemic, evidence is mounting that the biggest burden of grief is being carried by the youngest generations–children and young people who have not only lost loved ones, but their whole ‘presumptive normal’: birthday parties, graduations, social gatherings, school routines, sporting events, and so much more.

The impacts of the pandemic will have a lasting imprint on young people across the country. A recent NY Times Article articulates how two decades of reading and math progress have been erased, let alone the great losses of loved ones, regularity and stability many young people continue to encounter. The impacts are so far-reaching that organizations like Hidden Pain have documented the stories of countless young people affected by this grief epidemic (please visit them for more resources).

This is why we collaborated with the National Hospice Cooperative, Experience Camps, the Boys Clubs of New York, and 58 artists and writers between the ages of 6-26 to develop the Children and Youth Artists’ Grief Deck, a unique toolkit that leverages artists’ ways of knowing to enable the consideration and processing of loss for the young.

Help us continue this work to support more young people as they process and rebuild.

Help support the Children and Youth Artists' Grief Deck!

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Help support the Children and Youth Artists' Grief Deck!

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