When Our Children Face Losses

Hull Public Schools’ Parent Presentation

When Our Children Face Losses:
Words, Strategies And Wisdom That Promote Resilience

This presentation is for parents, grandparents, guardians, and caregivers
to learn strategies which will help guide their children through the grieving process.

Maria Trozzi, M.Ed.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

6:30 p.m.

Hull High School Auditorium

Whenever bad things happen, it is normal for parents to want to protect their children. It even feels counter-intuitive to want to ‘talk’ about it, especially when we see our children hurting. Whether the issue is a terrifying world event or closer to home, a peer’s unexpected death, a possible betrayal of an adult or a peer, or an inevitable disappointment or personal shortfall, how do parents help their children face these stressful life events? How do you face it as a parent? How do you find language to help your child at any age make sense of it? What words should you avoid? How do you know if your child is struggling?

Join Maria Trozzi, a national expert in the area of children and family bereavement, an author of Talking With Children About Loss, co-founder and former director of the Good Grief Program at Boston Medical Center for nearly thirty years.

Using an interactive format, she will lead parents to support their children as they face the inevitable losses of growing up, find strategies and words that help them master coping skills, and share her twenty plus years of experience and expertise that informs prevention and promotes resilience in our adolescents facing a complicated world.

Please contact Judy Kuehn, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, at 781-925-4400 Ext. 1128 or via email at jkuehn@town.hull.ma.us with any questions.