A dynamic literature review for #griefliteracy
Grief literacy started with a plea in 2017 for a new way to think about bereavement support as a public health question. This site gathers the existing research references.
The national and regional initiatives
The organizations who are building grief literacy at national and regional levels.
Stories
Latest in Community
The lit review
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Conference references, 9/23/2025
On 9/23/2025, I presented about building a grief literate community to the 31st annual Conference on Ministry to the Aging.
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Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement.
The Dual Process Model provides an evidence-based alternative to the stages of grief model. Created by Stroebe and Schut in 1999, the model identifies actions of grieving people.
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A family in need: toward a grief literate community.
It was Sunday morning, about 8:30. A group of people moved along the front of the hospital, across the crosswalk and into the parking lot. From their slow pace and the clusters and the lingering in groups by two or three cars, I guessed that they were coming from the death I knew had happened…
Grief literacy helps us all. 