Grief Camp Offers Support for Children of Deceased Military Personnel

The Seattle Post Intelligencer published an article about a TAPS camp (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors) for children of military personnel who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sixty-two families in Fort Lewis took part in a day-long program that offered bereavement support for both adults and children. Learn more about TAPS and their role in support military families through grief on their website.

HFA's 2008 teleconference and book, Living with Grief: Children and Adolescents, will focus on the experience of grieving children and adolescents and how we can best support them during this time. "Military Children and Grief," written by a TAPS peer mentor, looks at how loss for children in the military community is different.

Published September 23, 2007