For friends and family on bereavement
- Gather My Crew - A free online platform to help coordinate and roster practical support for Australians doing it tough.
- Grief: How to Support the Bereaved - Useful advice from the BetterHealth Channel.
- Helping Someone Who’s Grieving: Help Guide - Simple tips and advice from one of the world’s top mental health websites.
- MyGrief App - This free app from the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement includes information on how to support others who are grieving. The MyGrief App is available for both the Apple and Android smartphone platforms.
- Supporting Someone Who is Grieving - Information and videos on grief from Marie Curie, the UK’s leading end of life care charity.
- Supporting the Bereaved - Advice on what to do (and what to avoid doing) when someone experiences a bereavement by Grieflink.
- Understanding Grief: A Guide for Family and Friends when Someone has Died from Cancer - A resource from Cancer Council Australia.
- When Someone Dies in Residential Aged Care – Grief and Loss for Families (PDF 5.3MB) - SA Health funded booklet explaining loss and grief for families over the journey from entry into aged care through to the end of life.
Support for specific populations
- Loss, Grief and Mourning: Talking End of Life with People with Intellectual Disability - A collection of grief resources compiled by Talking End of Life (2018) for anyone supporting a person with an intellectual disability.
- Sad News, Sorry Business: Guidelines for Caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People through Death and Dying (PDF 456KB) - A resource developed by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Capability team, Queensland Health.
- The Grief of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Australia’s First Peoples – A resource from Grieflink.
- Trauma and Loss: Guidelines for Providing Mental Health First Aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Person - A general set of recommendations on how to help an Aboriginal person who has experienced trauma or loss, either recently or in the past. Developed by the Aboriginal Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program.
Supporting bereaved children
- Activities For Grieving Children: Feel the Magic- Easy-to-read fact sheets, connection activities for families, and book and movie suggestions to help children deal with loss of a loved one.
- Information on Grief and Loss - Describes how children at different developmental stages experience and express grief with advice on how best to provide support. Created by the Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network.
- Supporting a Child through Grief and Loss - Information from the Kids Helpline on helping young children through loss. Also provides contact details for free online or phone support for children.
- Understanding Grief and Loss for Friends and Family - Information on grief and young people from Headspace, Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation. Also provides links to sources of face-to-face, telephone and online help.
- When Someone Dies. Helping Children Cope - Information relevant to helping children aged 3 to 8 years by ‘raisingchildren.net.au - The Australian Parenting website’.