Life Connection of Ohio offers support to every donor family after donation. Many of our families have found the resources listed below to be helpful. Please be aware that organizations and groups can change frequently. You may contact Life Connection of Ohio’s family aftercare coordinators at [email protected] any time for additional support and resources. 

Local organizations that typically offer bereavement support

• Funeral home aftercare support
• Hospice
• Hospitals
• Mental health or social service agencies
• Pastoral counseling centers
• Religious organizations/churches
• YMCA

Children’s grief and bereavement books

• Away: A Children’s Book of Loss by WP Osborne
• Deconstruction/Reconstruction: A Grief Journal for Teens by The Dougy Center
• Grief is a Mess by Jackie Schuld
• I Miss You: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas
• I Wonder What You Do on Your First Day in Heaven by Phoebe Welsh
• Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
• The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages by Leo Buscaglia
• The Healing Book: Facing the Death, and Celebrating the Life, of Someone you Love by Ellen Sabin
• The Next Place by Warren Hanson
• When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
• Who Will Feed My Goldfish? by Denien Vittorio Wilde 

Adult grief and bereavement books

•  A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss by Jerry Sittser
• A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
• A Guide for the Bereaved Survivor by Robert Baugher
• A Decembered Grief: Living with Loss While Others are Celebrating by Harold Ivan Smith
• Getting to the Other Side of Grief by S. Zonnebelt-Smeengen & R. DeVries
• It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief & Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine
• My Beautiful Broken Shell by Carol Hamblet Adams
• Roses in December: Comfort for the Grieving Heart by Marilyn Willett Henvilin
• Surviving the Loss of a Child: Support for Grieving Parents by Elizabeth B. Brown
• The Gift that Heals by Reg Green
• The Nature of Grief by Rebeca Hauder
• The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green
• The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno

Online bereavement resources

General Grief

• gabbysgriefcenter.org
• griefnet.org
• griefshare.org
• healgrief.org
• modernloss.com
• opentohope.com
• whatsyourgrief.com

Grieving Children

• childrengrieve.org
• dougy.org
• fernside.org
• goodgriefnwo.org
• oaktreecorner.org

Bereaved Parents

• bereavedparentsusa.org
• compassionatefriends.org

Suicide Loss Survivor

• allianceofhope.org
• suicidology.org
• save.org

Widows and Widowers

• widowsconnection.org
• nationalwidowers.org

Hospice

• hospiceofdayton.org
• hospicenwo.org