NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ASSISTANCE®
Working with Grieving Children
After Violent Death:
A Guidebook for Crime Victim
Assistance Professionals

Marlene A. Young, Ph.D., J.D.
Executive Director
National Organization for Victim Assistance
Prepared August, 1996
Under Cooperative Agreement
Number 95-VF-GX-K001, for
United States Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Office for Victims of Crime

Working with Grieving Children After Violent Death:

A Guidebook for Crime Victim Assistance Professionals

Table of Contents

Jim was twelve years old and Terry was nine when their single-parent mother was shot and killed on the way home from work.

Shelley was eight years old and Bobby was two when their mother was shot and killed by their father before he killed himself.

Vanessa was fourteen when she was stabbed and killed by an older teenage boy in her school yard. Her friends were witnesses.

Kenny was six when his older brother Mason was killed along with three other kids in a drunk driving crash. Time stopped for them all when violent death tore their young lives apart in a pain that will live forever.

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This document was last updated on April 19, 2001