When you hear about the damage that public health measures necessary to control this pandemic may do to kids, think about how kids can be supported while we control virus transmission. Also think about this kid: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/a-boy-lost-both-parents-to-covid-19-so-his-family-asked-his-community-for-help-celebrating-his-5th-birthday-1.5192565
Also try to imagine how the kids that were thought by this educator are for ever wounded by this pandemic: https://www.cp24.com/news/toronto-school-board-reports-first-known-death-of-staff-member-due-to-covid-19-since-reopening-1.5194300
Think of all the children who knew this coach, and also about his 10 year old son, who has lost his father to this virus. https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/the-kids-believed-in-him-popular-scarborough-coach-dies-due-to-covid-19-1.4892792
Try to imagine growing as this baby, who will never meet their mother because she died of covid after delivery. https://globalnews.ca/news/7554255/nunavut-woman-dies-coronavirus-delivering-baby-winnipeg-hospital/
Give dimensions to the hardship that these two kids are going through after losing their mom to covid. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/09/11/toronto-teen-shared-a-love-of-the-wiggles-with-his-mom-after-she-died-of-covid-19-the-australian-group-reached-out-from-the-other-side-of-the-world-to-let-him-know-they-were-in-his-corner.html
When you think about the hardships that social distance can cause on children, think about what the lost of a father means to this manâs three kids. http://macleans.ca/they-were-loved?obituary=20
The support a grieving child or youth has access to can significantly influence their wellbeing.
Here are some resources to support children who lost loved ones during this pandemic. https://www.childrenandyouthgriefnetwork.com/covid-19/
Here are some resources to support children who lost loved ones during this pandemic. https://www.childrenandyouthgriefnetwork.com/covid-19/