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Services in the Chicago Area Death and Dying      Children and Education      Psychoanalysis and Psychology Violence and Trauma When a child's life has been disrupted, the school can provide structure and stability. Services in the Chicago Area Chicago Safe Start works with children who have been exposed to violence, in order to prevent and reduce the impact of violence on children age five and younger. Grandfamilies Program of Chicago provides services to grandparents who are raising grandchildren. Operation Homefront is an organization that supports our troops and helps their families. Under Operation Homefront, Soldiers Project and the Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center offer free counseling services to Servicemembers and their families.

Death and Dying

Association for Death Education and Counseling

Compassionate Friends is an organization for families who have experienced the death of a child. It sponsors support groups.

Growth House, Inc. is a site dealing with issues related to death and dying. A drop-down menu at the top of the home page has a section on Children Dealing with Death.

Rainbows is an organization which provides support groups for children who have lost a parent through death, divorce, etc. The groups are led by trained volunteers.

Children, Education

Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health at Columbia University, provides a wealth of information on children's mental health problems.

Illinois Association of School Social Workers

Psychoanalysis, Psychology

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, including a page on Children and Grief

American Psychoanalytic Association

Chicago Psychoanalytic Society

Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago

Jung Institute of Chicago

Self Psychology involves Heinz Kohut's psychology of the self and contemporary developments.

Violence and Trauma

Chicago Safe Start. Its mission is to prevent and reduce the impact of exposure to violence on children age five and younger.

Heroic Choices (Formerly the Todd M. Beamer Fund). A nonprofit youth services organization that builds resiliency in children who have experienced trauma.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Provides resources for families, professionals, schools and the media.

September 11 Fund -- provides help to the families of those who were killed, the injured, and those displaced from their homes or jobs. It provides financial assistance, counseling, job training, and other services. It also helps small businesses and nonprofits to rebuild. It supports the rescue and recovery efforts by reimbursing nonprofits for the costs they incurred in providing help. 

Windows of Hope  provides help to the families of victims of the World Trade Center tragedy who worked in the food, beverage and hospitality industries.

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Last modified February 20, 2008