Group to Test Effort to Help Children Who Have Lost Parents

News June 15, 2023 at 10:18 AM
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The Children's Collaborative for Healing and Support has come up with strategies for overcoming two major obstacles to modern efforts to help children: Using a legal method to find the children and communicating with the children's remaining parents or guardians without violating privacy laws.

The group will work with a government entity to find children who may have been affected by the loss of a parent by sifting through state death records and state birth records.

The group will then get around obstacles to communicating with children directly by having a school district put information about the support services connector program in children's back-to-school form packets.

Organizers believe that many children in Utah in particular could use the program's resources: They cite estimates that 63,000 children in the state, or 1 in 15 of the children in the state, will experience the death of a parent or sibling before they reach age 18.

The New York Life Foundation gave the group $1 million to support the effort. The foundation says its support for the program is an extension of its focus on supporting bereaved children.

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