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Express Yourself with Elmo and Jesse! is a digital interactive game that encourages expressing emotions through creativity.
On Belay brings together youth who have a loved one with cancer in treatment, in remission, or who have lost a loved one to cancer. Through adventure programs throughout New England, On Belay provides children with a supportive community of kids who understand, the opportunity to uncover one’s inner resilience, and a fun day about them and not cancer.
While grief is an integral part of the human experience, LGBTQ+ youth and adults often navigate additional layers of emotional complexity due to societal stigma, discrimination, and the struggle for acceptance in a heteronormative world. The loss of loved ones or mentors, facing rejection from family or society, and the trauma of hate crimes are just a few examples of the grief experiences that can be amplified for LGBTQ+ community members. In this article we delve into the additional layers of disenfranchised, compounded, and collective grief often experienced by LGBTQ+ youth and communities. Understanding and acknowledging these complex facets of grief are essential in fostering compassionate and queer affirming spaces.