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Tuesday’s Children Mentors Make a Difference A Productive and Positive Force in the Life of a Child Impacted by Loss. Written by Molly Lieberman, LMSW, Tuesday’s Children Junior Board and Military Mentoring Advisory Board Member
AFTER AN ACT OF TERRORISM, or when a family loses someone in
The organization uses a long-term-healing model to assist children,
the military, the surviving family members often receive a considerable
parents and communities in their efforts to move forward in the
amount of assistance for their immediate needs. While this is certainly
post-loss journey. These services include trauma and grief support,
important, of equal priority is long-term support. These families have
mental health programs, skills building workshops, career resources,
needs and obstacles, a year, two years and many years later that
youth leadership development, community and family events, health
need to be addressed. Long-term support focuses on the needs that
and wellness programs, adult and family initiatives and volunteerism
arise after traumatic loss becomes a reality and when the focus shifts
opportunities. These programs were developed in an effort to help
from grief to resilience and moving forward. This is where Tuesday’s
those who were affected by traumatic loss reach their full potential
Children comes in.
and move forward with their lives.
Tuesday’s Children was founded to address these long-term needs
One of the cornerstones of Tuesday’s Children is mentoring the
and is the leading nonprofit providing resilience-based support to
children of families who have suffered a loss and providing them with
communities and people impacted by terrorism and traumatic loss.
an adult role model who is in their corner. A mentor is not a parent
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