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Original source: WKAR · April 13, 2016 · Capital Region
A child may have something they want to say about a death and keep it to themselves because a parent is grieving, too. At school, a friend may care deeply but have little idea what the experience feels like. Kelly Koerner discussed those situations on WKAR’s Neighbors in Action in April 2016.
Koerner, then associate program director in Lansing, described what changes when a child meets peers who have also experienced a death. The child can start a conversation with someone who already understands part of the story. The interview introduced listeners to that possibility through the work of the Lansing groups.
For one teenager’s account of the distance between caring friends and shared experience, read Oceana Bailey Remembers Her Father.