Group to Test Effort to Help Children Who Have Lost Parents

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.