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Children’s Grief Awareness Week: 17th – 23rd November 2025

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Thanks to a successful funding bid to the Scottish Government’s Whole Family Wellbeing Programme, the Change, Loss and Bereavement (CLB) Highland Working Group is pleased to announce that all 44 public and 16 school libraries within the High Life Highland network will now have physical copies of ten carefully selected books exploring themes of change, loss, and bereavement. In addition to the physical collection, a digital selection of titles will be available via Borrow Box, thanks to the support of the High Life Highland Libraries team. This blended approach ensures families across Highland can access these important resources in a way that suits their needs.

Stories can play a powerful role in helping children understand and process these experiences. They offer comfort, help normalise grief, and support emotional wellbeing in a way that is both accessible and age appropriate.  We invite you to join members of the working group including Psychological services, Crocus and Archies on the 17th November from 10am – 12pm in Fortrose Community Library, or in the afternoon (2.30pm – 4pm) at Aviemore Library.

We will have copies of the books available on the day to look at and they will be available in libraries from this date.

April is the Month of the Military Child – a time to celebrate together

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Highland has many Children and Young People from Armed Forces Families: Army, RAF, Navy and Marines from Regular, Reserve and Veteran families.

We hope you will join the many Schools and Early Learning Centres across Highland, nationally and internationally by raising awareness and understanding of being a Child or Young Person from an Armed Forces family;  their lived experiences, challenges they may have faced and overcome, the numerous countries they may have lived in, the cultures they may have experienced.

The Month of the Military Child uses the Dandelion as its logo: their seeds are blown and scattered but they land, take root, blossom, and thrive.

Celebrate their Unique Life and Journey

Click Here to access lots of Month of the Military Child resources and materials

Visit and explore Armed Forces Families Highland website – packed full of information for everyone.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week 18th – 24th March 2024

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Neurodiversity refers to the different ways the brain can work and interpret information, people naturally think about things differently but for some people this difference can be attributed to a neurodevelopmental difference such as autism, ADHD, Tourette’s, Developmental Language Disorder and others. Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. It aims to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceived and supported and recognises the many talents and advantages of being neurodivergent.

A child or young person with neurodevelopmental differences is likely to find change, loss and bereavement especially challenging because of their differences in processing information. This could be a big change such as the death of a relative or a much smaller change such as leaving school to return home at the end of the day.

For more information see the Pines website (the Pines is the neurodevelopmental service in Highland), this includes several videos: https://www.thepineshighland.com/dealing-with-change

CLB Training Dates

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We are running our Change, Loss & Bereavement Awareness Raising sessions again next term. If you have a look at our Training Pathway we recommend this (and some other resources and training) as a good foundation to exploring how to support Children and Young People who are experiencing change and loss. You can click on the links within the flyer to take you to the booking pages which will give you more information about the content and who it is suitable for.
Please also see our new poster for professionals working with C&YP experiencing change and loss. This gives an overview of what you can find right here on the CLB website.

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