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Help, Health, Healing & Hope. Grieving During Transitional Years: Interventions and Healing for Children & Teens presented by Sarah See, MS, LPC, CTP and Lauri Yersavich, MS, LSW, CTP.

This IN-PERSON training will take place on November 14, 2025 from 10:00 am until 1:30 pm in the first floor conference rooms at the Juvenile Court. Lunch will be provided.

While grief is a normal reaction to death, youth grieve differently than older adults. The loss of a significant person impacts all facets of their lives, including feelings, reactions, behaviors, relationships, school, work, etc. Adolescents and young adults are uniquely facing several milestones that can impact their developmental trajectory. This session will educate and help equip participants to understand theoretical frameworks of grief; understand and assess grief’s impact on children and youth and provide hands-on intervention including grief education, expressive modalities, story sharing, continuing bonds, building coping skills and fostering community.

Sarah See MS, LPC, CTP
Sarah See MS, LPC, CTP, is with OhioHealth Community Grief Services and has her undergraduate degree in family studies with a concentration in child life and her master’s degree in community mental health counseling. See’s passion for bereavement work started while working as a certified child life specialist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital for 11 years, providing support in the Pediatric Intensive Care and Burn/Trauma Units. Within this role, she provided education about developmentally appropriate understanding of death, provided support surrounding sharing the difficult news of a death to siblings and/or peers, and engaged patients and their families in memory-making activities. For the past five years, See has been a child and adolescent bereavement counselor with the School Outreach Program at OhioHealth. Within this role, See provides individual and group counseling to children, teens and young adults,; grief education to parents and professionals,; and grief support and crisis response following a death within a school community

Lauri Yersavich, MS, LSW, CTP
Lauri Yersavich, MS, LSW, CTP, is a licensed social worker and certified trauma professional. She has an undergraduate degree in psychology and a master’s degree in community mental health counseling. She has been the team lead and coordinator of the OhioHealth school-based grief support program and a grief counselor with the organization since 2002. Yersavich is a member of the Franklin County Suicide Prevention Coalition. Yersavich provides individual and group grief counseling to children, teens, and young adults in school and office-based settings in Central Ohio. She provides education to school counselors, social workers, parents, and community providers related to the impact of grief, trauma, and loss on young people. Yersavich works with area school districts to develop and/or update their crisis response plans. The OhioHealth school-based program also provides on-site grief support and crisis response following a death within a school community, including suicide postvention.