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You Want to Become a Grief-Informed Organization
Grief is already part of your organization. This toolkit is a place to begin—with practical tools, real experiences, and ways to build a more grief-informed workplace.
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What Grief-Informed Workplaces Do
Becoming grief-informed is not about having the perfect words or knowing how to fix someone’s grief. It is about creating practices that help people feel acknowledged, supported, and better able to work while carrying grief.
Acknowledge grief
Name loss and make space for it to be recognized.
Prepare leaders
Help supervisors respond with confidence, care, and practical support.
Review policies and practices
Look beyond bereavement leave to what happens before, during, and after a loss.
Create support and connection
Make sure people know where support exists and how to access it.
How Your Organization Can Begin
There is no single right starting point. Choose the option that best fits your organization’s current needs and capacity.
Use the toolkit and reflection to identify a place to begin.
Train staff and supervisors in grief-informed support.
Review policies and workplace practices through a grief-informed lens.
Build peer grief support into the organization.
Work with PSCP through the Becoming a Grief-Informed Organization Pathway.
Destination page to be designedHow Grief-Informed Is Your Organization?
Use this short reflection to notice how your organization acknowledges grief, supports employees and teams, prepares leaders, uses policies and practices, and includes lived experience in decision-making.
This is a reflection and readiness tool—not a validated assessment, score, or certification. The goal is to notice what is already working and identify one useful place to begin.
We bring lived experience and organizational change together.
Peer Support Community Partners develops practical, peer-informed approaches to grief support for individuals, organizations, and communities. Our work brings together lived experience, grief education, peer support, and organizational change so support can move from good intentions to practices people can actually use.
Become a Grief-Informed Organization
This toolkit is a place to begin. The Becoming a Grief-Informed Organization Pathway takes the next step by helping organizations build shared understanding, strengthen practical skills, review policies and practices, and create sustainable approaches to supporting grief in the workplace.