Organizational Bereavement Survey
Beyond bereavement leave: practical support for grieving employees.
The survey findings point to a simple truth: policies matter, but people need guidance, language, training, and support systems when grief enters the workplace. PSCP helps organizations build compassionate, peer-informed responses that leaders and teams can actually use.
Start with what your organization is trying to solve.
Some organizations need a full grief support program. Others need manager training, staff support after a death, a policy review, or a trusted consultant to help think through what comes next.
Understand PSCP
Meet the team, mission, model, and peer grief support approach.
Build capacity
Explore training, consultation, and organizational support options.
Support staff
Find grief support options designed for staff and workplace teams.
Keep learning
Use guides, workshops, trainings, CEs, and the RIVER model.
What the current survey results are showing.
The first phase is exploratory, with seven participating organizations, but the themes are consistent: grief is present at work, leaders want to respond well, and formal benefits alone are not enough.
Grief is present, even when it is not visible.
Most respondents reported that grief is at least somewhat visible at work. Visibility often depends on whether employees feel safe acknowledging loss.
Policies exist, but support gaps remain.
Organizations reported formal supports such as bereavement leave, EAPs, flexible scheduling, mental health benefits, and supervisor support, while still needing practical guidance.
Returning to work is often the hardest part.
Leaders named concentration, workload pressure, communication, manager uncertainty, and coworker discomfort as common challenges after an employee returns.
Managers need support, too.
Respondents wanted practical education that helps supervisors communicate with empathy while maintaining appropriate workplace boundaries.
Build a full grief support program
For organizations ready to develop a more complete response, PSCP can support program design, peer-informed practices, implementation planning, and sustainable systems.
Explore program componentsUse individual services or consultation
When you need focused help, PSCP can consult on policies, language, communication, return-to-work planning, team response, and resource development.
Learn about one-on-one supportTrain leaders and strengthen organizational support
Leadership and organizational training helps managers, HR teams, and workplace leaders respond with clarity, compassion, boundaries, and confidence.
View Organizational SupportOffer staff grief support
For teams affected by death, loss, or ongoing grief exposure, PSCP can provide staff-centered support that honors grief while helping people remain connected and resourced.
Explore Staff Grief SupportKeep exploring the right fit.
Use these pathways to learn more before reaching out. Each link goes to the relevant PSCP page so this landing page stays focused on orientation and next steps.
About peer grief support
Understand PSCP’s peer-based, trauma-informed, nondirective approach to grief support.
About PSCPGrief resources library
Find practical resources and guides grounded in lived experience and compassionate peer support.
Guides libraryLearning Hub
Explore trainings, workshops, free guides, and organizational learning options in one place.
Learning HubPsychoeducational workshops
Offer accessible learning that helps people understand grief and build practical coping tools.
View workshopsContinuing Education
PSCP is a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, and many trainings or workshops offer CEUs.
Explore CE optionsRIVER
Learn PSCP’s foundational peer grief support model: Relate, Invite, Validate, Empower, Reassure.
Explore RIVERParticipate in the next survey.
Additional responses will help PSCP build a clearer picture of what organizations are experiencing and what practical supports leaders need most.
Share your organization’s perspective
If you are involved in HR, people strategy, operations, benefits, employee wellbeing, or organizational development, your response can help shape future findings and resources.
Use the first report to start a conversation
The current report summarizes early findings, key themes, and recommendations around manager training, communication, return-to-work support, peer support, and policy review.