Resources

• Journey of HeartsGrief Speaks
• David V. Baldwin, Ph.D.
• Grief and the Family
• Grief & Suicide
• Explaining Suicide to Children
• United in Courage & Grief
• Red Cross. When Bad Things Happen
• Grief Reactions Associated with Accidental or Traumatic Death
• Reactions to Sudden or Traumatic Loss
  Adapted from What to Do When the Police Leave: A Guide for the First Days of Traumatic Loss by Bill Jenkins and Grief Speaks and Journey of Hearts; Graphic from SideOut Foundation.
• Center for Loss & Life Transition: The site features a comprehensive collection of articles and book excerpts focused on grief.
• The Children's Room: The Children's Room creates safe, supportive communities so that no child, teen or family has to grieve alone.
• Grief Recovery Method: The site of the Grief Recovery Institute, the action program for moving beyond loss. This site is beneficial for assisting others who are coping with loss.
• Grief Center (Griefnet): An online community comprising of people coping with grief, death, and significant loss and offers online support groups.
• GriefShare: A site that helps you find local support groups and provides some online support in videos.
• Hold the Door for Others: A site originated by individuals who lost family members suddenly, it provides a comprehensive workbook on living with and growing from experiences of loss and adversity.
• Navigating Grief: A Guidebook for Grief Awareness and Understanding: A guidebook for grief awareness and understanding.
• Motherless Daughters: This site provides resources for women who have lost a mother through death.
• Open to Hope: The Open to Hope Foundation is an online resource center for individuals who have experienced loss.
• "Recover-from-grief.com": A comprehensive site that includes grief coping strategies for a wide variety of losses.

• Caplan, S. and Lang, G. (1995). Grief's courageous journey: A workbook.
• Churn, A. (2003). The end is just the beginning: Lessons in grieving for African-Americans.
• Didion, J. (2005). The year of magical thinking.
• Edelman, H. (1995). Motherless daughters: The legacy of loss.
• Fine, C. (1999). No time to say goodbye: Surviving the suicide of a loved one.
• Gilbert, A. & Baker, C.K. (2006). Always too soon: Voices of support for those who have lost both parents.
• Golden, T. (2000). Swallowed by a Snake: The gift of the masculine side of healing.
• Greene, P. (2003). It must have been moonglow: Reflections on the first years of widowhood.
• Hambrook, D. & Eisenberg, E. (1997). A mother loss workbook: Healing exercises for daughters.
• Harris, M. (1995). The loss that is forever: The lifelong impact of the early death of a mother or father.
• Hooks, B. (1993). Sisters of the yam: Black women and self-recovery.
• James, J., & Cherry, F. (1998). The grief recovery handbook: The action program for moving beyond death, divorce, and other losses.
• Johnson, C. J., & McGee, M. G. (Eds.). (1991). How different religions view death and the afterlife.
• Kubler-Ross, E. & Kessler, D. (2007). On grief and grieving: finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss.
• Kushner, H.S. (1981). When bad things happen to good people.
• Lewis, C. S. (2001). A grief observed. (memoir)
• Oates, J.C. (2011). A widow's story: A memoir.
• Rupp, J. (1988). Praying our goodbyes: Understanding the spirituality of change in our lives.
• Smolin, A. & J. Guinan (1993). Healing after the suicide of a loved one.
• Staudacher, C. (1992). Men & grief.
• Stepanchuk, C., & Wong, C. (1991). Mooncakes and hungry ghosts: Festivals of China.
• Viorst, J. (1986). Necessary losses: The loves, illusions, dependencies, and impossible expectations all have to give up to grow.

• Dearly Loved: Dealing with the Death of a Parent (13 minutes). In this documentary, three young adults of different cultures discuss a parent's death. Each person is at another part of the grieving process. Available from Fanlight Productions.
• A Family Disrupted: Dealing with the Death of a Sibling (22 minutes). Three individuals share their experiences of how they and their loved ones have grieved and mourned. They particularly emphasize dealing with friends and family members whose grieving and mourning differ from their own. Available from Fanlight Productions.
• Grief in America (57 minutes). Seven people from diverse cultural backgrounds discuss their grief and mourning process, integrating ethnic customs for coping with their losses. As well, experts on grieving and mourning discuss coping strategies. Available from Fanlight Productions.
• Phantom Limb (28 minutes). Concerns about the death of the filmmaker's seven-year-old brother. The film is loosely structured according to stages of grief and emphasizes a philosophical view of death. Available on Jay Rosenblatt Films.
• Uncoupled: Dealing with the Death of a Spouse (24 minutes). Four grieving spouses explore helpful and unhelpful coping mechanisms following their loss. Available from Fanlight Productions.

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• Mind Shift
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• Smiling Mind
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MCC offers free counseling and Information to students who have experienced sexual or interpersonal misconduct. This information will be treated privately but reported to the student's Title IX coordinator.

If a student wants complete confidentiality, the student should seek outside help. If you need help and do not speak English as your first language, you can request an interpreter from Jewish Vocational Services.

The Counseling Offices at each campus will see you without an appointment if you have an emergency.

• Metro: 816.468.5463 or MOCSA 816.931.4527
• National: 800.799.SAFE (7233) or National Teen Dating Abuse 866.331.9474
• 800.787.3224 (TTY) Love is Respect 866.331.9474
• National Domestic Violence Hotline or text "LOVEIS" to 77054
• National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.HOPE

• Mattie Rhodes - 1740 Jefferson Street, Kansas City, MO 64108, 816.581.5607
• Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA) - 816.531.0233
• Missouri Coalition against Sexual and Domestic Violence - 573.634.4161 or 800.666.1911
• Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence - 888-END-ABUSE
• Hope House - 816.468.5463

You should not receive a bill for the evidence collection exam. However, you may receive a bill from the hospital emergency department and the physician who treated you in the emergency department for medication given to you by the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) or if any tests were performed.

Please contact the MOCSA crisis line 816.531.0233 or 913.642.0233 to discuss your options if you receive a bill.

Johnson County:

Shawnee Mission Medical Center
St. Luke's South

Eastern Jackson County:

St. Luke's East

Jackson County:

Centerpoint Medical Center
Research Medical Center
St. Luke's Plaza
Truman Medical Center

Northland:

COVERSA at North Kansas City Hospital
St. Luke's North

Wyandotte County:

University of Kansas Medical Center

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