Soft Connections: A Grief Café Series, featuring Jessica Correnti

For Children’s Grief Awareness Day on November 21, Bird in Hand joins with What's Your Grief to present Soft Connections: A Grief Café Series, inspired by value of soft connections in community spaces like Bird in Hand, and the support they lend to people in grief. This event features Jessica Correnti and her book for children, the ABCs of Grief.
This one-of-a-kind conversation will use Jessica's book as a launchpad for discussing how to support grieving kids, and how parents can tend to their own grief while parenting. Litsa Williams from the online organization What's Your Grief, co-author of the What's Your Grief book, will join Jessica in conversation.
This is going to be a night of honesty and softness all in one-- we hope you'll join us, and bring or make a friend.

What’s Your Grief is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for 1 category I continuing education unit.

Jessica Correnti is a Certified Child Life Specialist with over 16 years’ of experience and is the author of the children's books: The ABCs of Grief, Forever Connected (a children’s book for bereaved siblings), and the forthcoming book The ABCs of Grief: Emotions & Feelings. The first 14 years of her career were spent in the hospital setting in Pediatric ICUs, the Emergency Department, Inpatient Units, and Surgical Centers. Jessica has a BA in Education of Young Children, a minor in Psychology, and a MS in Healthcare Administration and Community Health. She is the founder and owner of Kids Grief Support, a private practice providing sessions to grieving children and families across the globe through therapeutic activities and support. Jessica also collaborates with businesses and individuals creating children's grief materials or programming for content expert consultations.

Litsa Williams, MA, LCSW-C is the co-founder of the online grief organization What’s Your Grief. She’s a grief therapist with 15 years of experience, with expertise in sudden and traumatic loss as well as ambiguous grief. Drawing on personal and professional experience with grief, WYG was built as a resource offering concrete, practical, creative, down-to-earth, and relatable support, founded on the values of psychoeducation and creative coping. It has grown to serve more than 5 million visitors each year. Litsa received her master's degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, as well as a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Warwick (UK). She has been interviewed as a grief expert for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and New York Times. She co-authored the 2022 book What's Your Grief: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss.

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