Kauffman and Associates, Inc. (KAI), Evermore, and the National Center for Fatality Review & Prevention are reimagining how grief and bereavement impact our lives. To learn more from tribal communities, KAI is facilitating 3 virtual listening sessions to gather insights and reflections from Indian Country on traditions, beliefs, and approaches for coping with loss. The information collected during these listening sessions may help inform future resources that support grieving communities. Listening Session Dates Join us for a virtual listening session where we will learn from you about how our ancestors grieved and honored the departed: Listening Session 1: May 12, 2025, 10 am CT Listening Session 2: May 19, 2025, 6 pm CT Listening Session 3: May 27, 2025, 3 pm CT Please note, you may only register and attend 1 listening session. Prize Drawing For each listening session, we will enter participants into a drawing to win 1 of 3 prizes—an Eighth Generation wool blanket, an Eighth Generation cotton blanket, or an Eighth Generation water bottle. About Kauffman and Associates, Inc. KAI is a 100% American Indian– and woman-owned small business specializing in planning, evaluation, communications, training, and facilitation. Meet the Listening Session Facilitators Danica Love Brown, MSW, CACIII, […]

When we lose loved ones, writing can be a powerful tool for helping us remember them, helping us re-encounter the world without them, and helping us re-know ourselves as the loss transforms us. In this two-hour online program, Evermore Poet Laureate Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will offer a few suggestions for writing. Together, we will read poems about grief and discuss them. We will have chances to do our own writing, there will be optional time for sharing what we wrote, and we will have time to reflect on the effect writing has on us.

For too long, bereavement research has failed to give bereaved people a voice and to incorporate the real-world factors that matter to grieving people, especially to their health and well-being. The narrow focus on what’s “wrong” with us and why we haven’t adapted to our loss on a specific timeline simply does not resonate with a large portion of people’s lived experience. Without input from those living with grief, researchers cannot know the most important research questions to ask and what kinds of care models and interventions should be developed. Evermore, with financial support from PCORI, has established the Lived Experience Bereavement Research Network (LEBRN) to do just that.  LEBRN will bring together people with varied backgrounds and expertise, including people who have experienced bereavement themselves — bereaved parents, children, siblings, spouses, and community leaders — alongside bereavement care providers and researchers. Over the next two years, we will identify how to best engage with bereaved people during research endeavors and we will recommend research questions, from the perspective of lived experience, to guide the future of bereavement research. As part of LEBRN, Evermore is engaging all bereaved people who would like to share their experiences, opinions, and insights to inform future bereavement […]

When we lose loved ones, writing can be a powerful tool for helping us remember them, helping us re-encounter the world without them, and helping us re-know ourselves as the loss transforms us. In this two-hour online program, Evermore Poet Laureate Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer will offer a few suggestions for writing. Together, we will read poems about grief and discuss them. We will have chances to do our own writing, there will be optional time for sharing what we wrote, and we will have time to reflect on the effect writing has on us.

For too long, bereavement research has failed to give bereaved people a voice and to incorporate the real-world factors that matter to grieving people, especially to their health and well-being. The narrow focus on what’s “wrong” with us and why we haven’t adapted to our loss on a specific timeline simply does not resonate with a large portion of people’s lived experience. Without input from those living with grief, researchers cannot know the most important research questions to ask and what kinds of care models and interventions should be developed. Evermore, with financial support from PCORI, has established the Lived Experience Bereavement Research Network (LEBRN) to do just that.  LEBRN will bring together people with varied backgrounds and expertise, including people who have experienced bereavement themselves — bereaved parents, children, siblings, spouses, and community leaders — alongside bereavement care providers and researchers. Over the next two years, we will identify how to best engage with bereaved people during research endeavors and we will recommend research questions, from the perspective of lived experience, to guide the future of bereavement research. As part of LEBRN, Evermore is engaging all bereaved people who would like to share their experiences, opinions, and insights to inform future bereavement […]

For too long, bereavement research has failed to give bereaved people a voice and to incorporate the real-world factors that matter to grieving people, especially to their health and well-being. The narrow focus on what’s “wrong” with us and why we haven’t adapted to our loss on a specific timeline simply does not resonate with a large portion of people’s lived experience. Without input from those living with grief, researchers cannot know the most important research questions to ask and what kinds of care models and interventions should be developed. Evermore, with financial support from PCORI, has established the Lived Experience Bereavement Research Network (LEBRN) to do just that.  LEBRN will bring together people with varied backgrounds and expertise, including people who have experienced bereavement themselves — bereaved parents, children, siblings, spouses, and community leaders — alongside bereavement care providers and researchers. Over the next two years, we will identify how to best engage with bereaved people during research endeavors and we will recommend research questions, from the perspective of lived experience, to guide the future of bereavement research. As part of LEBRN, Evermore is engaging all bereaved people who would like to share their experiences, opinions, and insights to inform future bereavement […]