Families for Safe Streets is a place for emotional support
Our San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Families for Safe Streets is a place for those who have been directly affected by a traffic crash to connect with others who understand – and to work together toward change.
Families for Safe Streets is also a place for emotional support. Group members get to know and lean on one another. Some participate in the regular support sessions offered online by the national Families for Safe Streets group.
We provide an up-to-date list of resources and providers available in the Bay Area and online for grief and trauma.
Our Families for Safe Streets chapter members have also shared their own recommendations and reflections:
- Books and films to navigate grief with your young child from a parent who’s been there
- Finding outlets for grief and healing after a traffic crash
- Tips for supporting those grieving – from a mom who lost her son in a traffic crash
- 3 books on grief and loss recommended by Families for Safe Streets members
- Hannah’s journey in grief
To add to this, here is a recent recommended list of books to help with grief, loss, and bereavement compiled by Hope Reese for the New York Times:
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – offers reflections on the second year after a death, when grief can be even more intense
- A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney – a father’s perspective on losing a young child
- Notes on Grief by Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichie – includes many of the physical manifestations of grief
- Sad Book by Michael Rosen, Illustrated by Quentin Blake – for all ages, this helps people feel seen and understood in grief’s complexities
- Understanding Your Grief by Alan D. Wolfest – a longstanding popular and beloved guide to grief
- It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine – accessible and meant for those in grief and those supporting them
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl – “Frankl reminds us that when we cannot change our situation, our choices still matter,” said Dr. David Spiegel, a medical director at the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.
San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets is a group of people who have been directly affected by traffic crashes, including crash survivors and people whose loved ones have been killed or injured in traffic crashes. Learn more.
Questions? Contact marta@walksf.org.
