We are Rooster & Hen.
We support children, families, and communities experiencing grief and loss of all kinds.
We create resources, promote awareness, and hold space.
We are here to help with an authentic approach that is infused with art and storytelling, the common language among our diverse communities.
We want to walk alongside children and families as they face life’s changes and transitions in how we…
Create Resources
Reading and Activity Guides
Promote Awareness
Educator Trainings and Professional Development
Family and Community Grief Literacy Talks
Grief-Informed Cultural Sensitivity Seminars
Hold Space
Creative Care Corners for Children at Funerals
If you are interested in the offerings above, or want to partner together, please email rebecca@roosterandhenresources.com for more information.
Moving In Forever is our newest book on love, loss, and remembering a loved one forever. Based on true people and events, this book covers the topic of grief in an honest, sensitive way. The story and characters help children and adults see how to stay authentic while facing sadness, hopeful when facing loss, and joyful when facing longing. The story is based on real-life events and people who have lost a loved one under hospice care at home.
Our Journal
My Book Of Stuff is a creative support journal that is at-your-own pace with decide-for-yourself type journey. (Much like grief, huh?) No more skipping journal prompts! You make the rules! Filled with a variety of page formats from dots and grid to blank and lined, all ideas and feelings come to life. Two colorful sticker sheets of sentence starters and fun shapes provide countless ways to express, reflect, and document life’s ups and downs.
Our main workshop Process Not Prescription helps audiences and community members better understand that grief is a journey, unique to each person. Essentially, grief is a process of healing, expressing, and remembering and not a prescribed list of solutions, conditions, and expectations. We have plenty more workshops across topics and audiences, but each one centers around storytelling and sharing our authentic selves.
Our Past Highlights
We are so grateful to have been a part of this summer’s programming at the highly-anticipated Bucktown Arts Fest in Chicago! Our very own Ms. Rebecca led story time and art making fun. Click on the pic to learn more. Copy of Bucktown Arts Fest Poster used is credited to Marty Kaleta.
What a lovely week of respite with Nā Keiki O Emalia as we looked at what it means to create a more unified team to help children and families after the wildfires. Click on the pic to learn more.
Help us help Maui. The grief workers need relief too as they are also grieving. Rooster & Hen have been asked to go help our friends at Nā Keiki O Emalia. Thank you for helping us get there. Click the pic to learn more.
Come meet Ms. Rebecca at the local library in Bucktown, Chicago as she reads Moving In Forever, leads an art activity, and sign books! It’ll be a fun time for the whole family! Click the pic to learn more.
Join us at Schoolhouse Kitchen + Studio for family fun as we learn how to make ice cream and enjoy a read-aloud of Moving In Forever by author Ms. Rebecca! Part of the proceeds go toward helping displaced families in Maui. Click the pic to check out what happened.
Over 250 community members came to support conversations about grief. We gave out resources and had meaningful conversations! Click the pic to learn more.
We presented at this year’s NACG Symposium in Pittsburg on grief support from a collectivistic approach, a topic close to our hearts as we serve many diverse community groups and navigate cultural nuances and sensitivities. Click the pic to learn more.
What a heart-felt time with a community of amazing artists! Holding space as the Project Onward family grieve the loss of their late studio manager was impeccably meaningful. Together we created a safe, sacred place to process. Click the pic to learn more.
Joining the Guardian Lane Family means we are part of an online platform where kids and teens can access videos that help them on their grief journey, on-demand. Thrilled to be a part of this community of helpers. Click the pic to learn more.
Our family of clients, features, and collaborators:
