David A Opalewski

Answering the Cry for Help

$29.95

Guidelines for developing a program that promotes awareness about risks, suicide preven...

Confronting Death In The School Family

$69.95

Guidelines for responding to tragedy in a consistent and compassionate manner.

Grief: Processing and Recovery

$29.95

Gives schools a guide for addressing the death of a student or staff member - what to s...

Understanding and Addressing Adolescent Grief Issues

$39.50

Will help you, as the caring adult, be a guide through this troubling time with compreh...

David A Opalewski

David Opalewski, M.A. is the founder and president of Grief Recovery, Inc., in Saginaw, Michigan. He is an author, consultant, and a widely sought-after conference speaker and trainer for the tragedy component of school crisis teams across the country. David has a forty-four-year career in education. He has taught at the elementary, middle, high school, and college levels and was an at-risk counsellor for eight of those years. During Opalewski educational career, he experienced the combined deaths of twenty-six students and fellow staff members. He was a replacement teacher in a fifth-grade classroom for a teacher who was killed in an auto accident during the middle of the school year. He retired from Central Michigan University in May of 2017 as Professor Emeritus. David worked part time for three years in a funeral home as an aftercare consultant to the families of the deceased.