One of the hardest parts about working with youth experiencing homelessness is coping with the loss of young people to violence, suicide, accidents, and illness. While each agency within the Hollywood Homeless Youth Partnership has developed their own rituals to support consumers and staff in the aftermath of a tragedy, we believe that a coordinated response across our service network will result in a more effective and trauma-informed response. This document was inspired and liberally adapted (with their generous permission) from Portland’s Homeless Youth Continuum’s “Best Practices: Workplace Tragedy,” a document produced in collaboration with Trauma Informed Oregon. This protocol is designed to provide a foundational philosophy and action steps around our collective response to tragedy and to offer best practices to agencies that are part of our network.