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Acclaim Health
• Community & home health care provider • Consultation and education on palliative care • Hospice home visiting • 1:1 Bereavement support program • Resources and information on grief and bereavement 2370 Speers Rd, Oakville, ON L6L 5M2 905-827-8800...
Andrea Warnick Consulting
Andrea Warnick is an educator, grief counsellor, nurse, and thanatologist. She specializes in ensuring that adults, children and youth have access to caring and informed support when experiencing the serious illness, dying, or death of someone close to them. She has...
Bethell Hospice
Bethell Hospice is a non-profit organization that provides support, free of charge, to individuals living with life limiting illness, their families, and the bereaved. Supportive counseling for adults and children available. It serves the Caledon, Brampton, Dufferin...
C. Elizabeth Dougherty Consulting
Elizabeth is a social worker and educator with extensive experience supporting children, youth and adults facing complex illness, uncertainty and grief. After specializing in Palliative Care at the largest cancer treatment centre in Canada, she started a...
Carpenter Hospice
Carpenter Hospice is a home in the heart of Burlington that offers both residential-based care to people in the last stages of their lives, and community-based programs for people dealing with grief or a lifelimiting illness. • Residential Hospice • Community Programs...
The Dorothy Ley Hospice
The Dorothy Ley Hospice is a volunteer-based community service organization offering compassionate care to people living with the challenges of a life-limiting illness or loss. Our programs are designed to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual and support needs of...
Emily’s House
Emily’s House is Toronto’s only hospice for children and families facing life-threatening illnesses. In moments of grief and difficulty. Help us add life to a child’s years by helping children and families find support.Contact Information:Address: 45 Jack Layton Way,...
Family Education Centre
Family Education Centre has been enriching the lives of families in the communities through parent-to-parent education, support and training. We offer safe, nonjudgmental parenting forums that allow parents to explore skills, tips and resources to enhance their...
Gilda’s Club of Greater Toronto
Gilda's Club of Greater Toronto is a registered charity that is making an important difference for cancer patients, their family and friends in the Greater Toronto Area. No cancer care plan is complete without emotional, social and practical support, an essential...
Heart House Hospice
Hospice is about making the most of every moment. Heart House Hospice is a community program that offers in home support to palliative individuals and their families living in Brampton and Mississauga. We have a number of programs and supports (including one to one...
Jorja’s Awesome Grief Village (J.A.G. Village)
Jorja’s Awesome Grief Village (J.A.G. Village) offers grief & bereavement therapy, supportive counseling, education, consultation & collective healing activities to children, youth, adults & families who are anticipating or have experienced the loss of a...
The Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children
The Lighthouse offers peer bereavement support groups to children and teens ages 3-18 and their caregivers following the death of an immediate family member or close friend. Support groups are open-ended and ongoing and are offered at no cost to families. We offer...
The Norfolk Haldimand Community Hospice
Though grief is a natural part of loss~ it can also be one of the most difficult experiences of our lives. Grieving is a process and how we grieve is unique to each person. Yet it doesn’t mean we need to experience it alone. ...
The Toronto Commandery Hospice
The Toronto Commandery Hospice recognizes that grieving the death and/or imminent death of a loved one can be one of the most difficult experiences we will encounter in our lifetime. Children can be particularly vulnerable in simply not having the experience or...
OUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network
Thank you to the CW and MH LHIN for providing funding to print and make the CYGN resources (toolkits and…

Ontario Trillium Funding
Thank you to the Ontario Trillium Foundation for providing a SEED Grant to CYGN in 2018/2019. The Seed Grant supports…

Retired Teachers of Ontario
Thank you to Retired Teachers of Ontario for funding the Children and Youth Grief Network’s video series, ‘how to best support grieving children…

The Children and Youth Grief Network
The Children and Youth Grief Network is generously funded by the Region of Peel’s Collaboration Fund, which supports various stages of partnership and planning…
Community Foundation of Mississauga
Heart House Hospice, the lead organization of the Children and Youth Grief Network gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Pendle Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga, a registered charitable public foundation serving the people of Mississauga in the French translation and print of A Handbook for Supporters: Extending Compassion and Care to Grieving Youth.