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Kindred Cares Grant Awardees
The Kindred Cares Grant is focused on funding programs, projects, research and operations in the area of hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care for adults and/or children with life-limiting conditions.
2023 Awardees
Project Title: Enhanced Community Care Program
Location: Vancouver, BC
Funding: $10,000
The Enhanced Community Care program offers out-patient care to children and families at Canuck Place through a 24/7 nursing line, video and telehealth consultations, coordination between services, and visits by their clinical team to a child’s home or community hospital. This program ensures that each family, anywhere in BC or Yukon, receives expert medical care for their child, and support for the whole family.
Project Title: Hospice Palliative Program
Location: Milton, Ontario
Funding: $5,000
Provides professional, holistic, high-quality, and personalized respite, residential, and hospice palliative care to children with medical complexities. Their Hospice Palliative Program supports children and families across the entire continuum, from the time a child is diagnosed through to end-of-life care, to ensure every child is given the chance to be supported.
Project Title: Emily’s House at Home
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Funding: $5,000
The Emily’s House at Home program offers care for children with complex care needs in their own homes, in person, in transition, in hospice, in virtual groups, and in accessible community spaces - accessible wherever a child may be located.
Project Title: Equipment Lending and Meals on Wheels
Location: Madoc, Ontario
Funding: $10,000
Their Lending Equipment program provides the community with free access to medical and mobility equipment including nutritional and personal product support when available. The Heart of Hastings Hospice will also connect and collaborate with Meals on Wheels, offering meals to local caregivers caring for those with a life-limiting illness.
Project Title: Help us Understand Grief
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario
Funding: $6,750
Their HUUG Program (Help Us Understand Grief) helps children process their grief after a loved one has died. They will develop a new family workshop series as an addition to this program, focusing on anticipatory grief. By providing support as they transition in their grief journey, children will learn how to integrate their grief into their lives in a healthy way.
McMaster Children's Hospital, Quality of Life and Advanced Care
Project Title: 3D Antenatal Ultrasounds for Legacy Creation in Perinatal Palliative Care
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
Funding: $5,000
The Perinatal Palliative Care stream supports families whose baby is diagnosed with a serious health condition during pregnancy or shortly after birth. For those families whose child is unlikely to survive pregnancy and birth, and who will not have the time or opportunity for memory-making with their child, support is provided by funding antenatal 3D-ultrasounds. This is an extraordinary opportunity to create memories and long-lasting legacy items.
Project Title: Co-Designing a Sustainable Serious Illness Education Training Program in Pediatrics by Integrating Clinician Learner and Family Stakeholders
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Funding: $9,800
The design of a program to train senior pediatrics residents as facilitators in how to conduct conversations about serious illness with patients and families. This training program will be co-designed by parents with lived experience who care for a child with a serious illness. The goal is to improve communication skills and ultimately create a training program that can be shared nationally. This project will have a wide reach: with resident learners, clinicians, and ultimately, patients with serious illnesses and their families.
Project Title: Legacy Work, Music Therapy and Grief Workshops
Location: Port Perry, Ontario
Funding: $8,000
A community-based hospice organization that provides compassionate care and support out of the Morgan & Sidhu House. They aim to provide more meaningful end-of-life and grief support services for residents and their families. Oak Ridges Hospice will do this by increasing opportunities for legacy work, music therapy experiences, and post-loss workshops.
Project Title: Grief Services
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Funding: $10,000
To expand their grief services, a temporary consultant will prepare for the successful implementation of a new Grief Services Coordinator role. Roger Neilson House is committed to supporting children and families throughout their palliative care journey.
SickKids/University of Toronto, Bloomberg Nursing
Project Title: Pediatric Palliative Care in Canada in 2022: A Cross-sectional Descriptive Study
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Funding: $10,000
Dr. Kimberley Widger will be conducting a study to describe access and delivery of specialized pediatric palliative care across Canada in 2022. The research will build upon and compare to the research on this topic that was completed in 2002 and 2012. This aims to generate awareness about children’s timely access to specialized pediatric palliative services across Canada as well as successes and potential ongoing gaps in delivery over the last 20 years.
In addition to these grants, donations were also made to Hospice Peterborough, Huron Shores Hospice, and Journey Home Hospice this year. Kindred Foundation supported 13 different hospices and palliative care programs – a total of $99,550 donated in 2023.
2022 Awardees
Project Title: The Nancy Chan Enhanced Community Care Program
Location: Vancouver, BC
Funding: $10,000
Offers out-patient care to children and families at Canuck Place through a 24/7 nursing line, video consultations and visits by our clinical team to a child’s home or community hospital, throughout the province of BC.
Project Title: Gashkendamide’e x HUUG Pilot Program
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario
Funding: $9,680
Creating a culturally sensitive, relevant, and responsive bereavement program for Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay.
Project Title: Art Therapy Living Legacy Program
Location: Guelph, Ontario
Funding: $10,000
Combining art therapy and legacy work to support reflection, emotion, and reconciliation for residents or families.
Project Title: Gazebo Project
Location: North Bay, Ontario
Funding: $10,000
Construction of a safe and accessible outdoor space for programming. The gazebo enables residents and their loved ones the ability to go outside together.
Project Title: Therapeutic Recreational Programming
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Funding: $10,000
Funding will provide additional recreational therapy opportunities for children with life-limiting conditions by adding to their recreational therapist team and making services more readily accessible.
2021 Awardees
Project Title: Hospice Palliative Program
Location: Milton, Ontario
Funding: $5,000
Operational funding for supporting children and families accessing hospice palliative care services.
Project Title: Emily’s House at Home
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Funding: $7,500
Funding for "Emily's House at Home", a pilot program to help with providing hospice care in hospital, at home, in transition, virtually, and at Emily's House to ensure that families are supported no matter where they are.
Project Title: Grief, Bereavement and Wellness Programs
Location: North Bay, Ontario
Funding: $7,500
Expansion of the grief, bereavement and wellness program to provide comprehensive spiritual psychosocial and emotional care to caregivers, families and residents.
Project Title: Supportive Care Counselling
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Funding: $5,000
Funding for a supportive care counselor to provide grief support to families.
Hospital for Sick Children Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT)
Project Title: Family Experiences with Clinical Team Meetings: A Scoping Review
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Funding: $7,500
Identifying the key components of family meetings for children with serious illness from the perspective of caregivers.
Hospital for Sick Children Child Life
Project Title: VR Social Intervention
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Funding: $7,500
Using social virtual environments and virtual reality for adolescents to connect and interact with others when in hospital or at home through personalized avatars.
Project Title: Bereaved Children and Teens Through Art Program
Location: Waterloo, Ontario
Funding: $7,500
Programming for bereaved children and teens to process grief through art and music.
Project Title: Art and Narrative Therapy Program
Location: Guelph, Ontario
Funding: $4,000
Support for the Art and Narrative Therapy research project utilizing art and storytelling to gain insight and personal perspectives through grief, working towards increased resiliency.