When someone important to you dies, you grieve. That means you may experience a wide range of emotions and feelings over an extended period of time. This is normal. 

 

Accepting a loss is not an easy journey and there may be times when you want more support than is available through your social network.  Below is a list of online resources.  

 

Videos:
Education video series:

Presented by Dr. Rick Singleton in partnership with Eastern Health’s Department of Pastoral Care, Ethics and Bereavement Services, the four-part Grief and Bereavement Education Series explores the journey of grief and talks about ways to move through loss.

• https://www.easternhealth.ca/find-health-care/pastoral-care-ethics-and-bereavement/bereavement-services/grief-and-bereavement-education-video-series/
   

• https://www.easternhealth.ca/find-health-care/pastoral-care-ethics-and-bereavement/bereavement-services/perinatal-bereavement/

Resources:

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Bridge the Gap https://bridgethegapp.ca/ 

• The Compassionate Friends of Canada (NL Chapter) – provides grief support to parents and grandparents after the death of a child, including adult children. For more information, please call 709-753-3530.

• https://tcfcanada.net/chapters/newfoundland/

 

National and International Resources:

Videos: (YouTube) 

• Uncoupled: Dealing with the Death of a Spouse

• Dearly Loved: Dealing with the Death of a Parent

• A Family Disrupted: Dealing with the Death of a Sibling

• Out of Order: Dealing with the Death of a Child

 

• Video playlists: (YouTube)

  • Children and Youth

  • Loss and Grief

• Hospice of the Valley

• Eluna Network)

• Mygrief.ca

• Hospice Calgary

• Victoria Hospice
  Useful services and links Victoria Hospice

• Bereavement Ontario Network

• The Center for Grief Journey

• The Irish Hospice Foundation

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Perinatal Loss

We hope that you will find these resources useful.  Please note that they are not intended as a replacement for medical advice, but instead provide a general overview for your personal use along with suggestions of further sources of information. For counselling options please visit https://www.centralhealth.nl.ca/counselling-options  or call 811 for the nearest doorways location.

Perinatal Loss Eastern Zone:
https://www.easternhealth.ca/find-health-care/pastoral-care-ethics-and-bereavement/bereavement-services/perinatal-bereavement/

 

https://m.facebook.com/groups/126696577500617 - this is a local group called Pregnancy and Infant Loss, Newfoundland and Labrador (PAILNL).

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https://pailnetwork.sunnybrook.ca/  - Several resources can be found here: toolkits, checklists, and many things of great value.

 

https://missfoundation.org/  - There are many forums here. One such forum is a parent to parent mentor program that will matches families with a mentor who has experienced a similar loss but is further down the road in their journey. 

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