Episode 359: On National Grief and Bereavement Day

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The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) shares that the third Tuesday in November marks the annual National Grief and Bereavement Day in Canada. The theme for this year is “Help Close Canada’s Grief Literacy Gap”. In this episode, Caitlin is joined by Dr. Susan Cadell, a social work researcher and adjunct professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at University of Waterloo, as well as the co-founder of Grief Matters, a Canadian organization that aims to improve how we understand and make room for grief.

Grief Matters: https://griefmatters.ca/

Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association: https://www.chpca.ca/awareness/national-grief-and-bereavement-day/

Grief literacy: A call to action for compassionate communities: https://lifeanddeathmatters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Breen-et-al.-Grief-literacy-A-call-to-action-for-compassionate-communities-1.pdf

Canadian Grief Alliance: https://aboutgrief.ca/ and their old site https://www.mygrief.ca/

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