SCHC Bereavement Care

We are providing virtual support during the COVID-19 suspension of in person services. 

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Bereavement care volunteer application

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When someone important to you has died,
we provide companionship and support 
as you learn to live with grief in your own unique way.
                                                                   Your journey. Your choices.

​SCHC’s Community Hospice Program team is dedicated to providing compassionate, respectful and holistic care for individuals and families in Scarborough who are facing life-limiting illness and grief.
 
Our Bereavement Care programs are part of the suite of services offered through our Community Hospice Team. We offer support and information to any individual in Scarborough coping with grief and loss. 

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After meeting with a staff member, you will be offered a range of opportunities to access our services:

• You can meet individually with a rigorously screened and professionally trained volunteer for peer support. Our volunteers are not professionally trained counselors or therapists, but are people like you who have experienced a death in their family and are on a similar journey of learning to live with their grief. 
• You may also consider joining one of our peer-facilitated, mutual support bereavement groups. We offer a range of mutual support bereavement groups around specific loss experiences, educational groups as well as Therapeutic Art, Walking and Meditation groups for people who are grieving.

What is Grief?

• A natural response to loss.
• A unique experience for every person.
• Not a problem to be fixed.
• An experience we all share as a result of being human.
• Something that can be experienced because of both death and non-death related losses.
  
  

Grief is a holistic experience that impacts us in different ways: physically, emotionally, mentally, socially and spiritually. The experience of grief is normal, natural and unique for every person and every loss. Grief allows us to say goodbye to what was and get ready for that which is yet to come.
 
We believe that everyone carries the capacity within her/himself to integrate their loss experiences and learn to live with grief if given safe and supportive places to explore and experience grief in whatever way makes sense to them.
 
It is Never too Soon to Connect…
Our staff and volunteers are available to provide support in ways that are least intrusive to your present situation. We believe and honour that you are in the ‘driver’s seat’ and direct your care needs.  You can meet with our Bereavement Care Coordinator to discuss the support that is available, and you can then decide when and how you would like to access support.  Although you may decide to wait to access support, you may wish to register with Hospice Bereavement Care Services and then simply call us when your needs change. Self and community referrals accepted.  All referrals will be assessed for eligibility and linked to appropriate services. 

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Contact

Title: Bereavement  Coordinator
Name: Marie Zuzek
Email: mzuzek@schcontario.ca
Phone: (416)-642-9445 ext. 4420
Referral Form: HERE

Locations

The Hub Mid-Scarborough
2660 Eglinton Ave. East (at Brimley)
Toronto, ON  M1K 2S3

For more information about grief visit

www.virtualhospice.ca
www.whatsyourgrief.com
www.mygrief.ca