National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day – October 10, 2024
National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day raises awareness about the importance of children’s hospice palliative care and how it improves the quality of living and dying for children with serious illnesses and their families. The campaign is co-hosted by Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) and the Canadian Network of Palliative Care for Children (CNPCC), every year on the second Thursday of October.
Make Every Day Count
This National Children’s Palliative Care Day, celebrate how palliative care helps children with serious illnesses and their families Make Every Day Count!
2024 Campaign Theme: Make Every Day Count
How does children’s hospice palliative care help kids?
Every child deserves a full, happy life filled with love. How can we make sure that happens for children with a serious illness? That’s where children’s hospice palliative care teams come in. The focus is on improving the quality of life of the child and their family. That means support for:
- Symptom management
- Emotional and spiritual needs
- Building connections with other children and families on similar journeys
- Making memories and finding joy as a family
- And so much more!
- Pediatric palliative care teams are there to lighten the load, to walk alongside families on this journey, and to give them the support and resources they need so they can focus on the little joys and precious moments together.
How to get involved
This day is a call to action. It’s time to recognize that children’s hospice palliative care is not just a specialty. It is a shared responsibility across healthcare and communities to help children and families Make Every Day Count.
- Share this campaign with your friends, family, and colleagues – online and offline!
- Invite them to learn about children’s palliative care, who it is for, and how it creates opportunities for joy for seriously ill children and their families.
- Attend CHPCA’s webinar exploring how play and fun can be used in pediatric palliative care. Activities and play give sick children the opportunity to be kids, and for families to be a family together. This free webinar will explore how palliative care can help make that happen. Learn more and register.
- Support local children’s hospice palliative care programs who care for children and families in your communities. Find a program near you.
Free Webinar: October 10, 2024, 1:00 PM
To Celebrate National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day
MOMENTS OF MAGIC: PLAY AND MEMORY-MAKING IN CHILDREN’S PALLIATIVE CARE
Every child and family deserve to find joy and create memories together, regardless of a child’s illness or prognosis. Child Life Specialist Alexx Friesen will take us through how play, creativity and memory-making is, and can be incorporated in all pediatric palliative care settings, and how pediatric palliative care can help make every day count.
Register in advance:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3217277942141/WN_eVHwM5HaRleTJr6pF4_H4A#/registration
Join us as we shine a light on how children’s hospice palliative care helps families enjoy each day to its fullest. Show your support on social media with the hashtags #MakeEveryDayCount and #HPCForChildren!
Source: This article is shared from the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) promotional materials (October 3/24).
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