Childcan Resources and Links
Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, London
Children's Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, serves as a regional referral centre providing specialized Paediatric services to children in southwestern Ontario. Children’s Hospital serves children from birth to age 17 years. The southwest includes the 10 counties of Bruce, Gray, Huron, Perth, Oxford, Middlesex, Elgin, Lambton, Kent and Essex and extends southwest to Windsor, south to the tip of Elgin county, north to the top of the Bruce Peninsula and east to Kitchener. The region encompasses 28,972.41 square kilometers.
Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, also supports other Ontario regions especially northwestern Ontario through its transport system. As a transplant centre Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre also serves from time to time as a national paediatric health care resource.
www.chwo.org
Windsor Regional Hospital
Windsor Regional Hospital is a multi-faceted, dynamic, health services organization operating from two main sites, the Metropolitan Campus and the Western Campus. WHR is committed to supporting a comprehensive, patient/client/resident and family centered health system for the citizens of Windsor/Essex County and for some specialized services, Chatham-Kent. In association with community partners, WHR provides a wide variety of services that contribute to this community health system.
www.whr.on.ca
The Paediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
The Paediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (POGO) was founded in 1983 by a group of Paediatric oncologists to champion childhood cancer care and control. As the representative voice of the childhood cancer community, POGO works to ensure that all of Ontario's children with cancer have equal access to state-of-the-art diagnosis, treatment and required ancillary services. We also aim to make certain that Ontario's children with cancer have the greatest prospects for survival with an optimal quality of life.
www.pogo.ca
Camp Trillium
The Trillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre offers and promotes recreational experiences to bring children with cancer and their families together. The Trillium Centre provides an environment that normalizes relationships and experiences, helping children and families in the healing process and enhancing their quality of life.
Each year over 400 children are diagnosed with cancer. This diagnosis is devastating not only to the child, but also to their entire family. It is Camp Trillium's goal to ensure that children living with cancer have a special place to go to be away from the disease, if only briefly, and to be children and enjoy all that childhood should be--fun and full of friends. Year-round, Camp Trillium offers 54 programs throughout the province of Ontario for children living with cancer and their families.
www.camptrillium.com
Cottage Dreams
As a result of her own mother's breast cancer diagnosis, life-long cottager Seana O'Neill decided that she would like to share her Haliburton, Ontario cottage with those who would not otherwise have the opportunity to get away. She was inspired to invite cancer survivors to visit her cottage when she was not there and thought other cottager owners would do the same if given the opportunity. The response to the idea was immediate, passionate and sparked the creation of Cottage Dreams, a one-of-a-kind registered charity that provides time away at a donated cottage to bring cancer survivors and their families together to reflect upon and celebrate recovery at the cottage. In September 2003, Cottage Dreams placed its first 6 cancer survivors into donated cottages in some of Ontario's most beautiful recreational destinations!
www.cottagedreams.org
Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Association
GiveMarrow.net is the web site for the Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Association which was founded in July 2005 by Bryan and Joanne Bedard of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Bryan and Joanne were inspired to launch GiveMarrow.net after losing their daughter Katelyn to Leukemia at the age of 3, when she was not able to find a bone marrow donor.
The mission of GiveMarrow.net is to promote awareness about the worldwide bone marrow registries, to bring attention to the pressing need for bone marrow donors and to encourage all healthy adults to consider joining the registry if they are eligible to do so. The GiveMarrow.net web site is an information center assisting people in learning about bone marrow donation and making it easier for them to find out how to join the bone marrow registry in their country.
www.givemarrow.net
Brain Tumour Foundation
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to reaching every person in Canada affected by a brain tumour with support, education and information, and to funding brain tumour research.
www.braintumour.ca
Canadian Blood Services
Canadian Blood Services is a not-for-profit, charitable organization whose sole mission is to manage the blood and blood products supply for Canadians. Canadian Blood Services is committed to blood safety. In addition to the effective screening and testing processes, this pursuit of safety is reflected in every branch of its organizational structure and in each management and operational decision that is made.
www.bloodservices.ca
Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation (National Office)
Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation (National Office) is committed to our mission of providing support, education and advocacy for children and adolescents with cancer, survivors of childhood/adolescent cancer, their families and the professionals who care for them.
www.candlelighters.org
The Childhood Cancer Foundation
The Childhood Cancer Foundation was founded in 1987 as a support organization to help children with cancer and their families. We are the only national organization dedicated entirely to the fight against childhood cancer. We achieve our goal of improving the lives of children with cancer and their families through a variety of programs and services.
www.childhoodcancer.ca
The Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society is a national, community based organization of volunteers whose mission is the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of the quality of life of people living with cancer.
www.cancer.ca
Carla Can Sing
Barbara Parry Paediatric Oncology Association provides the "Carla Can Sing" package free of charge to children with cancer in the province of Ontario, Canada. The package includes a "Carla" or "Carl" doll, a colourful storybook, a compact disk (CD) with a story and music that matches the words in the book, and a tote bag.
www.uwindsor.ca/carla_can_sing
Super Sibs!
Super Sibs! Goal is to reach out to the brothers and sisters of over 12,600 children in the U.S. and Canada who are diagnosed with cancer each year. Through our work, these siblings will feel valued, validated, heard, supported and delighted as recipients of SuperSibs! services and as participants in SuperSibs! activities.
www.supersibs.org
Ronald McDonald House Charities
Ronald McDonald House Charities® (RMHC) of Canada is committed to helping children. It's as simple as that. RMHC offers a helping hand and strives to improve the quality of life for children living with serious and/or life-threatening illnesses or disabilities.
www.rmhc.ca
Bereaved Families of Ontario Southwest Region
Bereaved Families of Ontario is a non-profit association of families who have lost a child to death. Our belief is that the people who truly understand this special kind of grief are those who have experienced the same tragedy. We offer a non-judgmental environment with trained volunteers who are bereaved parents themselves. We offer a variety of different programs. It is totally up to you to determine your own level of involvement. You don't have to go through this alone.
www.bfo.london.on.ca
Hospice of Windsor and Essex County Inc.
The hospice wellness centre is a place for patients who live with a life-threatening illness. Patients, their families and caregivers are offered peace, comfort, and encouragement to pursue opportunities for personal growth and wellness while living with their diagnosis.
The centre provides support groups, alterenative therapies including painting, exploring, creating & self discovery, QiGong, Massage Therapy, Radiant Touch, Authentic Reiki, Therapuetic Touch, Patient and Family Education and so much more. Programs and services are free of charge.
www.hospicewindsoressex.com
Angel Hair for Kids
A Child’s Voice Foundation
3034 Palstan Road, #301
Mississauga, Ontario L4Y 2Z6
Angel Hair for Kids is a program of A Child’s Voice Foundation and provides human or synthetic hair wigs for children from financially disadvantaged families who have lost their hair as a result of the A,B,C’s of hair loss: Alopecia, Burns, and Chemotherapy and Radiation. All hair donations stay within Canada. To learn more visit:
www.achildsvoicefoundation.com
Hair for Kids Program
c/o Continental Hair
92 1/2 Avenue Road
Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2H2
Wigs for Kids Affiliate
c/o The Medical Image
603 Argus Road, Suite 108
Oakville, Ontario, L6J 6G6
www.wigsforkids.org
