The Team for Research with Adolescents and Children in Palliation and Grief (TRAC-PG) welcomes you to our website for families, health care providers, researchers, volunteers and decision makers to learn together about the care of seriously ill and dying children and their families.

Annual Symposium and Research Innovation Grant

Hold the Date! The 4rth Annual Pediatric Palliative Care Research Symposium: “A Day about Grief & Loss” is Tuesday October 30th, 2012 at SickKids. Conference information and registration is now live at: http://www.cvent.com/d/vWuo6h8B9kSwBH1fsmPw4w/wn3h/P1/1Q?

The Innovation Fund in Children’s Palliative Care Research grants $10,000 annually through the Sasha Bella Fund for Family Centred Care and the SickKids Foundation to support innovative pediatric palliative care research. In 2011 eight applications were received from across the country and 3 studies received grants:

  • “Feasibility and initial effectiveness of massage therapy for pain and anxiety reduction and improved quality of life in palliative children with cancer “
  • “Development of a Perinatal Palliative Care Survey”
  • “The Prevalence of poverty among families of children with life-limiting illnesses: an exploratory 5 year review of children receiving care from the Palliative and Bereavement Care Service at SickKids”

For information or applications, contact Laura Beaune at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

MAP of PALLIATIVE CARE RESOURCES

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