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Chilliwack Hospice Society promotes planning personal health care decisions in advance
Recognizing that life happens to all of us, Chilliwack Hospice Society is offering free advance care planning workshops to promote conversations about your wishes and values for your future health care. According to the BC Centre for Palliative Care, over [...]
Chilliwack Hospice Society walking group takes steps toward comfort and healing
During a time when seeing fewer faces in wider spaces was very important, participants of the Chilliwack Hospice Society Supportive Walking Group have continued steadily through the challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. While a supportive walking group had been [...]
Chilliwack Hospice Society connects horses and bereaved children toward a healing outcome
Chilliwack Hospice Society partners with Freedom Reins Equine Connections to provide therapeutic sessions for bereaved children and youth in the local community Throughout the year as part of our children’s and youth programming at Chilliwack Hospice Society, we partner [...]
Chilliwack Hospice Society teaches grief literacy to local high school students through peer support training
Over six sessions this Fall, 12 high school students explored the importance of peer support in the grieving process through lectures, demonstrations, and group discussions at Chilliwack Hospice Society. Facilitated by Laurie McNaught, Community Outreach and Education Manager, and Franny [...]
Meeting students where they’re at in their time of grief
Chilliwack Hospice Society expands child and youth program to include in-school support Chilliwack Hospice Society child and youth programs manager Franceska “Franny” Hills began visiting students at Vedder Middle School last Spring to talk about their experiences with the death [...]
Thank you Chilliwack Quilters Guild and the Chilliwack PieceMakers Quilt Guild!
A huge thank you to the Chilliwack Quilters Guild and the Chilliwack PieceMakers Quilt Guild, for their continued and very generous donations of quilts for the patients at Cascade Hospice Residence. The quilts are placed on the beds in each [...]