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Capital Improvements

Capital Improvements for Canuck Place Vancouver – Glen Brae Manor

Our Vancouver hospice location, Glen Brae Manor was built in 1910, nestled in the serene neighbourhood of Shaughnessy. When Canuck Place opened in 1995, the city of Vancouver rented the historic mansion to Canuck Place for $1 for a lease of 50 years. Ahead of caring for the very first patient, the 16,000 sq. ft. mansion was refurbished to deliver complex clinical care.

Now approaching 30 years of expert pediatric palliative care, our Vancouver hospice location needs an upgrade to ensure we can continue to meet the growing needs of medically complex children across the province.

Canuck Place Research Initiative

Leading the way in pediatric palliative care

At Canuck Place, we are committed to pediatric palliative care research. Knowledge is powerful and transformational. That’s why Canuck Place is committed creating and sharing knowledge. We collaborate with the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, and the research lab team meets regularly to review, process, plan, and share pediatric palliative care research projects. Research allows us to provide better care for the children and families at Canuck Place.

The Canuck Place Research Initiative is part of a national, interdisciplinary network of clinicians and researchers. Pediatric palliative care has become an innovative field through the support of Dr. Hal Siden, principal investigator of the Siden Lab; BC Children’s Health Research program, and Canuck Place. We’re grateful to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and PedPalASCNet for supporting this research since 2004.

The Research Initiative aims to improve the quality of care for children, youth, and their families living with life-threatening conditions, by increasing the capacity of Canuck Place and clinicians to conduct and use pediatric palliative care research.

Your support means further research into providing expert pediatric palliative care, ensuring every child across BC and the Yukon receives the care they need when they need it.

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Medical Respite Care

Rest and renewal

Medical respite care gives families rest, renewal, and support. We offer 24-hour, in-hospice clinical care temporarily for children—with or without their families. Our children receive pain and symptom management, recreation therapy, and counselling. They go to school, play music, and create art. Our program is designed to let families make the most of the time they have left.

Your caring support allows Canuck Place to provide comfortable, complex care to children and families in a safe, home-like environment. All at no cost to families.

Counselling and Bereavement

Canuck Place ensures no one walks this journey alone

Facing the death of a child presents complex and ever-changing emotional, spiritual, and psychosocial needs. Our counsellors are experts in helping families cope. Building on individual family member’s innate strengths, we help them adjust to each stage of the illness and beyond. through counselling programs, families find the courage to face one of life’s most unimaginable events.

With you, Canuck Place can be a guiding light for families, supporting them through to most challenging of circumstances.

Recreation Therapy

Memories that last a lifetime

Everyday experiences provide connection, excitement, and fun. Our recreation therapists facilitate annual camps, community outings, and special events. We offer daily recreation in hospices, with fully accessible play areas and play therapy rooms. In our memory-making program, children nearing end of life create personalized mementos. Tiny hands pressed into clay become tangible, lasting memories for bereaved families.

With you, we can help children with finite days, live life to the fullest.

Clinical Care Needs

Compassionate, complex care

We provide a 24/7 hospice care, and our extensive outreach program meets ever-increasing demand. Our clinical staff are experts in pediatric palliative care and are available for families when and where care is needed.

The vast majority of our operating budget goes to medical and nursing care. Our expert team takes pride in knowing we are doing all we possibly can to alleviate pain and suffering.

With your support, we can ensure Canuck Place has expert staff, resources, and tools to provide compassionate, complex care to families when and where they need it most.