Cope is now called Hospice Prince Edward!

In November, 2000, the Prince Edward Palliative Care Association and COPE joined together to become Hospice Prince Edward. COPE was formed in 1989 by Mark Davis and the Palliative Care Association was formed in 1996 by Dr. Graham Burke. Hospice continues to be a non-profit, non-denominational charitable organization whose purpose is to help people suffering from life threatening illness and their caregivers and families to live well and to help bereaved people of all ages cope with the death of a loved one.
The Hospice Prince Edward office is located at the Picton Hospital, Room 260. Telephone: (613)-476-2181 ext.4253.

Volunteers
Hospice volunteers are dedicated people who have taken special training programs to prepare them to assist people who are suffering a life threatening illness, their caregivers and their families who are grieving. Our volunteers provide direct support, group leadership, office and administrative support and fund raising support.

Public Education
Hospice Prince Edward is also able to provide a speaker for your organization on topics related to living with dying, death, grief and recovery.

Resource Centre
Hospice has a lending library of resource books, audio tapes, video tapes, pamphlets and articles. Anyone is welcome to come by the office to borrow these materials.

Support Groups
All support groups are organized and implemented by trained facilitators. A caregiver support group is available for people who are caring for others facing a life threatening illness. The group provides a safe place to share difficulties, joy and pain, to give and receive encouragement, and to celebrate victories. A grief support group is offered as needed. This group meets weekly for eight weeks. "Rainbows" is a new program that deals with children who have or who will have to face the death of a loved one or other grief related issues. This program is offered in a school setting with trained facilitators including one educated in Child and Youth work and Early Childhood Education.

Funding
Hospice is partially funded by the Ministry of Health Long-Term Care, the United Way, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, memorial donations, community direct mail comapigns and through fundraising activities.

GriefNet
GriefNet.org is an internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss. They have 47 e-mail support groups and two web sites. Their integrated approach to on-line grief support provides help to people working through loss and grief issues of many kinds. Their companion site, KIDSAID, provides a safe environment for kids and their parents to find information and ask questions.

Fernside
Fernside, founded in 1986 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a non-profit, non-denominational organization serving grieving children and their families. At Fernside, they know that the grieving child has the capacity to rebuild, so they gently encourage sharing of stories, feelings and memories with trusted friends, honoring each one's search for a new beginning.

Growth House, Inc.
Growth House, Inc., provides an award-winning portal as an international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care. Their primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying through public education and global professional collaboration. Their search engine provides access to the Internet's most comprehensive collection of reviewed resources for end-of-life care.