The Group's Purpose

Mission: to facilitate the provision of care and support to the bereaved, caregivers and services providers and to increase public understanding of grief as a life process through education, support, advocacy, networking and dissemination of information.

• The Helpline: we have assisted over 40,000 calls and emails since inception. It is the only free grief-specific Helpline in Canada. Your call or email will be answers by a trained, caring and compassionate volunteer who will provide compassionate listening or qualified and accurate referrals for your specific grief support needs. 

• Homicide & Suicide Grief Support Groups: BCBH and it's subsidiary program, BC Victims of Homicide, host several traumatic loss support groups every year specific to homicide or suicide loss. This type of loss can result in feelings of anger, confusion, alienation and stigma for the bereaved. Our groups bring together those with similar losses to share in their unique experience and gather strength support from this unique community. 

• Training: we train those who are interested in learning more about how trauma effects grief and who may be interested in facilitating a grief support group. 

• Education: BCBH is available for grief education presentations custom to what your group needs to better understand the effects of grief and loss, especially secondary and ambiguous losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

How to Help

 BCBH will use your critical financial support towards: 

• Providing lower-cost access to our homicide or suicide grief support groups 

• Expanding homicide and suicide grief support groups to more communities throughout BC 

• Researching additional programs to support family members and caregivers in the face of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis and the loss of our assumptive world

• Updating our technological capacity to increase our capacity to respond to our community's needs

• Volunteer and Staff education and training

What Your Donation Will Provide

• $60 allows BCBH to provide 150 BCBH Grief & Loss Support brochures to an organization in need at no cost. 

• $120 supports one person for an 8-week homicide or suicide grief support group.

• $250 helps us train one Helpline volunteer.

• $350 can support a Traumatic Loss Facilitator Training fee for a person or organization that has limited funding.