- Date awarded: February 2024
- Awarded value: £2,379
- Location: Resources for children (memory boxes, books, cuddly toys)
Providing support and counselling to parents, partners and children when most needed
Fife Specialist Palliative Care’s Children and Families Support Service provides psychosocial information, advice, support and counseling to patients and their partners and co-parents, children, stepchildren and young people facing parental death and bereavement.
This funding has enabled the service to improve the patient experience at end of life by increasing support for children and young people. This project also aims to reduce health inequalities by supporting approaches on early intervention. Early support towards pre-bereavement education support families to prepare for parental death.
The micro and small grants have provided:-
- Memory boxes
- Bereavement books
- Cuddly toys
Both my children and my nephews have made use of the books that were provided, so that’s four children helped through one of life’s most difficult experiences. The presence of this service was also a big comfort to my husband, whose primary concern was always his children and the impact his death would have on them and me. The children have the big cuddly toys which they still sleep with and the little ones provided comfort to him in his last days when he became anxious and agitated.
