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The Cleugh family learned that grief and joy can coexist in ways they never expected. Everyday moments filled with laughter, milestones, and simply being together, are often intertwined with the ache of missing their sweet boy Bennett. They’ve learned to make space for joy while honouring his life, knowing that both are part of loving him.

This May, your gift to Canuck Place families will go twice as far thanks to our Mother's Day matching sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental. Double your impact and help provide a place where families like the Cleughs find comfort, joy, and love when they need it most.

The Cleugh family learned that grief and joy can coexist in ways they never expected. Everyday moments filled with laughter, milestones, and simply being together, are often intertwined with the ache of missing their sweet boy Bennett. They’ve learned to make space for joy while honouring his life, knowing that both are part of loving him.

This May, your gift to Canuck Place families will go twice as far thanks to our Mother's Day matching sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental. Double your impact and help provide a place where families like the Cleughs find comfort, joy, and love when they need it most.

The Cleugh family learned that grief and joy can coexist in ways they never expected. Everyday moments filled with laughter, milestones, and simply being together, are often intertwined with the ache of missing their sweet boy Bennett. They’ve learned to make space for joy while honouring his life, knowing that both are part of loving him.

This May, your gift to Canuck Place families will go twice as far thanks to our Mother's Day matching sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental. Double your impact and help provide a place where families like the Cleughs find comfort, joy, and love when they need it most.

The Cleugh family learned that grief and joy can coexist in ways they never expected. Everyday moments filled with laughter, milestones, and simply being together, are often intertwined with the ache of missing their sweet boy Bennett. They’ve learned to make space for joy while honouring his life, knowing that both are part of loving him.

This May, your gift to Canuck Place families will go twice as far thanks to our Mother's Day matching sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental. Double your impact and help provide a place where families like the Cleughs find comfort, joy, and love when they need it most.

Nurses make a big impact in our lives during some of our most vulnerable moments. They walk alongside parents through moments of uncertainty, grief, joy, and love. They comfort children through play and humour, and they create space for families to rest. The smallest gestures become our greatest memories.

As we mark the end of National Nursing Week, Canuck Place nurse Laura Wallbridge reflects on what nursing has taught her about presence, humanity, and the privilege of being trusted with people’s most vulnerable moments.

Click the link and have a read in our Life is Short newsletter.

Nurses make a big impact in our lives during some of our most vulnerable moments. They walk alongside parents through moments of uncertainty, grief, joy, and love. They comfort children through play and humour, and they create space for families to rest. The smallest gestures become our greatest memories.

As we mark the end of National Nursing Week, Canuck Place nurse Laura Wallbridge reflects on what nursing has taught her about presence, humanity, and the privilege of being trusted with people’s most vulnerable moments.

Click the link and have a read in our Life is Short newsletter.

Nurses make a big impact in our lives during some of our most vulnerable moments. They walk alongside parents through moments of uncertainty, grief, joy, and love. They comfort children through play and humour, and they create space for families to rest. The smallest gestures become our greatest memories.

As we mark the end of National Nursing Week, Canuck Place nurse Laura Wallbridge reflects on what nursing has taught her about presence, humanity, and the privilege of being trusted with people’s most vulnerable moments.

Click the link and have a read in our Life is Short newsletter.

Nurses make a big impact in our lives during some of our most vulnerable moments. They walk alongside parents through moments of uncertainty, grief, joy, and love. They comfort children through play and humour, and they create space for families to rest. The smallest gestures become our greatest memories.

As we mark the end of National Nursing Week, Canuck Place nurse Laura Wallbridge reflects on what nursing has taught her about presence, humanity, and the privilege of being trusted with people’s most vulnerable moments.

Click the link and have a read in our Life is Short newsletter.

Nurses make a big impact in our lives during some of our most vulnerable moments. They walk alongside parents through moments of uncertainty, grief, joy, and love. They comfort children through play and humour, and they create space for families to rest. The smallest gestures become our greatest memories.

As we mark the end of National Nursing Week, Canuck Place nurse Laura Wallbridge reflects on what nursing has taught her about presence, humanity, and the privilege of being trusted with people’s most vulnerable moments.

Click the link and have a read in our Life is Short newsletter.

Nurses make a big impact in our lives during some of our most vulnerable moments. They walk alongside parents through moments of uncertainty, grief, joy, and love. They comfort children through play and humour, and they create space for families to rest. The smallest gestures become our greatest memories.

As we mark the end of National Nursing Week, Canuck Place nurse Laura Wallbridge reflects on what nursing has taught her about presence, humanity, and the privilege of being trusted with people’s most vulnerable moments.

Click the link and have a read in our Life is Short newsletter.

Bennett found comfort in music so the Cleugh family would sing and dance with him at home and in hospital. His mom Ashley often sang “You are my sunshine” to calm him. Music gave them something to hold on to and connect with each other.

Honour a mother's love this month and your gift will be matched up to $20,000 until May 31 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental, supporting moms like Ashley.

Bennett found comfort in music so the Cleugh family would sing and dance with him at home and in hospital. His mom Ashley often sang “You are my sunshine” to calm him. Music gave them something to hold on to and connect with each other.

Honour a mother's love this month and your gift will be matched up to $20,000 until May 31 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental, supporting moms like Ashley.

Bennett found comfort in music so the Cleugh family would sing and dance with him at home and in hospital. His mom Ashley often sang “You are my sunshine” to calm him. Music gave them something to hold on to and connect with each other.

Honour a mother's love this month and your gift will be matched up to $20,000 until May 31 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental, supporting moms like Ashley.

Bennett found comfort in music so the Cleugh family would sing and dance with him at home and in hospital. His mom Ashley often sang “You are my sunshine” to calm him. Music gave them something to hold on to and connect with each other.

Honour a mother's love this month and your gift will be matched up to $20,000 until May 31 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, @headlandsenvironmental, supporting moms like Ashley.

Canuck Place nurses share expertise, love, compassion, joy and so much more in their work every day. Their curiosity, creativity, and sense of humour shapes the way they show up, and advocate, and care for children and families.

This National Nursing Week, we recognize and celebrate nurses for the transformative care and the profound impact they make when it matters most. #NursesWeek

To be a mother is to love in ways that don’t end—with presence, memory, tradition, and with compassion.

This Mothers Day, we honour that love.

This Mother’s Day, you can give to Canuck Place to help create more lasting memories for moms like Ashley. Thanks to @headlandsenvironmental, all donations will be matched up to $20,000 until May 31.

#MothersDay

#MothersDay

Mental health support is part of every family’s journey and no one should have to navigate it alone.

This National Child & Youth Mental Health Day, we’re reminded of the importance of caring for children and families through their uncertainty and grief. Canuck Place counsellors and social workers walk alongside children and teens, making space to process big feelings, ask difficult questions, and make sense of their grief.

We’re grateful to @prosperacreditunion for pledging $15,000 this year to sustain this work. Your commitment helps ensure Canuck Place children, siblings, and parents have access to the care they need, when they need it most.

#NationalChildYouthMentalHealthDay #CanuckPlace #FiniteDaysInfiniteLove

Mental health support is part of every family’s journey and no one should have to navigate it alone.

This National Child & Youth Mental Health Day, we’re reminded of the importance of caring for children and families through their uncertainty and grief. Canuck Place counsellors and social workers walk alongside children and teens, making space to process big feelings, ask difficult questions, and make sense of their grief.

We’re grateful to @prosperacreditunion for pledging $15,000 this year to sustain this work. Your commitment helps ensure Canuck Place children, siblings, and parents have access to the care they need, when they need it most.

#NationalChildYouthMentalHealthDay #CanuckPlace #FiniteDaysInfiniteLove

Mental health support is part of every family’s journey and no one should have to navigate it alone.

This National Child & Youth Mental Health Day, we’re reminded of the importance of caring for children and families through their uncertainty and grief. Canuck Place counsellors and social workers walk alongside children and teens, making space to process big feelings, ask difficult questions, and make sense of their grief.

We’re grateful to @prosperacreditunion for pledging $15,000 this year to sustain this work. Your commitment helps ensure Canuck Place children, siblings, and parents have access to the care they need, when they need it most.

#NationalChildYouthMentalHealthDay #CanuckPlace #FiniteDaysInfiniteLove

The Cleugh family carries memories of their son Bennett in their keepsakes. Castings of his tiny hands and feet, a pendant with his thumbprint, a lock of his hair, and a stuffed elephant with the sound of his heartbeat captured inside. The elephant is special to his sister Madeline, so she wanted her little brother to have one too. Bennet’s dad Gilbert has a tattoo of his handprint on his arm, to honour his memory.

These gifts help them keep Bennett close.

When you donate from now until May 31, your gift will be matched up to $20,000 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, Headlands Environmental Services, supporting families like the Cleughs. Click the link in bio to double your impact.

#FiniteDaysInfiniteLove #CanuckPlace

The Cleugh family carries memories of their son Bennett in their keepsakes. Castings of his tiny hands and feet, a pendant with his thumbprint, a lock of his hair, and a stuffed elephant with the sound of his heartbeat captured inside. The elephant is special to his sister Madeline, so she wanted her little brother to have one too. Bennet’s dad Gilbert has a tattoo of his handprint on his arm, to honour his memory.

These gifts help them keep Bennett close.

When you donate from now until May 31, your gift will be matched up to $20,000 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, Headlands Environmental Services, supporting families like the Cleughs. Click the link in bio to double your impact.

#FiniteDaysInfiniteLove #CanuckPlace

The Cleugh family carries memories of their son Bennett in their keepsakes. Castings of his tiny hands and feet, a pendant with his thumbprint, a lock of his hair, and a stuffed elephant with the sound of his heartbeat captured inside. The elephant is special to his sister Madeline, so she wanted her little brother to have one too. Bennet’s dad Gilbert has a tattoo of his handprint on his arm, to honour his memory.

These gifts help them keep Bennett close.

When you donate from now until May 31, your gift will be matched up to $20,000 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, Headlands Environmental Services, supporting families like the Cleughs. Click the link in bio to double your impact.

#FiniteDaysInfiniteLove #CanuckPlace

The Cleugh family carries memories of their son Bennett in their keepsakes. Castings of his tiny hands and feet, a pendant with his thumbprint, a lock of his hair, and a stuffed elephant with the sound of his heartbeat captured inside. The elephant is special to his sister Madeline, so she wanted her little brother to have one too. Bennet’s dad Gilbert has a tattoo of his handprint on his arm, to honour his memory.

These gifts help them keep Bennett close.

When you donate from now until May 31, your gift will be matched up to $20,000 by our Mother's Day Matching Sponsor, Headlands Environmental Services, supporting families like the Cleughs. Click the link in bio to double your impact.

#FiniteDaysInfiniteLove #CanuckPlace

Motherhood doesn’t end with loss.

Today is Bereaved Mothers Day and Canuck Place mom Kim Faulkner reflects on what it means to love her son Tommy—both in life and beyond. She writes about the body as memory, as connection, as a place where love continues to live. It’s a deeply personal reflection on motherhood, loss, and the ways we stay close to those we carry with us.

Click the link in bio to have a read in our Life is Short Newsletter.

Motherhood doesn’t end with loss.

Today is Bereaved Mothers Day and Canuck Place mom Kim Faulkner reflects on what it means to love her son Tommy—both in life and beyond. She writes about the body as memory, as connection, as a place where love continues to live. It’s a deeply personal reflection on motherhood, loss, and the ways we stay close to those we carry with us.

Click the link in bio to have a read in our Life is Short Newsletter.

Motherhood doesn’t end with loss.

Today is Bereaved Mothers Day and Canuck Place mom Kim Faulkner reflects on what it means to love her son Tommy—both in life and beyond. She writes about the body as memory, as connection, as a place where love continues to live. It’s a deeply personal reflection on motherhood, loss, and the ways we stay close to those we carry with us.

Click the link in bio to have a read in our Life is Short Newsletter.

Motherhood doesn’t end with loss.

Today is Bereaved Mothers Day and Canuck Place mom Kim Faulkner reflects on what it means to love her son Tommy—both in life and beyond. She writes about the body as memory, as connection, as a place where love continues to live. It’s a deeply personal reflection on motherhood, loss, and the ways we stay close to those we carry with us.

Click the link in bio to have a read in our Life is Short Newsletter.

Motherhood doesn’t end with loss.

Today is Bereaved Mothers Day and Canuck Place mom Kim Faulkner reflects on what it means to love her son Tommy—both in life and beyond. She writes about the body as memory, as connection, as a place where love continues to live. It’s a deeply personal reflection on motherhood, loss, and the ways we stay close to those we carry with us.

Click the link in bio to have a read in our Life is Short Newsletter.

Motherhood doesn’t end with loss.

Today is Bereaved Mothers Day and Canuck Place mom Kim Faulkner reflects on what it means to love her son Tommy—both in life and beyond. She writes about the body as memory, as connection, as a place where love continues to live. It’s a deeply personal reflection on motherhood, loss, and the ways we stay close to those we carry with us.

Click the link in bio to have a read in our Life is Short Newsletter.

This Bereaved Mothers Day, we hold space for mothers who carry loss and love side-by-side. We honour you, your children, your stories, and the bond that continues in every memory.

#BereavedMothersDay

Do you know the difference between an Accredited Facility Dog and a therapy animal?

While both can bring incredible comfort and healing to their clients, they differ a lot more than some people realize!

PADS Accredited Facility Dogs like Gaia at @canuckplace are purpose-bred and purpose-trained for their roles within their individual organizations. They perform specific tasks that facilitate wellness, and undertake two-and-a-half years of training to do so. They also have to pass a rigorous public access test, allowing them to access spaces where other animals are usually not allowed. PADS AFDs can be found in courtrooms, police stations, hospitals, and schools across Western Canada.

Like AFDs, therapy dogs can also be amazing resources! A therapy dog will utilize their gentle nature and good manners to bring comfort when visiting places like offices, schools, and care homes.

Got questions about AFDs or therapy animals? Let us know in the comments!

#NationalTherapyDogDay

Today is National Therapy Animal day and we’re celebrating the cuddliest member of our team. @padsdogs Accredited Facilities Dog, Gaia, is our employee of the month, every month! She works full time for Canuck Place with support from our generous friends and @yvrforkids.

Gaia’s job description includes:
- Bringing comfort and joy to our children and families
- Accepting pets and snacks
- Looking cute

She's often spotted with Camara van Breemen, Canuck Place Director, Community Care and Provincial Outreach and Nurse Practitioner Team Lead. They're a dynamic duo who show up for children and families where and when they're needed.

Thank you Gaia, and all our pawesome friends, for your warm care and support 🐾

The Cleugh family’s time at Canuck Place was about being together. They shared meals, received respite, and counselling to help them navigate the uncertain moments. They spent their time where it mattered most, right beside their little boy, creating lasting memories together.

#FiniteDaysInfiniteLove #CanuckPlace

The Cleugh family’s time at Canuck Place was about being together. They shared meals, received respite, and counselling to help them navigate the uncertain moments. They spent their time where it mattered most, right beside their little boy, creating lasting memories together.

#FiniteDaysInfiniteLove #CanuckPlace