Daya Counselling Centre

The Bereavement Services Committee helps people and families experience a healthy grief response by providing community education, and professional development, and through identifying and addressing service and/or resource gaps.  The Committee operates under the umbrella of Daya Counselling Centre.  Membership on the committee is from a cross-section of educational, religious, cultural, business and other groups that have an interest in or provide bereavement services.

Activities

• Produces and distributes information on bereavement support groups
• Produces and distributes the Bereavement Services Directory (Seasons of the Heart)
• Maintains this website
• Offers a Speakers Bureau
• 2004 Therese Rando Conference
• 2005 Exploring Family Dynamics of Grief Conference with Ken Doka
• 2006 Loss and Healing: Practical Approaches with Tom Golden
• 2007 Giving Sorrow Shape Conference
• 2009 Life Losses: Finding Your Way - One-day Information and Education Fair

Committee Membership

• Cathy Walsh, Chair, Bereaved Families of Ontario
• Susan Alexander, London Health Sciences Centre
• Dr. Bruce Connell, Thames Valley School Board (Retired)
• Eunice Gorman, King's University College
• Jane Graham, Hospice of London
• Darcy Harris, King's University College
• Daniel Lockwood, Wellspring
• Gay McMeekin, Mount Pleasant Cemetery
• Leslie Misurake, St. Michael’s Church Bereavement Committee
• Carolyn Nixon, Westview Funeral Chapel
• Bonnie Williams, Daya Counselling Centre

More Information

• Cathy Walsh
• Phone: (519) 686-1573
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