The success of this year's Handbags for Hospice event will help launch a new VON program for children.
VON Oxford is about start a new program designed to help children.
The Child Bereavement program was possible after receiving over $31 000 in funding at the Handbags for Hospice event. Care and Service Manager for VON Programs in Oxford County Robin Kish tells Heart FM how the program will help.
"So the program would offer supports to children who have experienced a loss, it could be a loss through death, or it could be through divorce or that type of loss - so the program would offer supports and help them to learn how to grieve in a way that would be helpful for children as we know children grieve differently from adults."
Kish says they are excited to hit the ground running.
"We are so excited and we can't wait to get started with this new program. We're hoping to get it up and running as soon as possible, we do need to get some facilitators in the training program that we are looking at offering. The program will be specifically geared towards different ages of children, so we are looking at three different age groups that could be supported by the program."
Handbags for Hospice had another extremely successful year, raising over $140 000 in total for VON.
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