Bernie’s Buddies
Bernie's Buddies is a registered charity helping kids and youth live more fully after a death loss. Bernie's Buddies provides an integrated workshop peer support model where kids living with a loss can interact and share with each other while engaging in unique activities available at each session:
a therapy dog visit,
yoga movement and relaxation techniques, and
creative grief conversation.
Grief Matters is working to increase awareness of grief so that we all can better support ourselves, others, and our communities. The co-founders are Susan Cadell and Mary Ellen Macdonald. May Ellen is an anthropologist and Professor in Palliative Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She holds the J & W Murphy Foundation Endowed Chair in Palliative Care. Susan is a social work researcher at Renison University College in Waterloo, Ontario.
