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Programs & Services

Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Service (CHAPS)

A comprehensive palliative care service, including a community-based hospice, for children with life limiting illnesses and their families. The pediatric palliative care service provides an extra layer of support to the child and family, along with their primary teams, throughout the child's illness trajectory. Grief and bereavement support for parents and siblings is also provided.

This service provides support to children with life limiting illnesses and their families, including:

  • an interdisciplinary team offering support around new diagnoses of life threatening conditions, difficult decision-making, anticipatory grief support and collaboration in comprehensive care planning
  • consultative support for care of the dying child in hospital, hospice or community
  • Rotary Flames House, a palliative care facility which offers respite, symptom management and end of life care in a home-like setting
  • outpatient programming for children and their siblings
  • grief support for bereaved parents of children 17 years and younger

Access
Service Providers May Include
chaplains, child life therapists, doctors, grief support counsellors, health care aides (HCAs), registered nurses (RNs), social workers
Eligibility

Children 17 or younger, with serious illnesses or chronic complex conditions where progression to death, sometime in childhood, could be expected. Pregnant women who are carrying a fetus with a diagnosis of a serious condition.

Referral Needed

Referral required from a health care provider

Service Access

Healthcare providers should consult the Alberta Referral Directory for service referral information.


Service Locations
Also Known As
Acronym
ASSIST, CHaPS
Previous
Palliative Care and Grief Support
Other
Aid for Symptoms and Serious Illness Support Team, Grief Support, Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care, Rotary Flames House