Education for Professionals
Building Trusting Relationships
PAIL Network has prioritized in person visits to Indigenous communities, whenever possible. These visits consist of listening and learning from each other, information sharing, and hosting events, such as beading workshops. We will seek opportunities to co-host these events with Indigenous organizations and communities, and look for ways to continue these visits as we demonstrate our commitment to equitable support for families experiencing pregnancy and infant loss.
If you are interested in organizing an event with PAIL Network in your community, please contact PAIL Network’s Special Projects Coordinator at joanna.burt@sunnybrook.ca
Education for Healthcare and Service Professionals Working in and with Indigenous Communities
We are providing education for healthcare professionals through presentations. These presentations have been adjusted to include the work we have done and plan to do in terms of support for Indigenous families and professionals. These presentations include our Lunch and Learns, Compassionate Care Workshops (CCW), bereavement care and education as well as Indigenous outreach presentations.
For more information on our Compassionate Care Workshops please visit our Opportunities for Education for Professionals page.
Tablet Pilot Program
We have learned that some families may not have the hardware needed to join our online support groups. In response to this, we are distributing tablets to professionals across Ontario who support Indigenous families.
If your organization is interested in participating in this program please contact PAIL Network’s Special Projects Coordinator at joanna.burt@sunnybrook.ca
Resources
Indigenous Regalia – Jingle Dress Dance
Indigenous Regalia – Woman’s Northern Traditional
Approaching an Indigenous healer, elder or medicine person
Indigenous Outreach Report 2021
PAIL Network Indigenous Initiatives: 2022 Report
Printed resources
As part of our collective commitment at PAIL Network to work towards truth and reconciliation by the revitalization of Indigenous languages, we have added 3 Indigenous languages to our printed resources in both our brochures and posters. The new languages included are Ojibwe (Anishnaabemowin), Oji-Cree and Swampy (Omushkego) Cree.
PAIL Network Brochure (free)
PAIL Network provides resources for professionals to reference and share with families experiencing pregnancy or infant loss. All of our resources are written together by professionals and bereaved families. Our printed brochures and booklets are available in the following languages:
- English
- French
- Arabic
- Traditional Chinese
- Tagalog
- Punjabi
- Spanish
- Ojibwe (Anishnaabemowin)
- Oji-Cree
- Swampy (Omushkego) Cree
- Miscarriage: Pregnancy Loss Before 20 Weeks
- Pregnancy After Loss
- Supporting Siblings after Pregnancy or Infant Loss
- Stillbirth: A Guide for Families
- When A Baby Dies in Their First Year of Life (Infant Death)
- A Difficult Choice (Ending a pregnancy)
- Loving and Losing – Loss of a Multiple
To order our resources for the families you care for, please use our online order form. PAIL Network brochures can be ordered at no cost. Booklets can be ordered in quantities of 10 and cost $1.00 per booklet. Please note there is a minimum shipping charge of $6.00 per order and an additional $6.00 per 50 booklets.
Posters
PAIL Network has developed posters for healthcare and service professionals to use in patient facing areas to ease the connection to begin receiving peer support by including a QR code. Families can scan the QR code and be taken directly to our website, where families can review our resources and self-refer to any of our peer support programs.
These posters are also available in Ojibwe (Anishnaabemowin), Oji-Cree and Swampy (Omushkego Cree)
Please consider ordering these posters and brochures to have available for families who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss, at no cost to you.
Click here to order.
Stillbirth Package Postcards
People who experience a stillbirth in Ontario (from 1944 onwards) can now access several documents, including a commemorative document of stillbirth, at no cost, provided by the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement.
PAIL Network is offering the opportunity for health and service professionals to order postcards about this service to ensure they have information available for people who experience a stillbirth. For example, you may want to include these postcards in a bereavement folder or as a handout for families. The postcard describes the package, and has a QR code that will take people directly to the application form. There is no cost to add postcards to your order.
Click here for more information on the Stillbirth Commemorative Package.
Click here to order.
First Responder Resource Card
PAIL Network has developed a business card for first responders in Ontario to provide to people experiencing pregnancy or infant loss as a way to ease the connection to peer support. People can scan the QR code and be taken directly to our website, where they can review our resources and self-refer to any of our peer support programs.
Please consider ordering this resource to have available for people who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss, at no cost to you. The business card also come with a one page information sheet about PAIL Network and all of our supports.
Click here for more information on the First Responder Resource Card.
Click here to order.
