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Contact information: wp2@kinderpalliatief.nl

Partners

International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN)

ICPCN is a global network seeking to improve acces to children’s palliative care. ICPCN’s network includes members in more than 140 countries. Members have access to ICPCN’s newsletter and online resources including educational content in many languages. ICPCN advocates for access and quality of children’s palliative care with the World Health Organization and other global platforms.

ICPCN

European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)

EAPC is a professional organization “committed to supporting the promotion and development of palliative care throughout Europe and beyond”. Our Center staff frequently attend and present at the EAPC annual conference. In addition they serve in leadership positions and support the administrative work of the EAPC Reference Group for Children and Young People. Our Director, Meggi Schuilling-Otten is currently Chair of the EAPC Reference Group for Children and Young People. This group serves to promote children’s palliative care throughout Europe.

European Association for Palliative Care

Maruzza Foundation

The Maruzza Foundation works to ensure the right to access palliative care for all children who need it. The Maruzza Foundation hosts the Maruzza International Congress in Rome, a major gathering for paediatric palliative care researchers and clinicians.

Maruzza Foundation

Resources

Courageous Parents Network

CPN aims to orient, equip and empower families and others caring for a child with a serious medical condition and provide digital resources and an extensive media library used by families and clinicians.

Center to Advance Palliative Care

The Center to Advance Palliative Care is a US based organization that has supported the growth of palliative care as a specialty clinical service since 1999. Their website offers free resources on pediatric program development, marketing of palliative care, and educational offerings for operations managers and clinicians. Program Development. 

Center to Advance Palliative Care

Childhood Cancer International

CCI is the largest childhood cancer patient support organization, with member organizations in more than 100 countries.

Childhood Cancer International

Together for Short Lives (TFSL)

TFSL is a UK based organization that provides family support (emotional and financial), advocates for children’s palliative care in the UK, and providers resources to clinicians working with children who have life-limiting illnesses. TFSL also hosts an online provider network where clinicians can share expertise with one another.

Research Resources

International News

Don't miss it: EAPC World Congress 2023

An interactive day filled with inspiring speakers.


The EAPC World Congress will take place from 15th – 17th June 2023 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. On Friday June 16th, we  will be talking about pediatric palliative care. Have you already registered? It promises to be an interactive day filled with inspiring speakers. 

Programme

08.00 - 08.45 am - Breakfast with...
We start the day with a breakfast session with Marijke Kars. As a senior researcher she will talk about Advance Care Planning with children and young people, parents and professionals.

09.00 - 10.30 am - Witness to suffering
The first half of the morning will focus on the theme 'Witness to suffering'. Several well-known international speakers will tell you more about:

  • The impact of a child's death on the clinician, by Barbara Sourkes
  • Learning how to respond to suffering, by Stephan Liben
  • The challenge of being vulnerable enough, by Danai Papadatou

11.00 - 12.30 am - Research
Don't miss this! During 6 short presentations you will hear the results of important international research in the field of pediatric palliative care. Such as:

  • A Qualitative Study of How Paediatricians Approach End-of-Life Decision-making for Children with Life-limiting Conditions (Australia)
  • "My Life Is a Mess but I Cope: An Analysis of the Language Children with Life-limiting and Life Threatening Illnesses Use to Describe their Own Condition (UK). 
  • And much more!

1.00 - 2.00 pm - Open lunch meeting of the Task Force
We will begin this open lunch meeting with a Presentation of The Dutch Multi-disciplinary Clinical Practice Guidelines for Paediatric Palliative Care (by Kim van Teunenbroek). Followed by a 15 min discussion and an open meeting, where everyone can network.

2:30 - 4:00 pm - Supporting displaced children
In the afternoon we talk about pediatric palliative care for displaced children.  You'll hear more about:

  • Supporting displaced children with palliative care needs and their families, with Marie Clancy
  • Working with displaced African children with cancer at the end of life, with Claudia Constantino
  • Exploring the palliative care needs of children in refugee settlements in Uganda, with Julia Downing 

4:30 - 6:00 pm - Research
Another 6 short presentations will take place in the afternoon, when you will hear the outcomes of important international research on pediatric palliative care for displaced children. This will include:

  • Developing a Neonatal Referral Pathway to a Specialist Hospice-based Team (UK) and Treatment of Refractory Symptoms
  • Forgoing Hydration and Nutrition in Children at the End of Life (the Netherlands).
  • And much more.

Also, feel free to join us Saturday, June 17, for the breakfast session on Hearing Children's Voices, by Barbara Sourkes (Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University).

We look forward to seeing you there. Register now.


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