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Linkedin: @JA Hope4Kids

Contact

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

Paediatric Palliative Care & Paediatric Oncology

The annual meeting European Society for Paediatric Oncology. 


In 2022 the European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOP Europe) launched a multidisciplinary Palliative Care Working Group, led by palliative paediatric oncologist Ana Lacerda (who also chairs our Reference Group).

This year’s Annual Meeting happened in Valencia, Spain, from 8 to 12 May, and the main Plenary session was given by Dr Michael McNeill, Director of the Dept. of Palliative Care at the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, USA: Improvement Science in Pediatric Oncology – Thinking Beyond the Clinical Trial. It was followed by a joint session led by the by the parents' group, Grieving and Loss – Speaking about the unspeakable.

The group was also responsible for a session about Early vs. Late Palliative Care, during which an informative flyer was launched. This is already being translated into several European languages, to facilitate spreading the message.

The group is also involved in other SIOP Europe educational activities, like educational courses and the review of the standards of care for children with cancer.

Make sure to check the group’s page soon - you can apply to become a member and download the flyer


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