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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

The Giro d'Italia of Pediatric Palliative Care 2023

A brief review of these special days.


From the 15th May to the 19th of June 2023 the Maruzza Foundation oversaw the coordination of the second edition of the Giro d'Italia of Pediatric Palliative Care (GPPC) a nation-wide awareness campaign aimed at promoting a positive perception of children’s palliative care in the general public and to raise awareness of the urgent need to develop paediatric palliative care services and networks throughout Italy, predominantly among local policy makers and healthcare providers. 

During the 2023 initiative, in addition to 50 family-centred sporting, cultural, recreational events involving over 150 local organisations in 17 regions, a series of 13 workshops focused on dispelling the fallacies and misconceptions linked to palliative care and incurable illness in children were organised. 

5.Giro PPC Roma

This dynamic initiative was conceived and supported by the ever-growing community of healthcare professionals and caregivers providing paediatric palliative care in Italy who came together with the Maruzza Foundation to strengthen and unite their efforts to stimulate much needed changes in care provision that can generate tangible improvements to the lives of children with serious illness and their families.

Silvia Lefebvre D’Ovidio, President of the Maruzza Foundation and member of the EAPC Reference Group Children & Young People, commented:  

We hope that the positive impact of this initiative will continue onward and upwards until every baby, child and adolescent with palliative care needs can access dedicated and effective care provision regardless of their area of residence.  In fact, following its success in Italy, we are keen to extend this edifying project beyond the Italian regions, to link up with colleagues in other EU countries to develop a project to propose to the European Commission for funding. Anyone interested can contact us, we are happy to share our strategies with them.

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