Resource and links
Here are our picks of resources and links for families caring for a child with a brain tumour. As many belong in more than one category, browse around.
Check out our new Staying Connected handbook which provides you with information on how to communicate with your child with special needs. Special thanks to the TI Group for all their help in creating this wonderful resource. 
Support
- Childhood Cancer Foundation of Canada Providing information, resources and support to families, children and teens living with cancer. 1-800 363-1062 or 416-489-6440 Ontario Parents Advocating for Children with Cancer.
- Families of Children with Cancer is a volunteer organization devoted to education, support, and advocacy for families living with the effects of childhood cancer who are (or were) treated at the Haematology/Oncology Program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). We serve families who are in treatment, off treatment or bereaved. The support group meets Wednesday evenings on 8A. They maintain a Family Resource Library at SickKids. Their website has an excellent set of web resources on cancer.
- The mission of Gilda’s Club is to provide a meeting place where men, women and children living with cancer, as well as their families and friends, can join with others to build social and emotional support as a supplement to their treatment of choice. Gilda’s Club offers support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events in a non-residential, home-like setting.
- Teens Living With Cancer A site for teens with cancer who have lots of living to do! You’ll get straight information - we know what it’s like. All pictures and stories are of real teens with cancer. You can connect with others like yourself. Your friends will see what you really need. Your family will learn how to get a grip.
- For seriously ill children and the people who love and care for them, who seek support from organizations that can provide respite from the day-to-day stress of serious illness, the Starlight Children's Foundation is the non-profit organization that provides innovative, creative and fun entertainment therapies that bring lasting joy and enrichment to the lives of seriously ill children and their families.
For the Children
- Songs of Love A non-profit organization that will write and record a song personally for seriously ill children. This is a free service, sponsored by donations. This will make your child smile!
- Super Sibs!
To honour, support and recognize brothers and sisters of children with cancer. This is for children from the United States and Canada between the ages of 4 and 18 with a sibling who has been diagnosed with cancer.
Grieving
- Grieving Bereaved Families of Ontario 1-800-236-6364 We can help the healing begin.
- Caring for Other People in Grief (COPING) An eight-week program of education and group support for those who are grieving. BBC in Brampton 905-790-6620