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'The goals of the family direct where we go'
Erin Brandon is one of seven nurse practitioners at Holland Bloorview. She runs two clinics—one for families of children with cerebral ...
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A child who lived in hospital turns advocate to improve care
This is a photo of Emily Chan last summer, when she participated in the Ward Summer Student Program in our research institute. Tonight sh...
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Care for the family shouldn't stop when the child dies
When Bruno Geremia's son Matthew died two years ago, Bruno's sense of loss extended to the people he knew at Holland Bloorview during Mat...
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Community keeps this volunteer coming back
After her daughter Elizabeth was diagnosed with global developmental delay, Jean Hammond immersed herself at Holland Bloorview as a famil...
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From patient to bioethicist, Dolly comes full circle
I met Dolly Menna-Dack in 1999 when we interviewed her as a youth role model in BLOOM (then called Connections). At age three, Dolly, who...
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Instead of changing her child, a mother changes herself
Superbabies Don't Cry is a brilliant essay about how the birth of a child with a chromosome deletion upended one mother's ideas about per...
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Life or death at 11 years old
Today is National Siblings Day. This is a moving and illuminating piece from Jamie Trossman, 12 (right), about a time a year ago when her...
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Rana finds her voice in advocacy
By Rana Nasrazadani“You're not ready for university.”A staff member said this to me in high school, in front of the whole class. Thes...
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School volunteer honours his daughter's memory
I first met Yoonus Mia in 2003. I'd bump into him in the hospital walking beside a child in a helmet, feet strapped onto the pedals of an...
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'We can't fix what we don't know'
Kimberley Siu-Chong (centre) is Holland Bloorview's touchpoint for feedback from families. As client- and family-relations facilitator, s...
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