Human Resources committee  Something I'd like to add is bringing up the awareness campaign. I love this idea. I think that when we look at mental health and addiction, when you go back to the root cause of some of those issues, we often see it's grief, many times and most times, I would say. I work at a ho

Human Resources committee  One of the facilitators in my program, her baby died at 21 weeks and she had to have a labour induction to bring the baby out. She received full benefits for the entire year, for a 21-week baby. In my same program, I've had other parents who have gone beyond 40 weeks and then the

Human Resources committee  Yes, miscarriages are from conception to the first 20 weeks of gestation, and then a stillbirth is considered from 20 weeks to full term, or just beyond the due date.

Human Resources committee  Stillbirths.

Human Resources committee  Sudden infant death and SUDC.

Human Resources committee  I don't have the number for SIDS. I do apologize.

Human Resources committee  I can share our statistics from Alberta. Almost 16,000 babies die each year that are documented as miscarriages. When we say “documented”, we know there are actually more. One in four pregnancies will end in a miscarriage in Alberta. We know it's higher than that, because many

Human Resources committee  I'd love a line. I think it would be very valuable to have the the ability to know that you can call and someone is there who can answer your questions, who has been specifically trained and who has the information at hand. It's one person versus contacting department after depar

Human Resources committee  I can speak on our regional bereavement services that are available in the Edmonton area and beyond. Alberta Health Services has helped work with different organizations to create a path for families to make it a little bit easier. One of the things that happens is, when you lo

Human Resources committee  Within our organization we can occasionally get a grant, but usually it's a local grant, from CIBC, TD and those kinds of institutions that can help out. For the most part, families raise funds to help us. At our walk, they ask their families to support us by making a donation in

Human Resources committee  If I had the power, at the point that the baby dies, the doctor, physician, caregiver, midwife, someone would be able to present that information to the system itself.

Human Resources committee  Exactly. We fill out a form and we get our social insurance card for our baby. We get our health care card. Could there not be another system like that where it's just here it is and then it's done? It would be a system where families are given that 12 weeks or 15 weeks, whatev

Human Resources committee  Grief is a journey. This is something we will live with for the rest of our lives. I think for most families 12 to 15 weeks would give some time. Not every family is going to take the entire time given. As Jessica mentioned, going back to work was something that was helpful for

Human Resources committee  I think the one thing I would ask for as a proposal is that if a family decides that they're going to go back to work, the mother, the father, the partner says, “I'm ready to go back to work,” but six months later the grief resurfaces and there's time needed to be off, that would

Human Resources committee  Exactly.