Awareness

CHPCA hosts several national campaigns to raise awareness of hospice palliative care in Canada and advocate for quality palliative care. Increased awareness of palliative care improves knowledge of and access to services.  

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Recent Campaign 

Advanced Care Planning Day – April 16th, 2024 

What would happen if you couldn’t make decisions for yourself? Who would you trust to make healthcare decisions for you? On Advance Care Planning Day ask yourself: If not you, who? 

Upcoming Campaign

National Hospice Palliative Care Week May 4-10, 2025 

Raise awareness and foster communities that value the incredible support palliative care can offer. Learn more about what palliative care can do and spread the word! When it comes to navigating life’s most challenging times, palliative care is for you.

CHPCA Awareness Campaigns

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Campaign

Hike for Hospice Palliative Care 

A unique national fundraising event that brings together organizations working in hospice palliative care to raise funds and awareness in their community! 

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Campaign

National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day 

A day to raise awareness of the importance of pediatric hospice palliative care and improve the quality of living and dying for infants, children and youth and their families.  

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Campaign

National Grief and Bereavement Day  

On this day we ask Canadians to engage in a national dialogue to identify and support access to necessary resources for grief and bereavement. 

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Your Donations Matter

As a registered charity, CHPCA continues to advocate for accessible, quality hospice palliative care across the country. We do this so that one day, everyone in Canada with a life-limiting illness can access care that reduces suffering when they need it most. Your support is essential to this work.

CHPCA News

  • Press Release

    CHPCA Open Letter to Canada’s Federal Political Parties

    The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA) urges all political parties to commit to making access to high-quality, equitable palliative care a national priority.

  • Press Release

    Abstract Submission is Now Open for the 2025 CHPCA Conference

    Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 CHPCA conference.

  • Press Release

    WHPCA Board Member and CHPCA CEO Laurel Gillespie Advocates for Global Access to Palliative Care at WHO Executive Board Meeting

    CHPCA proudly shares that CEO Laurel Gillespie, trustee of the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA), attended the 156th session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO).