💡 What can you expect from this session?
When facing the loss of a loved one, a child’s grief can be distressing yet silent. Project Kindle is an initiative by HCA Hospice that addresses these unspoken emotional needs, helping children express their emotions and feel supported during this challenging time through tailored interventions.In this session, the speakers will share effective strategies in holding difficult conversations on grief, loss, death and dying with children.
🟢 Who should attend?
This session is open to all.
✨ Meet the speakers
Ms Estelle Lim
Estelle Lim is medical social worker who enjoys working with children, teenagers and their families in navigating challenges of life especially in the areas of mental health, illness, death and dying. She has provided intervention in schools to patients and believes in training and collaborating with other healthcare and education professionals to provide further support for the family system. She believes in building resilience and creating hope within children to ensure their needs are heard and met with care and dignity, even in the most difficult end-of-life experiences they may encounter.
Ms Koh Yuqi
Koh Yuqi is a medical social worker with the Department of Psychosocial Services in HCA Hospice. She is also one of the co-founders of HCA Hospice’s Project Kindle, a ground-up initiative which aims to raise awareness, advocate and support patients and their young children aged 18 years old and below. Her clinical interest lies in childhood grief and loss, grief and bereavement and systemic family practice.
Ms Gracia Lim
Gracia Lim is a social worker and art therapist by training and has served in the health care and social services since her graduation from Social Work, NUS in 1992. She has journeyed with children, adults and families facing life threatening illness and loss at the Children's Cancer Foundation, NUH Children's Medical Institute, and also initiated the SGH Grief Support in the ICUs. She now leads Project Kindle at HCA Hospice, an initiative that aims to raise awareness of childhood grief, and support families and children facing the loss of a parent.
