Ladybird Care Foundation

Ladybird Care Foundation provides bereavement care that supports and empowers grieving families to find hope and purpose once again, creating pathways for healing.

Ladybird Care Foundation seeks to fill the gap in essential bereavement-care services by providing a peer mentoring program to support, care for and empower grieving families to find hope and purpose after the death of a child of any age. Ladybird recruits, trains and supports volunteer peer mentors, with lived experience, to become the human connection of support for parents, carers and extended family members who are newly bereaved.

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2023 Pitch

Funds Raised: $32,100

Parents Wayne and Maree pitched together to raise funds to expand their peer mentor program to families living in rural and regional Queensland. This funding would be used to employ an indigenous specialist consultant for an additional 8 hours per  week and fund transport to regional and remote communities for face-to-face engagement.

The Impact…

Ladybird Care Foundation have utilised the funding to expand their Peer Mentor Program particularly for families living in rural and regional Queensland. 15 new mentors were onboarded and trained and subsequently 15 new bereaved parents were matched with a mentor.

Beneficiary Story: “I have been matched with the most amazing mentor who has helped me through some of my saddest moments, this is my year of 1st without him and through my mentors kindness, their understanding of how I'm feeling in that moment. I have come to accept my grief is normal, I'm okay, and I will get through the initial pain and change my grief into a celebration of my beautiful son.”

Learn more about Ladybird Care Foundation

https://www.ladybirdcare.org.au/

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