Welcome to LUMARA
Grief & Bereavement CareSupporting children, youth, adults, and families impacted by serious illness, grief, and loss.
LUMARA supports life after loss by bringing light to grief and sorrow. We walk alongside children and families in unspeakable moments of trauma and loss – offering evidence based bereavement care that nurtures healing and changes lives.
The holidays can be especially painful for families who are grieving.
But you can show them they’re not alone.
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Bring Hope This Holiday
Bring Hope This HolidayDonate before December 31st and your gift will be DOUBLED to help twice as many families.
100km for Q: Are you up for a challenge?
Join us December 2, 2023 for a rowing event like no other. People just like you are going to row 100km’s while raising funds to support grieving children and families.
Indigenous Wellness | Haida Gwaii
LUMARA will hold space November 23-26, 2023 in Old Masset, Haida Gwaii. Join us for an experience of Connection, Healing & Hope. All are welcome!
Holiday Fundraising Campaign
The holidays can be especially painful for families who are grieving. But you can show them they’re not alone on their path to healing.
Annual Report 2023
Lumara’s 2022-2023 Annual Report highlights our organization’s return to camps, retreats, and in-person programs supplemented by the best of our virtual support and education. It was a year of providing transformative support…
Impact Report Spring 2023
Lumara’s Music Therapist Meaghan Jackson – who has filled Camp Kerry with music since 2007 – has created a whole new camp experience for grieving children, set in the virtual world of Minecraft. Read more in our Spring 2023 Impact Report…
YOU CAN Make a difference
In Canada there is little to no government funding designated for bereavement care, yet it is well documented that unresolved grief can lead to an array of mental health concerns and undesirable outcomes including; anxiety, depression, substance abuse, lateral violence, and more.
For every loss, it is estimated that at least five people will be significantly impacted, yet very few have access to adequate long-term supports.
Every donation to LUMARA is used to help provide support to children, youth, adults, and families impacted by loss and to those living with a serious illness. As a result of people like you, lives are being transformed across Canada.
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