Grief and bereavement support services
Our grief and bereavement support is included in our broader support framework. Our aim is to provide comprehensive care for our patients and carers.
We encourage you to reach out to us for support. Our services include:
- Emotional Support & Counselling: Our Blood Cancer Support Coordinators (BCSCs) provide emotional and counselling support. Sessions can be provided over the phone or face to face in some locations.
- G&B Facebook Group: This group is an Australian Facebook community for people experiencing grief and bereavement in relation to blood cancer. It is moderated by our BCSCs, providing a supportive online community.
To access this support contact us on 1800 620 420 or complete our application form:
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Additional resources for grief and bereavement support
For comprehensive support, a Leukaemia Foundation healthcare professional can assist with emotional support and connect you with specialised external organisations across Australia.
- Palliative Care Australia: Palliative Care Australia is a national organisation that supports and advocates for palliative care services and consumers.
- Carer Gateway: Carer Gateway is a national network of service providers that connect carers with emotional and practical support.
- Griefline: Provides free and confidential counselling to people experiencing grief and loss across Australia, including remote, regional, rural, and metropolitan regions. Helpline operates seven days a week (6 am to midnight AEST).
- Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement: Offers online, telephone, and face-to-face bereavement counselling to individuals, children, and families who need assistance following the death of a loved one. Free for Victorians.
- MyGrief App: Provides information, tools, and resources for families and friends on how best to support someone after a loss. Available for Android and iOS users.
- Canteen: Provides free & tailored support to young people aged 12-25 who are impacted by cancer.
- Redkite:Provides support for families facing childhood cancer.
- Rare Cancers Australia
- National Centre for Childhood Grief.
- Feel the Magic – Empowering children to thrive from grief.
- The Compassionate Friends Victoria (TCFV): Offers bereavement support for grieving parents, siblings, and grandparents in the event of the death of a child from any cause and at any age.
- National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG): Independent, not-for-profit charity providing free grief and loss support services across NSW via telephone or face-to-face support and counselling.
- Bereavement Care Centre (BCC): Offers bereavement counselling and support services for the terminally ill and their families.
- Canberra Grief Centre (CGC): Offers grief counselling services to support grief, bereavement, and trauma due to loss.
- Very Special Kids: Provides emotional support and counselling for families who have experienced a child’s death, including respite, end-of-life, and after-death care. Support line at (03) 9804 6253.
- Mercy Grief Services (MGS): Specialist bereavement counselling service for individuals and families in western metropolitan Melbourne.
- Hope Bereavement Care: Not-for-profit organisation based in Geelong offering free information, support, and counselling for those grieving the death of a child, an adult’s unexpected death, and loss after suicide.
- The Compassionate Friends (CF): Provides support for families grieving the death of a child of any age, from any cause.
- Centacare: Catholic organisation providing counselling services in Brisbane for families dealing with various issues, including grief and loss.
- StandBy support: Community-based program providing support for people bereaved by suicide.
- Suicide Bereavement Support: The government of the Northern Territory provides a list of agencies offering support and counselling for those bereaved by sudden death or suicide.
- The Grief Centre of Western Australia: Provides grief counselling and support for people experiencing grief from any type of loss.
- Solace Grief Support WA: Supports those grieving the loss of a partner, spouse, or fiancee.
- Bereavement Counselling SA: Provides a list of bereavement counselling services and support across the state.
- GriefLink: GriefLink provides information for people who are dealing with grief.
- The Trauma and Grief Network (TTGN): Connects people to resources focused on the care of children and teens affected by trauma, loss, and grief.
- Bereavement Care Network Tasmania (BCNT): Links grief counsellors to those who need help across Tasmania.
- Beyondblue: Offers free one-on-one counselling services over the phone. Contact their service at 1300 22 4636, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Kids Help Line: Free counselling for kids aged 5-25, 24/7.
- Mens Help Line: Professional support and advice for men. They can be called on 1300 789 978, 24/7.
- Relationships Australia: Provides free information and support for grief and loss.
- Cancer Council: Provides support for families who lose someone to cancer, including palliative care and bereavement resources.
- Lifeline: If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
- Suicide Call Back Service: Call 1300 659 467.
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Blood Cancers A-Z
A
AA secondary amyloidosis
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia ALL
Acute myeloid leukaemia AML
Acute myelomonocytic leukaemia AMML
Acute promyelocytic leukaemia APML
Afib mutated fibrinogen alpha chain amyloidosis
AL systemic amyloidosis
Amyloidosis
Aplastic anaemia AA
ATTR familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
ATTR wild type senile amyloidosis
B
Biphenotypic leukaemia
Bisphosphonates myeloma
C
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia CLL
Chronic myeloid leukaemia CML
H
Hairy cell leukaemia
Hodgkin lymphoma
I
IgA myeloma
IgG myeloma
J
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukaemia JMML
L
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis LCH
Leukaemia
Light chain myeloma
Lymphocyte depleted HL
Lymphocyte rich HL
Lymphoma
M
MDS with biallelic TP53 inactivation MDS-biTP53
MDS with fibrosis
MDS with hypoplastic MDS-h
MDS with increased blasts MDS-IB1
MDS with increased blasts MDS-IB2
MDS with low blasts MDS-LB
MDS with low blasts and isolated 5q deletion MDS-5q
MDS with low blasts and SF3B1 mutation MDS-SF3B1
Mixed cellularity HL
Monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance MGUS
MPN Chronic eosinophilic leukaemia CEL
MPN Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia CMML
MPN Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia CMML
MPN Chronic neutrophilic leukaemia CNL
MPN Essential thrombocythaemia ET
MPN Polycythaemia Rubra vera PV
MPN Primary myelofibrosis MF
MPN Systemic mastocytosis SM
Multiple myeloma
Myelodysplasia Myelodysplastic neoplasms MDS
Myeloma
Myeloid sarcoma localised leukaemia
Myeloproliferative neoplasms MPN
N
NHL Adult T-Cell leukaemic ATLL
NHL Anaplastic large cell ALCL
NHL Burkitt’s
NHL Cutaneous T-Cell
NHL Diffuse large B-cell DLBCL
NHL Double hit DHL
NHL Follicular
NHL Lymphoplasmacytic Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia WM
NHL MALT
NHL Mantle cell
NHL Marginal zone
NHL Peripheral T-Cell
NHL Primary cutaneous B-cell
NHL Primary mediastinal B-cell PMBCL
NHL Small lymphocytic SLL
NHL Subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-Cell
NHL T-Lymphoblastic
NHL Waldenstroms macroglobulinaemia
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Nodular lymphocyte predominant HL
Nodular sclerosing HL
O
Osteosclerotic myeloma
P
Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
Plasmacytoma localised myeloma
POEMS syndrome
R
Richter’s syndrome leukaemia
S
Smouldering indolent myeloma
Solitary plasmacytoma myeloma
Systemic mastocytosis