Alberta Resources

Carry You With Me

Based in the Calgary area, Carry You With Me is the organization behind the Carry You With Me Storybook. The book shares one mother’s personal journey in an effort to discuss pregnancy and baby loss. The organization also offers an online community, a shop with bereavement items, and a paid grief program about life after loss.

Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre

PILSC provides grief counselling, alternative healing modalities such as reiki and meditation, one-on-one peer mentoring, support groups for various types of loss, and a pregnancy loss support line at 1-888-910-1551.

Moss Postpartum House

The on-staff psychologist and social worker are able to support bereaved parents working through perinatal loss. Contact 587-327-3980 or visit mosspostpartum.com for more details. 

Bonnyville

Footprints

This group is for both men and women dealing with infertility, pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and neonatal death. Meetings are at 7:00pm once a month, located at Dragonfly Counselling and Support Centre (4808A 50 Avenue). Contact 780-812-3174, 780-815-0265, or blaisethetrail@gmail.com, or visit blaisehunter.com for more details.

Fort McMurray

Some Other Solutions

This group provides support for bereaved parents who have experienced the death of a baby due to early pregnancy loss or stillbirth, or in the first few months of life. Meetings are free but require registration and are held at 9908 Manning Avenue on the last Wednesday of every month at 7:00–9:00pm. For details, call 780-743-8605 or visit someothersolutions.ca/contact.

Fort Saskatchewan

Angel Whispers

This group is for families grieving pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and neonatal death. To register and find out about meeting times, contact 780-998-5595 x225. You can also contact 780-974-7054 or angelwhispers@familiesfirstsociety.ca, or visit angelwhispersbabyloss.com for more details.

Grande Prairie

Tiny Hands of Hope

This group is for families grieving pregnancy loss, stillbirth, neonatal death, and baby loss up to 24 months. Meetings are at 7:00pm on the second Sunday of every month, at Forbes Presbyterian Church (9635 76 Avenue). Contact tinyhandsofhope@gmail.com or visit tinyhandsofhope.ca for more details.

Red Deer

H.E.A.R.T.S. (Helping Empty Arms Recover Through Sharing)

H.E.A.R.T.S. is for anyone touched by the loss of a precious baby during pregnancy or any time after birth. Programming includes individual and family counselling, pregnancy after loss support, sibling support, community resources, and community events.

Meetings are on the second Thursday of every month, located at Red Deer Primary Care Network (5120 47 Street). Contact 403-343-9100 or contact hearts@rdpcn.com for more details.

Sherwood Park

Angel Whispers

This group is for families grieving pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and neonatal death. Meetings are held on the first Sunday of every month. To register, email angelwhispersbabyloss@gmail.com or visit angelwhispersbabyloss.com for more details.

The Compassionate Friends

This group is for families dealing with the death of a child at any age. The group also offers the Annual Candle Light Memorial Service on the second Sunday of each December, which coincides with the Annual World Wide Candle Light Memorial Service.

Currently meetings are held every other Tuesday night online due to COVID-19; however, when in-person meetings are back in place, the group will meet at the BriarPatch Family Life Education Centre. Ask the facilitators for the meeting location, as there are two grief meeting spaces in the complex. Contact 780-464-3217 or briarpatchkids@shaw.ca for more details.

H.E.A.R.T.S. (Helping Empty Arms Recover Through Sharing)

H.E.A.R.T.S. is for anyone touched by the loss of a precious baby during pregnancy or any time after birth. Programming includes individual and family counselling, pregnancy after loss support, sibling support, community resources, and community events.

Meetings are held at the BriarPatch Family Life Education Centre. Contact the facilitators for the meeting location, as there are two grief meeting spaces in the complex. Contact 780-464-3217 or heartsbabyloss@shaw.ca, or visit heartsbabyloss.com for more details.

Wetaskiwin

The Art of Healing

This group is for mothers grieving pregnancy loss or stillbirth. Meetings are at 7:00pm on the first Wednesday of every month. Contact 780-352-3331 or artofhealing17@gmail.com for more details and to register.