announcing the Butterfly Box!

We are honoured to announce today that we have partnered with Mom Friends to bring Butterfly Boxes to Ottawa and Gatineau!

Thanks to a generous grant from JustChange Ottawa, Mom Friends will be bringing Butterfly Boxes to our area for bereaved families.  And we've teamed up with Mom Friends to make this happen!

The Butterfly Boxes of Ottawa/Gatineau will:

• Be the first-of-their-kind in our region
• Grow awareness and bust the stigma surrounding pregnancy and infant loss in our community through a card-writing and storytelling project
• Contain thoughtful items and local non faith-based resources to support grieving families, free of cost

Our goals are to:

1. Ensure bereaved families in our community feel that they are acknowledged and supported
2. Grow awareness and address stigma around PAIL through public engagement in card-writing and storytelling projects

But we still need your help!
We would love the help of community to spread the word about these boxes so that families who are experiencing a loss will be able to access them. Thanks for telling others!

We are also looking for help from some key stakeholders to see this project through:

• Are you a member of the birthing community who could help distribute the Butterfly Boxes to families experiencing loss?
• Have you experienced a loss and could recommend a non faith-based book for our reading list?
• Do you have a community space where we could grow awareness and bust stigma around PAIL with our storytelling postcard display next fall?

Please e-mail Mom Friends and let them know how you can help!

Stay Tuned!
In addition to day-to-day operations, Mom Friends is working hard to launch the Butterfly Box Ottawa/Gatineau sometime this fall. We’ll keep you posted on a formal launch date, and provide more details about the Boxes as they come together.

Thank you!
Thank you SO much to our partners at Mom Friends and JustChange for making this happen!

And lets celebrate!
Please join us for #JustDrinks on September 19th at the Heart & Crown in the Byward Market from 7-9 PM to celebrate this $1,000 grant! Here is a link to the Facebook event.