The Compassionate Friends is an international self-help, non-profit organization, offering friendship, understanding, grief education and HOPE for the future to all bereaved parents. 

Our purpose is to aid in the positive reconciliation of grief and foster the physical and emotional health of bereaved parents and their surviving children. Our Objective is to help those in their community, including family, friends, co-workers, employers and professionals, to be supportive.

Supporting someone whose child has died is difficult for anyone to contemplate. The loss is so enormous the we have few words of comfort to offer. Though you won't be able to change the way a grieving parent feels by what you say or do, you will add immeasurable comfort to their lives by simply being there.

The age of a child at the time of death doesn't seem to matter; the searing pain and inconsolable agony seem to be the same. However, complications in the bereavement can occur as the result of developmental issues relevant at the time of death

• The Compassionate Friends was founded in Coventry England in 1969
• The first Chapter in North America was established in 1972
• The first Chapter was established in Canada in 1977
• The Medicine Hat Chapter was established in 1984

Our Vision - 

“That everyone who needs us will find us and everyone who finds us will be helped.”

"Grief becomes a tolerable and creative experience, only when love enables it to be shared with someone who truly understands." ~ Rev. Simon Stephens (Founder TCF)