Supporting Bereavement Organizations in Ontario.
If your work brings you in contact with the bereaved, BON can help you help them.
Our Goals
- To encourage information sharing and networking among individuals and organizations who come in touch with grief, bereavement and mourning.
- To increase public awareness of issues of death, dying, and bereavement.
- To identify service gaps on a regional basis and encourage service provision through advocacy and support.
- To support the members of Bereavement Ontario Network and their goals and activities.
Our Land Acknowledgement for Bereavement Ontario Network:
Bereavement Ontario Network recognizes that it’s work, and the work of it’s community partners take place on the traditional Indigenous territories across the province.
We acknowledge that there are 46 treaties and other agreements that cover the territory now called Ontario.
We are thankful to the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people who have cared for these territories since time immemorial and who continue to contribute to the strength of Ontario and to all communities across the province.
Bereavement Ontario Network is honoured to collaborate with Indigenous clients, stakeholders and communities throughout the various territories.
Acknowledging traditional Indigenous territories is one way to recognize contemporary and historical Indigenous presence and land rights. It is a small step towards dismantling the continued impacts of colonialism and undoing Indigenous erasure in our everyday lives.
For more information on the purpose of land Acknowledgements, please see https://native-land.ca/resources/territory-acknowledgement/