Resource Center

Helpful Websites

Canadian Pediatric Society www.cps.ca

Caring for Kids (CPS) www.caringforkids.cps.ca

American Academy of Pediatrics www.aap.org (health topics menu)

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry www.aacap.org

PEDS (Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status Examples and information regarding PEDS www.pedstest.com

The Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation (Edmonton) www.stollerykids.com

Pacific Children's Heart Network (British Columbia) www.childrensheartnetwork.org

The Children's Heart Society (Edmonton) www.childrensheart.org

Heart Beats - Family Support Network (Calgary) www.heartbeats.ca

Children's Health and Hospital Foundation (Saskatchewan) www.childrenshospitalsask.ca

Circle of Hearts - Family Support Group (Manitoba) www.vchc.ca

Children's Heart Association for Support and Education (Ontario) www.aboutkidshealth.ca

Western Candian Children's Heart Network (Western Canada) www.westernchildrensheartnetwork.ca

Family Support Institute of BC www.familysupportbc.com

iHeartChange (Helping the transition from child to adult cardiology. www.iheartchange.org

The David Foster Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing financial support for non-medical expenses to Canadian families with children in need of life-saving organ transplants.

http://davidfosterfoundation.com/information-for-families-and-social-workers/

Helpful Books & Articials

The Parent’s Guide to Children’s Congenital Heart Defects

What they are, how to treat them, how to cope with them.

By Gerri Freid Kramer and Shari Maurer

Three Rivers Press

# ISBN: 0-609-80775-7

Raising Resilient Children

A Curriculum to Foster Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Children

By Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., & Robert Brooks, Ph.D.

Nobody’s Perfect

Living and Growing with Children Who Have Special Needs

By Nancy B. Miller, PhD., M.S.W

The Parent to Parent Handbook

Connecting Families of Children with Special Needs

By Betsy Santelli, M.Ed., Florence Stewart Nobody’s Perfect