SANDS (Qld) Inc. provides a range of services to parents,
families, healthcare professionals and workers in allied industries.
Support Services
Bereaved parents often find the need to talk
to someone who has had an experience similar to their own.
SANDS offers 24 hour support services via telephone
and email as well
as regular support
meetings, including regional
support.
Memorial Services are conducted twice a year.
One service is held in October for Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Awareness and the other service is a non-denominational Christmas
Service. Parents, family and friends are invited to participate
in the Memorial Services.
A number of booklets and pamphlets have been
produced for bereaved parents, health care professionals,
friends, family and others. The pamphlets and booklets are
available from the SANDS office. Some of the topics covered
– Fathers Grief, Couple Grief, A New Pregnancy, Family
and Friends.
Bereaved parents often find the need to talk
to someone who has had an experience similar to their own.
SANDS offers 24 hour support services via telephone and email
as well as regular support meetings, including regional support.
Further information on all of these services
can be gained by contacting the SANDS office on 07 3254 3422
or sandsqldinc@bigpond.com.au.
Mission Statement
SANDS (Qld) Inc. provides mutual support, information, education
and advocacy for parents and their families who experience the death of their
baby to miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death and other reproductive losses.
