The program utilizes baby lambs (seasonal) or baby bunnies to encourage touch, discussion, and awareness of the cycle of life through the human-animal bond. Since 2001, Lambs for Children has served over 100 families in the Toronto & Durham area, and over 100 families in Prince Edward County and surrounding areas. Programs are held at the Edith Fox Centre in Northport, Prince Edward County, in the Pig House … a wonderful old stone building, previously home to several generations of pigs along with other animals in the early 1900s. It's now a comfortable, peaceful studio environment, overlooking the Bay of Quinte. The surrounding gardens offer nature trails, treasure hunt hiding places, as well as "sit-and-do-nothing" areas.

Each program is delivered by a clinical psychotherapist and trained volunteers who remain with the group throughout its entire series of sessions, ensuring important and non-threatening continuity in what are often discontinuous and shattered lives.

Next Event

Call for information, interviews and dates - 613-476-1128

Location: The Pig House (it's a Studio!), 1931 Northport Road, Prince Edward County

Interviews required for acceptance to program

Early Registration Advised. Please fill out the attached form for the program.

Contact:	Kathleen Foster-Morgan Clinical Member Ontario Society of Psychotherapists
Phone:	613.476.1128
Email:	kathleenfm@willowshore.ca

Lambs for Children Concept

Lambs for Children was conceived by Kathleen Foster-Morgan while presenting a paper at the 1995 Geneva conference Animals and Us, and is based on the human-animal bond, personal research and her work as a Bereavement Therapist and Educator. Specializing in the area of grief and pet loss issues, Kathleen realized that the relationship between animal and human provides the opportunity of directly nurturing the suffering individual, and acts as a catalyst to people in a loss situation by helping them express and project their emotions.

Often after loss, a child may internalize feelings of guilt or feel that they are the cause of the illness, death or divorce; "What have I done wrong?" a child may ask. Children in such circumstances are frequently unable to get the attention and nurturing they need. This is an unfortunate result of the family's necessary and unavoidable focus on their own trauma and grief. A child must learn to live with the loss specific to their situation. They need emotional strength, the ability to express their emotions, and to know that they will get through this.