Spiritual Care

Our spiritual health practitioners offer spiritual care for children and their families affected by illness or injury.

About

A child's illness or injury can be one of life's most distressing experiences. Watching a child or teenager suffer is, for many, an unbearable strain. It raises many intense emotions and often painful questions:

"Why my child?"
"How do I cope?"
"Does anyone care?"
"Where is God when it hurts?"
"What does this mean?"
"How can I keep going?"

We provide spiritual care to help you explore these questions and others. Our spiritual health practitioners are able to:

offer comfort and compassion
listen to your story
support you in your journey
help with ethical dilemmas you may be facing
offer spiritual support and prayer if you wish
help you plan special services
contact a local minister or spiritual leader

Watch a video to learn more about Spiritual Care at BC Children's Hospital.

Contact us

A spiritual health practitioner is available 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday—please call paging at 2161 and ask for the Spiritual Care Practitioner on call. Outside of regular hours, from Monday to Friday a team of on-call spiritual health practitioners responds to emergencies from 5:00pm-8:00pm; and on weekends only emergencies from 8:00am-8:00pm.

Please ask a nurse or staff person to page us, or leave a message at our office. We are able to visit you in our office or any other area of the hospital.

Other locations

Sacred Space: BC Women's Hospital, 2nd floor corridor

BC Children's Hospital
Room 2B69
4500 Oak Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1

Our practitioners

We are specially trained and experienced in supporting children and teens, and their families during times of stress. Our spiritual health practitioners are trained and certified by the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC).

The spiritual health practitioner is a member of your health care team and works closely with them to ensure your spiritual care needs are addressed.

We can help you explain to staff the needs you may have, related to your religious beliefs. It is our belief that spiritual well-being is an important aspect of health and something worth striving for.

Spiritual Health Practitioners

Philip Crowell
Direct line: 604-875-3025
BC Children's Hospital
Room 2C19

Spiritual Health Practitioners

Grace Neudorf and Raj Vannadil
Direct line: 604-875-2753
BC Children's Hospital
Room 2B69
Office hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Spiritual Health Admin Office

604-875-2345 Ext 4029
BC Children's Hospital
Room 2B70

Resources

Chapel/Sacred Space & Quiet Room

The Sacred Space, along the 2nd floor corridor of BC Women's Hospital is open as a place of prayer for persons of all faiths and traditions.

Please feel free to use this space whenever you need a few peaceful moments.

Other resources

Canadian Association for Spiritual Care

Niagra Health System - Multi-Faith Resources

Books and written materials for children and adults are available through the Spiritual Care office.

We serve people of many different faiths, and materials from your own tradition may be available. If you need help contacting your own minister or someone of your own religion, faith, or denomination, please speak to the spiritual health practitioner (chaplain).

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