Catherine Stem

Widowed by cancer in 2012 with 3 young children, Catherine earned her Bachelor of Education degree in 2013 with a focus on educating students and education workers on supporting grieving children in the school system within the YCDSB.
She earned her Children’s Grief Certificate through Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto and has also facilitated the Parenting Grieving Kids group for the Hummingbird
Centre for Hope, a foundation that supports widowed families in Canada. By using art and the written word, Catherine has developed a workshop that reminds us that there is always light in the darkness, we just have to look for it, and find ways to keep it with us through our grief journey.