Berwick, N.S., March 6, 2026 — Annapolis Valley Regional Library (AVRL) and Valley Hospice Foundation (VHF) are pleased to announce a new Grief Literacy Collection, now available to SamePage borrowers across Nova Scotia. There are a variety of kits in the collection, designed to foster connection, conversation, and understanding about grief and loss in our lives – for people of all ages. Funding for the collection was provided to VHF through a Healing Pathways Community Fund Grant, an initiative of the Nova Scotia Hospice & Palliative Care Association (NSHPCA).
Grief affects us all
“All of us, and sometimes at a young age, experience grief and loss in our lives. And isolation is perhaps the worst part of people’s experience. We want to help close that gap,” shares Terri Milton, Volunteer Librarian, VHF Grief Library. Enter the Grief Literacy Collection. “We’re pleased to have received an NSHPCA grant, enabling us to provide these kits to individuals and Book Club groups, to encourage learning, talking, and sharing experiences.”
Community members can borrow kits from any of the 8 SamePage regional libraries in Nova Scotia, thanks to this partnership with AVRL. “We are grateful to partner with AVRL on this collection,” says Milton. “Without their support for these inter-regional loans, we would not reach as many communities as we would like. AVRL has been vital to our vision of community grief literacy.”
Free resources available
The kits can be loaned to any SamePage borrower in Nova Scotia using their library card. The kits were curated by a grief advisory group, and cover a range of life and grief experiences. Borrowers do not need to be acutely experiencing grief to benefit from these materials.
Find the Grief Literacy Collection here
- 12 Book Club in a Bag kits for adults to meet and discuss. Two of these kits feature selections of children’s picture books about grief and loss – for adults to share;
- Kids’ Grief kits with a selection of books for toddlers/early elementary age children;
- Kids’ Grief kits featuring books for young readers;
- Teens’ Grief kits;
- Pregnancy loss kits;
- Infant loss kits.
Contact the Grief Library
Email: library@valleyhospice.ca Ph: 902-690-2194
