A grassroots-led network advancing advocacy, education, and community-based support for people living with sickle cell disease and other blood health disorders, with a focus on immigrant communities across Canada and worldwide, while still open to all.
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Support, resources, and a community that understands.
Find your footing
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Tools and support for the people who show up every day.
Get support
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Be the person who shows up for someone else's hard day.
Offer support
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Help run workshops, campaigns, and events.
Get involved
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Evidence-based, patient-informed collaboration.
Partner with us
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Bring your organization on as a tailored partner.
Explore partnershipGuides, toolkits, educational materials, and plain-language resources, built for patients, families, caregivers, and the people who support them. Free to access, no account required.
Browse all resourcesWhat to know, what to ask, what to expect when living with SCD.
Tools and practical guidance for families and day-to-day caregivers.
Plain-language explainers and shareable workshop kits.
Clinical references and patient-experience materials for care teams.
BHAS Network grew out of a gap. There wasn’t enough culturally grounded support for families navigating sickle cell disease and other blood health disorders across Canada.
We’re patient-led and grassroots, built on the belief that community is the most durable infrastructure for chronic illness. Not a supplement to clinical care. The thing that makes it survivable.
When we say patient, we mean anyone living with a blood health condition — whether newly diagnosed or years in, whether you’re the one carrying the diagnosis or the one showing up for someone who is.
Our storyOur peer support program connects patients, caregivers, and families with people who are navigating this too.
We’re not a helpline. We’re not a chatbot. We’re a real person. We’re a community.
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Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein spent decades figuring out how the body switches hemoglobin on and off. That discovery…
Zoom (link shared after registration)
A practical conversation about explaining chronic fatigue from anemia to people who've never experienced it.
University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine, Saskatoon, SK
A working session with hematology researchers on local data gaps in blood disorder prevalence among…
Zoom (link shared after registration)
Real strategies from parents on getting a new teacher up to speed, fast.
We work out a tailored arrangement with each partner rather than a fixed package, built around what your organization can genuinely offer and what our community actually needs.
Partnership detailsWhether you’re newly diagnosed, years into this, or showing up for someone you love, there’s a place for you here.
