Candy McVicar is the Founder and Executive Director of Missing GRACE Foundation
which is an International support organization serving to help families on their
journey through pregnancy and infant loss, infertility and adoption. She personally
experienced tragedy in her life, when her daughter Grace was stillborn. The health
reports revealed a healthy baby with a cord issue. Candy had expressed concern
about lack of movement for two weeks but the physicians did not consider it necessary
to induce early...if they had, it was determined that Grace would have lived.
After some time, she and her husband decided to pursue a domestic adoption which
was unsuccessful because the birth-mother decided to keep the baby. Later she
also dealt with infertility and she found that the support she needed was simply
not available for these related but separate grief issues. She made a commitment
to help others through the grief and pain she had known and to bring about awareness
of these issues and thus formed The Missing GRACE Foundation to aid individuals
as they Grieve, Restore, Arise, Commemorate and Educate.
She is the the Spokesperson for The Pregnancy Institute and partners with the
Institute in helping save lives through their campaign for awareness and prevention
of stillbirth.
Candy has captured the hearts and minds of many with her engaging and personable
style. She delivers her messages on GRACE, marriage survival, male/female grief,
facilitating support groups, and many other topics with a candor and sincerity
which people can relate to so well. She has lectured across the country at hospitals,
clinics, universities, churches and conferences. She is a frequent guest on, radio,
and Internet Web sites, where she continues to advocate for compassionate health
care, stillbirth prevention and providing quality resources and support for bereaved,
infertile and adoptive families.
She, her husband Stephen, and daughter Tatum live in the Twin Cities.
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