November 1st, 2021 is the inaugural World Compassionate Communities Day! Compassionate Communities focus on whole person care to benefit patients, caregivers, and health care systems. This enhances access to care and strengthens communities’ ability to connect, inform, and protect seniors, people with chronic and advanced disease and their caregivers.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, our communities’ compassion is coming into full relief. Everywhere, citizens are banding together to create support groups for the vulnerable and socially isolated in their communities. Whether it’s checking in by phone, delivering meals and groceries, or creating postcards to distribute in hospitals for patients who cannot see their loved ones, our compassion is mobilized.
If you are interested in working towards making social care a sustainable, lasting movement that continues to support people long after this pandemic is past, here are some ways you can honour World Compassionate Communities Day!
- Join our Compassionate Communities Community of Practice to learn more about initiatives in your area and collaborate with other projects across Ontario: https://www.hpco.ca/compassionate-communities-of-ontario-cop/
- Share your virtual programs with us to be included in the Virtual Compassion Care Community Centre and be offered more broadly: https://www.hpco.ca/virtual-compassion-care-community-centre/
- Enter our Connected by Community Challenge for your chance to win a prize: https://www.hpco.ca/connectedbycommunitychallenge/
- Participate in the World Compassionate Communities Day Online Symposium on November 2nd, 2021, where leaders in Public Health Palliative Care, Compassionate Communities, and related areas will explore contemporary and future issues: https://www.phpci.org/worldccday
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