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Care Connections
Caring for loved ones is a journey that many Canadians undertake, often without the resources or support they need. Pallium’s Care Connections Program is here to change that.
Empowering caregivers and strengthening community connections
Pallium’s Care Connections Program consists of a suite of resources and activities to support the millions of Canadians who are caring for their family, friends, and members of their communities. These resources are provided for free and are designed to empower every Canadian to support the caregivers in their lives and to help strengthen the important social connections within our communities.
Atlas CareMap Toolkit
A Care Map is a simple, visual diagram of the people involved in providing care to a caregiver and care recipient. It includes family, friends and health care professionals who may provide assistance or support, however big or small. A Care Map allows a person to visualize and easily understand the many different connections between the people involved in caring for someone.
Atlas CareMap Community Workshop Toolkit
The Atlas CareMap Community Workshop Toolkit is a resource for anyone who would like to run a care map workshop in their neighbourhood or community. The toolkit will help increase awareness, understanding, and use of the care map tool and provide information on how it can help caregivers and care recipients.
LEAP™ Carers
LEAP Carers is free online, interactive self-learning course that provides carers with information and resources to help them provide care to their family or friends living with a serious illness. LEAP Carers is ideal for anyone who provides care to a person with a serious illness or for anyone who wants to support a carer.
Webinars
Enabling Canadians to Support Caregivers by Strengthening Care Connections
Explore the Care Connections Program which consists of a suite of resources and activities every Canadian can engage in to support the caregiving journey.
Atlas Care Map Workshop with Compassionate Communities Kingston
Learn how to create an Atlas CareMap, reflect on it, explore areas for additional help and how to share your map to increase your support network.
Atlas CareMap Workshop with the Dorothy Ley Hospice
This workshop is co-hosted by The Dorothy Ley Hospice. Learn how to create your CareMap, reflect on it, explore areas for additional help and how to share your map to increase your support network.
A Culture of Compassion in Canadian Workplaces
A positive workplace culture is critical both for the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.
Enabling Canadians to Support Caregivers by Strengthening Care Connections
Pallium’s Care Connection Program is a free program that includes a suite of resources and activities designed to support and empower those caring for their family, friends and community members.
Funding
The Care Connections Program is supported by a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
Acknowledgement
The Atlas CareMap Toolkit and Atlas CareMap Community Workshop Toolkit includes content that builds on or adapts work by Atlas of Care as part of their Atlas CareMap tool. Atlas of Care has completed extensive research to create the Atlas CareMap tool and Pallium Canada is working to further scale and spread the Atlas CareMap tool by adapting content for the Canadian context and developing new value-added resources to support the use and implementation of the Atlas CareMap tool.
Atlas CareMap is a registered trademark of Atlas of Caregiving. Content contained in this document constitutes a derivative work created with the express authorization of Atlas of Caregiving according to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, the terms of which govern any use of the content contained in this document. All other rights are expressly reserved. All references above to Atlas CareMap are referred to as care map or map.
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Social Connections in Palliative Care - A Module for Health Care Professionals
Social Connections in Palliative Care is a free educational resource for health care professionals to learn about the importance of social connections on patient health outcomes. The module explores the use of the Atlas CareMap as a tool to increase caregiving patients’ social connections.