Community Champions
Everyone has a part to play.
Pallium’s tools and resources help community champions create more supportive environments in their communities for patients, caregivers and their families experiencing serious illness, dying, and grieving.
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What We Do
Pallium equips health care organizations, health care professionals, and community members with the knowledge and tools to provide better palliative care to patients with life-limiting illnesses and their families. Pallium provides resources to community members to help create a wrap-around effect to better support people in the community who may be experiencing serious illness, caregiving, death, or grieving.
Are you ready to launch a Compassionate Community?
Our Compassionate Community Toolkits equip you with essential information, resources, and templates to launch a Compassionate Community and rally people in your community to provide important physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and practical support to patients, families, and caregivers.
Choose the toolkit that’s right for you:
WORKPLACE TOOLKIT
In Development – Coming Soon
FAITH COMMUNITY TOOLKIT
In Development – Coming Soon
Did You Know?
Family caregivers provide more than 80% of care needed by patients with serious illness or long-term conditions.
With Canada’s aging population, the number of caregivers and the support needed from those caregivers is expected to increase.
Compassionate Communities widen the circle of caring and provide much-needed support to patients facing serious illness and death, as well as their caregivers and loved ones.
Quick Facts
Learn from the stories of fellow community champions who have used the Compassionate Community Startup Toolkit to increase the quality of life of people with life-limiting illnesses and their caregivers.
Learn how one engaged community member spearheaded community-wide change using the Compassionate Community Startup Toolkit.
Read Florence's StoryGet in Touch
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Have questions about our tools and resources for community champions? Email us anytime at: info@pallium.ca.
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