 |
||
 |
||
|
|
Mission, Impact & Values Mission
Project Compassion creates community and provides support for people living with serious illness, caregiving, end of life and grief. As people live with a diagnosis, go through treatment, move into
survivorship or journey through end of life, Project Compassion helps
people have the resources, support, and hope they need to live life to the
fullest every day. ·
Volunteer
Support Teams provide practical, emotional, and spiritual support for people who
need help with caregiving so individuals and families will not have to cope
alone.
Using a team approach, community volunteers pool their talents,
creativity, and time to offer much more caregiving support than one volunteer
can provide alone. This service is
offered at no cost to the recipients. Since 2002, 80
Support Teams with 625 volunteers have provided 15,000 hours of volunteer
support for 250 individuals. ·
Workshops,
events, tools, and resources
help people gain the knowledge and support they need to care for themselves and
for others.
Engaging programs and resources help people with the physical, emotional,
spiritual, and practical aspects of serious illness, caregiving, end of life,
and grief. Project
Compassion hosts a resource center,
a printed resource guide, and a website: www.project-compassion.org.
Over 2500 individuals participate in community engagement events and
request resources annually. ·
Advance
care planning helps people understand and communicate end-of-life care choices
so that their wishes will be honored and relationships strengthened. Advance
Care Planning helps people anticipate
future health care choices, talk with family members, health care providers,
attorneys, and clergy about end of life decisions, and put decisions in writing.
Project Compassion has a network of 125 volunteer facilitators and offers
resources and educational events to help more than 2000 people locally each year
with health care decisions. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Last Acts Program recognized
Project Compassion’s Support Team Initiative as 1 of 3 model programs in 2003. The National Council on Aging and the MetLife Foundation selected
Project Compassion’s Support
Team Initiative as 1 of 8 model programs in 2004. The Sunday New York Times featured Project Compassion’s workbook
“Passing on Thoughtfully” in 2005. Over
4000 copies have been distributed internationally.
Desired
Impact Project Compassion
seeks to create the following impact: ·
All people
can freely discuss illness, death and grief as a natural part of life. ·
People
receive emotional, practical, and spiritual support through illness, end of
life, and grief. ·
Caregivers
are educated, honored, and supported. ·
Individuals
understand, anticipate, and communicate their end of life care choices. ·
Patients,
caregivers, professionals, and organizations are engaged in creating a continuum
of care at the end of life. Values Project
Compassion’s core values shape our organizational decisions and serve as
guideposts in our work: ·
We recognize
the fundamental dignity of each and every human being. ·
We value and
respect the diversity of beliefs, choices, and gifts of individuals and
community groups. ·
We seek to
embrace death as a natural and integral part of life. ·
We advocate
for integrative and creative approaches to healing. ·
We recognize
the value of community in support of the human spirit.
At Project Compassion, we believe "It's About how You Live!"
|
|
