Compassionate Ottawa

"Compassion and Action: How Ottawa's Front-line Workers are Dealing with Dying, Death, Loss & Grief," featuring Wendy Muckle and Anne Marie Hopkins of Ottawa Inner City Health went LIVE today! A recording of the 80-minute event is available to watch here, in case you were not able to join us this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6QiaWLvHpk

"As individuals continue to cope with changes in their work life and their place of work, employers need to provide new and different supports for their employees. They will be looking for resources and ideas that address emerging areas of change in their organizations. One of the keys to providing support is simple, but not necessarily easy to achieve: communications and conversations. How to communicate understanding and support and how to initiate difficult conversations with employees who may have experienced deep personal losses." https://www.obj.ca//compassionate-Ottawa-creating-compassi

Compassion and Action: How Ottawa’s Front-line Workers are Dealing with Dying, Death, Loss & Grief is going live on the Compassionate Ottawa YouTube channel today at 10:00am! Click the link below to tune in: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC35hBGbBRzX26uYdQ-yRWow

"Very few people know how to listen to a grieving person without in some way trying to shut down or control the strong emotion."

End of Life Care is Everyone’s Responsibility is now live on the Compassionate Ottawa YouTube channel! Click the link below to tune in now: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC35hBGbBRzX26uYdQ-yRWow

In this HELP Ottawa update, a staff member of South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre reflects on the ways that the pandemic has highlighted the inextricable link between individual and community needs