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Compassionate Communities - 13 Charter Items

These 13 charter items represent a framework by which we can develop goals or categorize existing services.

Please click on a charter item to learn more about existing programs in Thunder Bay!

Item #1

Our schools will have annually reviewed policies or guidance documents for dying, death, loss and care.

Item #2

Our workplaces will have annually reviewed policies or guidance documents for dying, death, loss and care.

Item #3

Our trade unions will have annually reviewed policies or guidance documents for dying, death, loss and care.

Item #4

Our churches and temples will have at least one dedicated group for end of life care support.

Item #5

Our city’s hospices and nursing homes will have a community development program involving local area citizens in end of life care activities and programs.

Item #6

Our city’s major museums and art galleries will hold annual exhibitions on the experiences of aging, dying, death, loss or care.

Item #7

Our city will host an annual peacetime memorial parade representing the major sectors of human loss outside military campaigns – cancer, motor neuron disease, AIDS, child loss, suicide survivors, animal companion loss, widowhood, industrial and vehicle accidents, the loss of emergency workers and all end of life care personnel, etc.

Item #8

Our city will promote compassionate communities programs to engage neighbourhoods and local streets in direct care activities for their local residents living with health crisis, aging, caregiving, and grief.

Item #9

Our city will create an incentives scheme to celebrate and highlight the most creative compassionate organization, event, and individual/s. The scheme will take the form of an annual award administered by a committee drawn from the end of life care sector. A ‘Mayors Prize’ will recognize individual/s for that year those who most exemplify the city’s values of compassionate care.

Item #10

Our city will publicly showcase, in print and in social media, our local government policies, services, funding opportunities, partnerships, and public events that address ‘our compassionate concerns’ with living with ageing, life-threatening and life-limiting illness, loss and bereavement, and long term caring. All end of life care-related services within the city limits will be encouraged to distribute this material or these web links including veterinarians and funeral organizations.

Item #11

Our city will work with local social or print media to encourage an annual city-wide short story or art competition that helps raise awareness of ageing, dying, death, loss, or caring.

Item #12

All our compassionate policies and services, and in the policies and practices of our official compassionate partners and alliances, will demonstrate an understanding of how diversity shapes the experience of aging, dying, death, loss and care – through ethnic, religious, gendered, and sexual identity and through the social experiences of poverty, inequality, and disenfranchisement.

Item #13

We will seek to encourage and to invite evidence that institutions for the homeless and the imprisoned have support plans in place for end of life care and loss and bereavement.

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