COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES (CC)::

A Compassionate Community is a community of people who feel empowered to engage with and increase their understanding about the experiences of those living with a serious illness, caregiving, dying, grieving and those who are isolated, marginalized or vulnerable. Community members take an active role in caring for people and to assist those to live comfortably in their homes. Community members also connect people to supports, raise awareness about health, well-being, and end of life issues; and develop the capacity of others in the community. Compassionate Communities compliment health care interventions by paying attention to prevention, detection, harm reduction, and early intervention. Compassionate Communities provide a route map for care in neighbourhoods and alter social environments to improve outcomes

PLACEMENT SUMMARY – COMPASSIONATE COMMUITIES PROJECT COORDINATOR:

HPCO has established a Community of Practice (CoP) network comprised of approximately 25 local Compassionate Communities (CC) initiatives across Ontario. During this placement, students will have the opportunity to work with CoP project members to organize, consolidate and share evidence and knowledge to support CC uptake and adoption; provide mentorship and coordination amongst to CC CoP project members to advance provincial efforts; conduct interviews and collect data and evidence related to CC evaluation and population health impacts; contribute to the development of a provincial tool-kit to support community adoption of the CC model; and provide project management expertise to support the overall work of the CoP.

This role will provide opportunities to work closely with experts in program evaluation and leads of the Compassionate Community movement across Ontario.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

§ Coordination and communication with project collaborators (i.e. project meetings, organizing documents, communicating key messages)

§ Allocation and reminders of tasks to project collaborators

§ Updating and revising the Project Charter along with project progression

§ Summarize current CC related activities and care models

§ Develop strategic partnerships with key stakeholders

§ Provide education, training and knowledge dissemination on CC-related activities and programs to potential new adopters

§ Innovation support for new CC-related ideas/initiatives in early adopter sites, and to measure and publish results

§ Results measurement and reporting

§ Public communications

§ Evaluation

§ Provincial implementation planning

§ Support the launch and updating of a public CC website and community tracker sites for all mature CC sites