Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Draft Mission Statement
The Buddhist Hospice Care Project is a network of people and information focused on providing resources and practical assistance for patients, families and caregivers interested in Buddhist hospice care support in the Toronto area. Focused on providing practical palliative care information to the public and healthcare professionals, we deliver up-to-date resources and contacts as well as opportunities for learning and participating in Buddhist healthcare strategies.
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Great work Helen.
There were many productive discussion around the function of the group.
One discussion was around providing actual care vs. providing a network of care givers.
Though they are very different functions, there is the possibility of both and, in fact, creating a network would actually lend itself to providing programs by facilitators that are linked to our network. This came up in light of the fact that there are care providers in the community that are practicing but are both un-compensated for their work and unknown by those who are in need or interested in their services.
The network itself seems to be a question of linking the resources already there and creating the resources that are not there but for which there is a clear need.
A third sort of fuction of this group is to produce research, and educate care givers and the general public - to basically anyone interested in dialogue around the dying process. This actually extends the function of the group (I believe in a good way) to not just "The Buddhist Community" - which, it was put forward, is a diverse and thusly difficult group to navigate through. In so doing, there is a great capacity to change our community and provide a venue for a greatly needed dialogue around death and dying (and by extension living etc.) that encompases diverse religious, spiritual and social groups.
Perhaps to consider for our vission statment:
We envision a venue in which diverse approaches to death and dying (or hospice and palliative care) can be accessed, discussed, researched, and promoted regardless of religious, spiritual, socical or economic orientation.
and/or
We seek to achieve this through providing a network of/for care givers, researchers, and educators that are devoted to promoting palliative and hospice care to the diverse community of the GTA.
-these two statments perhaps can be related to a vission stament, and not a mission statment. It would be fine to have two -
The vission looks to what we want to change or see manifest in the community we wish to affect, the mission is more directed towards our interests and our approach (which would be more focused on the diversity found in Buddhism)
Helen did mention that we can start brainstorming about what to actually DO to get this off the ground. I liked the idea of setting 4 lectures/workshops next year and just rolling with it - there is also a significant amount of networking and general resarch behind who is doing what and where to be done.
I volunteer to organize one lecture in the Hamilton/Oakville area:)
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