Compassionate Ottawa is a community movement that works to change the way we think about living well, dying, death and grief and to strengthen the capacity of people to care for each other in times of serious illness and loss. We passionately believe that everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy wellness and self-respect until the end of life.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program

CHPCP works to bring together a wide range of expertise to help coordinate care, assist with planning, develop performance measures, provide education and collaborate with health service providers to improve the quality of life for individuals and their loved ones at end-of-life.

Hospice Care Ottawa

Hospice Care Ottawa is a community-based charitable organization that offers palliative and end-of-life programs and services to people living in the City of Ottawa.  All services are offered at no charge to clients and their families.

Bereaved Families of Ottawa

BFO helps and supports people in the community who are dealing with grief that stems from many different types of losses, such as loss of child; loss of spouse; loss of parent, relative, sibling or friend; and more.

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EVENTS

Advance Care Planning – Timbertwalk Retirement Community
Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant Recognition Event
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Advance Care Planning – Ottawa Public Library
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Advance Care Planning – Ottawa Public Library
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Grief and Bereavement Workshop – Unitarian House
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What We Do

Advance Care Planning
Conversations with Leaders
Grief and Bereavement
Together Ottawa Ensemble
Sponsor Projects

Where We Work

Our Schools
Our Workplaces
Our Faith Communities
Our Communities At Large

Our News

  • Showing Up For Grief

    A new resource from the Death Literacy Institute, “Showing Up for Grief” offers simple tips that normalize grief as a natural part of life. Increase your knowledge on grief for everyday use. Booklet [...]

  • Survival of the Kindest Podcast Feature

    Two Compassionate Ottawa volunteers, Jim Nininger and Mary Lou Kelley, were recently featured on the podcast “Survival of the Kindest”! The host, Julian Abel, talked with them about the history of Compassionate Ottawa, its [...]

  • Public Health Palliative Care International Newsletter

    We are so honored to be recognized by the Public Health Palliative Care International. Here is what they said about Compassionate Ottawa in their December 2022 Newsletter. Jim Nininger, Co-Founder of Compassionate Ottawa Compassionate [...]

Compassionate Ottawa is committed to fighting exclusion and racism which has been present for centuries and has been acutely reported on in the last several years. Through our activities and representations, we will contribute to the dismantling of systemic oppression and exclusion of all groups that experience discrimination. Compassionate Ottawa is a learning organization, aware that striving for inclusion is a process. We are reaching out to communities to help us learn to be truly inclusive.

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