Launch of the Scottish Compassionate Communities Toolkit

Launch of the Scottish Compassionate Communities Toolkit

Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief and the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care have launched the Scottish Compassionate Communities Toolkit. The toolkit is a collection of resources for people wishing to make their local community more supportive of people going through difficult times that can come with death, dying, loss and care.

The toolkit brings together work from across Scotland and beyond, providing ideas to help people develop their own projects addressing local experiences of death, dying, loss and care.

The toolkit includes sections exploring...

Getting started

Some ideas on starting a new project and gathering support for local action from across the community.

Creating opportunities

How might you create opportunities for people to talk about, plan for, give support and receive support relating to ill health, death, dying and bereavement?

Encouraging supportive environments

How might you encourage institutions (eg schools and workplaces) and neighbourhoods to have cultures/structures/networks which enable people to give and receivesupport in the face of death, dying and bereavement?

Increasing knowledge and skills

How might you increase people's knowledge, skills and information, enabling them to respond to and support each other through the difficult times that can come with death,dying and bereavement?

The toolkit can be accessed here: Scottish Compassionate Communities Toolkit