Whether you’re elderly, disabled, a new Canadian or socially isolated, help and friendship is on the way as Windsor and Essex County launches a new kind of community care system aimed at improving the quality of life of local residents.
Piggy-backing off existing agencies and services, local residents will be urged to volunteer their time, skills and passions to help create healthier communities by engaging with and helping their neighbours attain a better quality of life.
“We want to connect the skills and talents our communities already have,” said Deborah Sattler, project manager of the Windsor-Essex Compassion Care Community that formally launches later this month. Developed over the past two-and-a-half years, she said it’s a new model to ensure nobody falls through the cracks of the current health care focused system.
“To our knowledge, all of it together doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world,” Sattler told reporters at a news conference at the Hospice of Windsor and Essex County.
Pastor Tom Harmon, of Kingsville Community Church, said there are many local seniors who live in social isolation who “don’t know where to turn to when they need help.”
Following the campaign’s June 23 launch in Windsor, Leamington, Tecumseh, Lakeshore and Kingsville, anyone needing help or wanting to volunteer can simply call WECCC at 519-974-2581, ext. 2420, or email at info@weccc.ca.
“A remarkable thing is happening in Windsor and Essex,” said Sattler.
More to come.
