Kathy Matusiak 3/18/24 Kathy Matusiak 3/18/24

Are you a Senior who lives in or near Hastings County? Join our Youth-Senior Gift Exchange!

As part of this year’s campaign to showcase wonderful community initiatives across Canada, this month, Compassionate Community Care is sharing with you an exciting example of senior-youth involvement. A great way to get young people engaged in the community is to motivate them to volunteer with seniors as part of a Youth-Senior Gift Exchange. What does that mean? Weekly visits from a youth volunteer to listen, learn, and befriend a senior in the community for them to listen, learn and provide practical skills to assist the elderly they visit.

Join St John the Compassionate Mission and St Mary Refuge for this wonderful opportunity!

To sign up or for more information please send an email to outreach@stmarysrefuge.org

More Stories and Articles

Featured

Screen Shot 2025-12-30 at 3.32.13 PM.png

Dec 31, 2025

New Year’s Recap: Support Us Into 2026!

Dec 31, 2025

Nov 30, 2025

A Great Call Leads to The Best Results

Nov 30, 2025

CCC has had a number of calls on our helpline, 1-855-675-8749, which is free & confidential, open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Through this line we provide advice, help, and support regarding euthanasia& assisted suicide prevention &/or end-of-life treatment issues. We wanted to share about some calls that we received through the helpline which bring hope for you, our supporters, especially into the final months of this year.

We got a call recently about a man, 95 y/o, who was diagnosed with throat cancer a few days ago and chose to die by MA*D, booked for to die on a Tuesday morning (within 5 days of diagnosis and hospital admission date).

His daughter-in-law called CCC. We spoke over the phone a few times, emailed her info and articles, shared our resources info/overview, texted throughout day. She shared it with her family, her husband and his sister — both the father's POAs.

She informed me her FIL has since changed his mind and was "confused" and decided he's more concerned about after death.

Her latest texts to me:

"Yes. But he was speaking more to me anyway about his lack of awareness of the state of his soul afterward, Separation from God, etc

And..

"I had given my husband information about Compassionate Care, a brochure or flyer, a week ago. He passed that on to his sister, and apparently she had been looking at the site on her own yesterday. She was pretty well prepared for today."

Once the doctors were told the patient decided against receiving MAiD, they wanted to do an assessment of his mental competency after he changed his mind. The family shared they did not need another evaluation for him having changed his mind.

This elderly man is currently in palliative care now back in his residence. The outcome is, because of CCC he is alive, along with his family’s presence and advocacy. We are grateful CCC exists and are ready to help.

Nov 30, 2025